This customer had relocated and moved into a new home.  Instead of moving with their old dining set, they chose to order a new set from us.  While they awaited the new furniture, they used a folding table.  Needless to say, once the new furniture arrived it brought the room to life.  Don’t you think it is a beautiful transformation?

When you strip away all of the marketing and commercialism of the season, it’s really all about spending time with the people you care about.  Dinners, brunches, games, long talks over coffee, catching up while enjoying some football or a parade are all on docket for the upcoming months.  Notice how most of the most precious moments take place around the table?

Holiday Entertaining

If you’re hosting the festivities this year and are looking to flush out your dinning room furniture, then you need to have a look at the wonderful specimens of Amish craftsmanship we offer here at AmishTables.com.  Not only are our tables made by some of the best furniture artisans in the country and with the finest materials, they are also extremely functional.  Add leaves as you need to expand your table to fit everybody that shows up this season.  With expandable tables that can fit up to twenty-two people, we’ve got your whole clan covered.

Heirloom Quality Tailored to Your Needs

Our dining room tables are heirloom quality and will become a part of the family memories you make over the years.  Just because Amish craftsman use centuries old techniques to make their tables, it doesn’t mean that they aren’t stylish and perfect for almost any interior design look you’re after.  Our selection encompasses a wide variety, so no matter what you’re looking for we have the table for you.  Here are just some of the different options that are available on the different tables:

• Top Shapes:  Rectangular, Square, Boat, Round or Oval.
• Seating Capacity:  You can chose between oval tables that seat six all the way up to our monster twenty-two person expandable rectangular table.
• Hardwood:  Several versions of oak, cherry, maple, hickory and walnut depending on the table.
• Legs:  Customize the look of your table with Regular, Shaker, Round Shaker, Hooiser, Fluted and Farmer legs.
• Edge styles:  Various tables are available with Beveled, Chamfer, Mission, Ogee and Roundover edges.

No matter what size, shape or style of Amish dining room table you select, you’re going to get a product made to the highest quality standards with the best materials, right here in the United States.  They are all made from slow grown North American hardwoods and constructed to withstand the test of time.

Don’t worry about the abuse that your family, guests, kids and pets will inevitably inflict on these tables.  Our tables can last you decades and since they are made from real wood can be refinished and repaired if they get worn, dented, chewed on or anything else you can throw at it!  Don’t worry about any of that; just sit back and enjoy the times with your loved ones around your new Amish table.

While homeschool families utilize the whole world from home to yard to neighborhood and beyond, as their classroom, at some point even the freest thinking parent-teacher must dedicate a room or sections of a room to the home school. Logically, home schooling families quite often use the dining room table as command central. Even “out of home” schooling families use their dining room table for homework assignments, craft projects or as the family gathering place.

A visit to many of the home schooling forums shows one consistent wish from many of the home school mom-teachers – a giant dining room table for them to work at. Dining room tables like the ones crafted from solid woods by the Amish provide high quality, high endurance, and wear tolerant spacious work places for large family classrooms. Add an armoire or dresser dedicated to supplies, some sturdy solid wood chairs and quite functionally a dining room is converted into a one room school house. Some great tips gathered from these forums on how to best utilize the dining room as a classroom are:

1. Keep the table covered with a protecting pad and a plastic table cloth. The Amish have available elite custom pads to add many years to the table top. This investment will pay off after years of small hands pressing pencils into wooden surfaces or science experiments gone awry.

2. Cut a piece of white board to fit the table top as a giant dry erase surface. Local home improvement stores carry very low cost sheets of white laminate paneling. They can even cut them to size. Place these panels on top of the elite custom pads and pass out the dry erase markers. Kids become very enthusiastic at the chance to write on furniture! This also saves on paper product costs and consumption.

3. Since most families can’t afford to give up their dining room as an eatery why not redecorate the dining room with the theme of your studies? This is particularly fun for unit study type curriculum. Africa this month? Why not coordinate the napkins? Add some giraffes and elephants as center pieces. There are very inexpensive ways to keep the flow of your home while providing a homemade education to your children. Oceans next month? Why not a giant fishbowl as a living centerpiece? Just remember you may not want to serve fish sticks for awhile!

4. If you have opted to top your dining room table with a glass top why not use pictures under the glass as study points? One section of the dining room table can be algebraic equations, another section geographic pictures and another spelling words.

5. The second most desired item observed in the home school forums was an organizational element such as a bookcase, armoire, china cabinet, hutch, dresser or chest of drawers. With the well built, solid wood, dove tailed construction of Amish furniture it is easy to find sturdy organizing elements that match the woods, stains and designs of the Amish built dining room table. Sturdy shelves or cabinets for books, supplies and items like nature collections is important, no matter how small the space.

6. Be sure you have good windows and or good lighting in the dining room. Poor lighting makes the eyes work harder and the child grows weary faster.

7. Do a daily clean up of the dining room. Keep it a focal point of your home. Never let the table become only a place to collect things that need to be put away. A few minutes a day will pay off in peace and function. Keep the room a place that inspires good family meals when appropriate and good creative thinking always.

8. Remember that while Homeschooling is about “togetherness” it does not mean you have to be tethered to them as they work. By utilizing the dining room you are more able to multi-task why the children are working on school. They will know you are right there, in the near-by kitchen or living area but they will learn the much desired art of independence. Homeschooling children are best known for there self reliance, and if you can be multi-tasking and keeping a watchful eye the house and school run smoother.

Inside everyone lurks a closet artist but thanks to the storage opportunities created with Amish furniture that closet can be a custom built armoire wardrobe. The hobby of producing art and creating crafts is a valuable stress relieving activity. Whether as homemakers, students, professionals or laborers, we are usually called upon to produce but not called upon to use our imaginations and creative parts of our brains.

Using both our minds and our hands to create simple artistic projects at home we can enjoy healthy therapeutic results. Even the most primitive artistic endeavors hold the ability to help you relax, use your creativity and focus on something besides the daily grind. Arts and crafts can also become a way for some to make extra cash and to create memorable and thoughtful gifts. 

Many times we do not start projects because we dread the mess and clean up to follow. By organizing your materials in well labeled, stackable, easily spotted, easily removed boxes and containers it makes clean up and re-organization a very simple and time efficient job:

- If you do projects that are a bit messy such as painting, remember to protect the bottoms of the drawers of your Amish armoire wardrobe. By placing sheets of easily wiped sheet liners or even shallow trays or baking sheets inside the drawers you can protect your treasured furniture piece from damage.

-  Not only using a lift out tray for messy paint supplies but for a special project like a beaded jewelry kit, you are also organizing your unfinished projects into an easy to lift out container.

- Notebook binders with poly sheet protectors make ideal storage for project ideas, small half-done projects, brush organization, etc. Use index tabs to identify.

The best way to protect the durable ARESISTOVAR finish on your dining room table is to invest in elite custom dining room pads. An inexpensive and impromptu way to protect your Amish dining room table’s work surface is plain white butcher’s paper. The large rolls of paper are inexpensive, fit right inside the closet and you can cut off exactly the length you need for protecting your work surface. Best of all kids love to do projects, from finger paints to tracing their entire bodies, on this large blank canvas.

The Amish built doors are strong and can be utilized to add to your storage space. Wall organizers can be mounted inside to hold paper and fabrics. A small café curtain rod can also be mounted after sliding on your spools of ribbon for easy cutting. Hang a measuring stick next to it for measuring length and a pair of scissors on twine so you are never without your cutting tool. Tea cup hooks or C-hooks can be placed inside to hold other items. By hanging a picture wire across one door interior you can even hang large and cumbersome sketch pads over it.

Remember to use common sense before mounting or attaching anything to your heirloom furniture. Also remember that although your doors are ruggedly built all hinges have a weight limit.

 

Most people don’t attempt to craft at home simply because they feel they don’t have the space to store and work on hobby or crafting materials. In reality, you really don’t need an entire room dedicated to your favorite art projects; just a simple, dual-purpose, working surface like your large solid wood Amish dining room table (with custom pads to protect the surface) and a well built Amish storage wardrobe. These handsome and concealing armoires are superb for organizing and storing the materials you need to truly bring out your “closet artist”. Your well contained “art room” can be arranged inside this armoire, wardrobe or closet to house and hide the craft tools and supplies for your favorite hobbies.

Well hidden inside the beauty of an Amish built wardrobe can lay an afternoon of enjoyment. By using a solid wood Amish armoire with fully adjustable shelves, fully extended or underside drawer slides and well built drawers you can have everything within reach at a moment’s notice. Organization is the single key to the success of your art closet:

- A simple kitchen cabinet Lazy Susan makes a quick spin to find your favorite color of acrylics or just the jar of buttons you need. These rotating cabinet organizers can be found in single or double tiered styles.

- Inexpensive but well labeled storage boxes, plastic shoe boxes or wooden drawers can be utilized to organize paints, brushes, raffia, scissors, ribbon, twine, markers, glues and similar supplies.

- Magazine holders can hold scrapbooking papers, craft books, patterns and projects you are working on in neat, easily viewed rows. 

- Try organizing like things together for optimal access.

This armoire craft room is also the perfect spot for storing gift-wrapping supplies for gifting your creations:

- The drawers are wide enough to hold rolls of paper and simple containers can be filled with all the necessary tools like tape, scissors, and ribbon.

- Magazine holders can organized new and recycled gift bags while a clear plastic box leaves gift tags in clear view.   

For a nice basic dining room table that expands quickly and easily, you might want to choose Abbies Special Table. This table expands on top of the legs rather than moving the legs apart making it easy to add up to four extra leaves. The leaves can be stored inside the table itself.

If you like the look of a round table, but want the convenience of expandability, then you might like the Arts and Crafts Table. This 48-54″ round table can be expanded with up to three extra leaves to make accommodating guests easier while remaining small for everyday use.

Single pedestal tables can also be expanded. The Pinnacle Royal Table comes in both a 42″ and 48″ base size, but can be expanded up to three leaves for additional seating space. As with all the Amish Furniture Home tables, you can choose the wood type and stain to match your décor.

When you need the flexibility to accommodate up to 22 people at a time then you might want to take a look at the Shaker Mission Table. This table can be expanded with up to 13 removable leaves, yet can stay as small as 60″ in length at its base. You can choose from rectangular or oval table top style.