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 day but the bedroom holds our clothing, shoes, jewelry and other accessories. In the humble bedroom we begin our day – whether at a walk-in closet door or a sit-down vanity table. The room most likely holds dirty laundry and dry cleaning, at least for a time.

Many of us grace our rooms with a quiet reading spot or even a television for late night movies or early bits of news shows. Perhaps our rooms are even mini-libraries, for reading books, magazines and newspapers. Some of us have even placed a writing desk for home organization or correspondence on our laptops. Pet owners allow visits from pets and parents have visits from offspring.  The bedroom may even hold storage for linens for the bed. Lastly, the bedroom may be you last refuge for privacy. Indeed, if you were to stop and evaluate your bedroom it is evident that it is in fact the command center of your life.

THE BED:

Perhaps only the sofa or couch competes for the amount of time we spend on a bed. This amount of time justifies the purchase of a great mattress and bed. With a solid wood frame, hand-built by Amish designers and craftsmen guarantee a life time of solidly built attractiveness. Elegant but practical, these beds are built to cradle you in comfort and then pass down as an heirloom investment. From Mission style to Modern these bedroom suite designs are endless in style and design.

It is recommended to buy the biggest and the best bed and mattress you can afford and house.

CLOTHNG STORAGE:

While it would be great to live in world where minimal possessions, especially clothing, were practical, even the Amish realize in the contemporary world it is not. While it is recommended to streamline your clothing in order to function more efficiently each morning the total elimination of excess can be impossible, so we must have furniture to help organize.

Wardrobes, closets, armoires, chests of drawers, lingerie chests, dressers all are built to match your high end solid wood bed. All are available in oaks, maple, cherry, hickory and a variety of stain options. After you ruthlessly scale down your wardrobe from a messy assemblage of chaos know that there is upscale storage available that incorporates different sized drawers, various folding shelves and hanging options.

MIRRORS:

Cheval mirrors are the best friend you always wanted. A solid wood framed swinging, full-length looking glass that makes a great accountability partner – one who will always let you know the truth about your appearance, good or bad.

DRESSING OR VANITY TABLES:

Having a central spot to focus on you as you begin your day can make or break your look. Dressing for success is more than buying the right outfit. It is stopping to survey the details and to polish the surface. Solid wood, easy care, ARESISTOVAR protected surfaces make the Amish vanity ideal.

NIGHTSTANDS:

The most personal piece of bedroom furniture may not be the bed. The most individualized storage facility is the bedside stand or night table. Inside the nightstands is things that only you know why you need, from books and spare change to mints and reading glasses, the nightstand is a private world of odds and ends just for you. The finish on the native hardwoods by Northern Indiana artisans will even forgive a late night cup of tea spill.  

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Armoire – An early french term for a cabinet, wardrobe or closet that is usually tall. The armoire originally was used for storing weaponry in medieval times rather than clothing. Usually double doors cover the interior which contains shelves, open space or hanging apparatuses.  

Wardrobe - A wardrobe is a cabinet intended primarily for the storage of clothing. British vocabulary sometimes gave it the name “oakley” because the closets were constructed predominently from oak. A hanging cupboard, the wardrobe evolved from a room-sized walk in with shelves and lockers to what we know today. A wardrobe can be a huge, cumbersome and highly ornate cabinet or a smaller more diminuitive storage unit. First constructed from oak, later walnut became the wood of choice for many wardrobes.

 In Europe many homes were never designed with a built-in closet. The first wardrobes were patterned after the armor bearing closets known as armoires. The wardrobe usually has double doors, carried to the floor and usually covering the drawers at the base. Inside there may be hanging rods as well as sliding shelves and may have mirrors.

Cheffonier or Chiffonier –  Some definitions describe a chiffonier as a tall set of drawers while others say it is a piece of furniture that is smaller than a sideboard with the whole of the front enclosed by doors and typically sits wide and low; a sort of buffet. There was often a shelf, raised and hosting a pierced brass gallery at its back. The doors were usually panelled and even edged with brass-beading. A chiffoniers feet were either pads or claws, or gilded sphinxes.

The French translation means “rag-gatherer” or “rag-picker”, suggesting that it was originally built to receive odds and ends that had no other storage place in the home. Cheffoniers date from the Empire style of furniture in England and were built of the favorite wood of that era, the rosewood.

Chifferobe or Chifforobe – A hybrid piece of furniture built to function as a closet in the twentieth century. Popular more in the southern United States than anywhere else, chifferobes were first seen advertised in the 1908 Sears and Roebucks Catalogue. The product description described the chifferobe as a modern invention. Many passages of popular southern literature (To Kill a Mockingbird, Wise Blood and The Ballad of Sad Café, to mention a few) use the furniture known as a chifferobe in their settings. The name chifforobe came from blending the words chiffonier and wardrobe.

Traditionally the chifferobe combines both a long space for hanging clothes like a wardrobe along with a set of drawers like a chest of drawers. Most designs host a side by side function, with closet down one and the drawers on the other.

The Amish carpenters of Northern Indiana build custom made closets for your home without ever tracking in a single footprint or leaving a shred of saw dust. With solid hardwoods and dovetailed drawers these wardrobes and armoires are available for living rooms, offices and bedrooms in oak, cherry, maple and hickory, along with a wide variety of stains. The interiors can even be personalized. For the nursery or child’s bedroom the Amish have designed an armoire changing table just their size.