Posts Tagged ‘Chests’

Creating the Happiest Place in Your House with a Disney Themed Bedroom

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Solid built Amish bedroom and children’s furniture is the perfect foundation for creating a childhood full of Disney memories. In 1955 Walt Disney looked at a blank canvas of real estate and saw the fantasy world the globe has grown to love. Just as you were as a child your child is captured by the [...]

How To Sell Your Collectibles and Heirlooms: Valuable and Smart Tips

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

While we may collect things from sports cards to furniture simply for the enjoyment of the hunting and the gathering, most of us collect knowing that there is a chance if needs arose, we could sell that collection. Many a handcrafted Amish built bookcase holds the world’s most prized collectibles. It is a fact that [...]

Your Bedroom: Life’s Command Center

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

Bedrooms are wondrous rooms that hold many functions and events – many more functions than just sleep. Statistically we spend the majority of our days – perhaps actually nights – inside the bed chamber. We  not only hope that it will provide us a safe and comfortable place to sleep and rejuvenate for the next [...]

A Brief History of the Evolution of Chest or Chests of Drawers

Monday, October 13th, 2008

 Today the Amish craft solid wood chest of drawers as stand alone pieces or part of a bedroom suite. The name Chests of Drawers is literally derived from the furniture piece that was a chest or trunk; a wooden box for storing clothing linens, books, documents and valuables of any kind. The earliest forms were [...]

Amish Hope Cedar Chests and Trunks; A Part of History

Monday, September 15th, 2008

The cedar chest, hope chest or trunk may well be as many furniture historians believe, the first true piece of furniture. From it, most certainly, evolved the chest of drawers. The box called a trunk or chest was a common sense and practical structure. This wooden framed box was built to store and move personal [...]

The Versatility of Chests and Armoires

Friday, March 14th, 2008

When you think of a chest of drawers or armoire, you might be thinking that these are only useful as pieces of bedroom furniture. While these are great and functional pieces in any bedroom that can be used for clothes, lingerie, accessories, linens, or towels, they can also offer wonderful amounts of storage and space [...]