Posted on 02 May 2010

All of our Amish wood furniture feature English Dovetail Drawer boxes and are available with a variety of drawer glide and hardware options. Most sets are available in Oak, 1/4 Sawn Oak, Cherry and Maple. Custom sizing can also be done on most pieces. All of our beds, including our mission style beds, feature solid wood side rails and slats eliminating the need for metal mattress frames.
Cross slats are tongue and grooved or doweled into the side rails. This construction makes our beds extremely sturdy and eliminates swaying. This attention to detail and craftsmanship is apparent in all our Amish bedroom furniture, ensuring that they will last for generations. Additionally, our beds will provide 8″-9″ or storage area between the side rails and your floor providing an ideal place to store containers for winter/summer clothing. We at OnlineAmishFurniture.com are committed to providing you the highest quality Amish furniture at the best values. What sets us apart from our competitors, such as Amishoutletstore, is our customer service and endless furniture options. We offer you several options in terms of staining, finishing, wood, and even customization of most pieces we sell. Can’t find what you are looking for? Contact us and we will be happy to assist you in finding exactly what you need. We stock Amish pieces not available on our homepage and we are continually receiving new items, so don’t hesitate to send us an email if you need something specific for your home! We offer a large variety of leg, pedestal and trestle base tables.
Features include:1″ thick solid top, geared or wooden slide mechanisms (depending on table type), your choice of 6 table top edges and your choice of 9 table top shapes. We also offer a large assortment of Amish gliders style furniture for every room in your home. Our Arts and Crafts Mission is handcrafted with quality in mind. Unlike today’s mass produced imported disposable furniture, tremendous care is taken to create solid wood pieces that will remain in your family for many generations. See what others are saying about their purchases on our Amish furniture page.
Our Testimonials furniture is available in 20 stains (including two new incredible oil based stains), Cherry furniture in 7 stains and Maple furniture in 5 stains. Custom staining to match your existing pieces is also available.
We also offer a large assortment of Oak and 1/4 Sawn Oak, including mission style pieces as well as other Amish bedroom suites. These quality Amish furnishings are made the old fashioned way – by hand. Care is taken to create furniture that is built to last.
Posted on 28 April 2010

With the kind of self contained and isolated communities that the Amish master craftsmen live in, earlier it was not possible for a lot of people to actually buy Amish furniture. The Amish, due their beliefs and practices, limit their interaction and contact with mainstream communities and have only the barest minimum business dealings with them. However, now with online buying of all kinds of merchandise becoming a common practice and a convenient option, the possibility of selling Amish handcrafted furniture online was explored. Generally a non Amish dealer or facilitator who would procure the furniture, run and maintain the website which sells it online and deal with the wholesale buying and retail selling of the furniture.
So this makes available the benefit of being able to purchase Amish made furniture online, which makes it so much more accessible to so many more people than ever before. There are many websites that deal exclusively with Amish made furniture; which one can browse by different items of furniture, by the room that you want furnished (say bedroom, dining room, living room etc.), by the style (Shaker style, Mission style, Queen Anne style etc.) or by the kind of wood that is used (oak, maple, cherry, pine, etc.) What these websites are able to do is offer you exclusive, solid, hard wearing, extremely durable furniture that has the sort of classic and timeless design style that never goes out of fashion. You can browse and buy top quality furniture from the comfort of your computer chair!
Since selling Amish furniture online reduces the cost of having a bricks and mortar outlet for the retailer, that cost saving can be passed on to the ultimate consumer or purchaser, which is you! You also have the option of browsing literally thousands of individual pieces of furniture so that you can find exactly what you want. And in the rare event that you cannot find exactly what you want, you can customize your order as per your particular requirement. Many online Amish stores offer the option of having the Amish furniture customized to the purchaser’s requirement.
And Amish made furniture is not just about basic pieces of traditional furniture. Now you can buy entertainment centers, billiard and pool tables, office furniture, children’s furniture, bar stools, and all manner of home accents for the home and garden as well. In Amish furniture is now available a diversity like never before! And often you can take advantage of online sales as well
Amish online stores also often offer the option of purchasing other traditional items made the old fashioned way, such as quilts, baskets, toys etc. Amish quilts are a thing of beauty which can be a joy forever, made the painstaking way with no short cuts. Amish toys again are a delight in this day and age where children’s toys chests are overrun by Chinese plastic and battery operated noise makers. These Amish made toys are a throwback to more relaxed times when people had the time to create beauty for children.
Posted on 18 April 2010

As a place of rest and refuge, your bedroom needs furniture that reflects peace and security. Amish furniture that is solidly constructed can provide just that. The Amish craft their furniture by hand, employing the best techniques for making traditional furniture known today. Furniture-making techniques are passed on from generation to generation, as fathers and sons work side by side to build furniture that will endure for many lifetimes. Craftsmen use only the best woods, chosen for their superior quality and beautiful grain. When considering pieces for your bedroom, know that every genuine piece of Amish furniture is of solid wood construction, with no particle board or veneers.
Amish furniture is a big investment, but its quality will far exceed your expectations. Amish furniture should be made using the highest quality construction materials and techniques. The piece should be crafted of solid wood, and this includes solid wood backs on upright pieces such as dressers. The most common wood choices include oak, quartersawn oak, cherry, maple, hickory, and sometimes pine. The best quality hardwoods will always be kiln-dried, which assures proper moisture content. This will prevent any splitting and cracking for the life of the piece.
Whether you are looking for an entire bedroom set or a single piece, it’s important to examine the construction carefully. Keep in mind that the Amish are renowned for their handcrafted furniture, using generations-old techniques to build solid and enduring works. Be sure that pieces such as dressers, nightstands, chests of drawers, armoires, and chifferobes have drawers that will hold up under rigorous daily use. Make sure the dovetail joints holding the fronts and backs of drawer boxes together have very tight tolerances. Something to remember here is that English dovetail joints provide more storage capacity than French ones. Also remember to inspect the drawer slides to be sure they run smoothly in both directions.
Your bed will be the centerpiece of any bedroom set and thus should be crafted with solid-wood side rails and slats, which will eliminate the need for metal mattress frames. Cross slats need to be tongue-and-grooved or doweled into the side rails. This method of construction will make the bed extremely sturdy and will eliminate any swaying. For even more superior strength, look for headboards and footboards that are constructed with full mortise and tenon joinery. The most common styles for beds are Mission, Shaker, Sleigh, or Traditional. But luckily, true Amish-made furniture can be custom-ordered to fit your exact needs.
When deciding on a quality piece of heirloom Amish bedroom furniture, you also need to consider the finish. The best craftsmen will spend time sanding down the wood in several different steps. This ensures a smooth surface inside and out. Certain shops will finish each piece of furniture in a five-step process, using a top-grade catalyzed finish so strong it’ll stand up to acetone nail polish remover. The best pieces will have surfaces that are finished and sealed—from top to side to underside—which will protect your investment for a lifetime.
Posted on 31 January 2010

The Amish furniture production have been very popular among the americans for many years, and no wonder about that. If you are an aware parent and don’t want to expose your little one to toxic colors and synthetic impregnated woods, then the Amish baby furniture could be something for you. The Amish tradition forbid them to use any artificial substances such as paints and lacquers that are poisonous to humans, and they don’t use electricity so their products are really totally handcrafted. Taking big pride in their craftsmanship, they often handpick the material for their furniture, so the quality of the material is solid and good.
And owning a Amish peace of furniture, you are sure that the piece is made in the country by humanly acceptable conditions, and not by Chinese or Indian child labour, like so many of our daily products are. You are supporting a peaceful community in the States, not supporting long distance import products that are polluting the planet with carbon dioxide. So, extra ethical and environmental points for you, if you’re buying an Amish piece of furniture!
The material is often oak, cherry, maple and other sturdy woods. There won’t be a particleboard, fibreboard or hard-pressed timber in sight. Generations of craftsmanship has developed a simple and beautiful outlook on the Amish furniture, and are usually blending in, in most homes and environments. The crib is maybe the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of Amish baby furniture. The design is simple and functional with natural color, and often you can add a drawer to keep under the crib for storage. But there are other really excellent baby furniture the Amish are building.
The Amish made high chairs for babies are a piece of furniture that are very useful, as well as the usual high quality craftsmanship to rest your eyes at.
They are basically like the usual high chairs available in stores that has a small table attached to the seat, but the back of it is often made of wood sticks rather than solid back rests.
Often Amish furniture is made to maximize space and very thought out design-wise. The changing table has drawers at the lower part of the table, where you can store diapers and other belongings for your baby.
If you want your baby’s room to be furnitured with Amish pieces there are a lot to choose from, like rocking chairs, wooden potty chairs and rocking horses.
Some people have creating lovely interiors in their homes with Amish furnitures mixed with more modern designed furniture.
What about the prize range? Well, you could think that handcrafted furniture like that are really costy, but the prizes are quite modest, also that part of the Amish philosophy, not to be greedy. You can furniture your home without getting ruined, and that with all the features that comes with them, environmental, ethical, and good looking!
And, of course, there are furniture for the rest of the house too, if you want to pick out a piece for your living-, dining- or bedroom
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