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It’s 2009 Super Bowl kick-off time in Tampa, Florida. This is your time to shine by creating a memorable at home football themed party around your Amish crafted spacious dining room table, coveted entertainment center and comfortable living room suite. This year’s gathering has many options for themes that can be used to build on […]

In a society that changes trends as fast as they can microwave dinner it is refreshing to see that Amish built Arts & Crafts and American Mission style furniture is as modern and contemporary as it was at its conception in the latter Victorian 1800’s. Once done in historically dark stains and heavy tapestries now […]

   All designs are contemporary and modern when they are first created and enter into the mainstream, but the Modern Movement evolved at the turn of the 20th century and came to symbolize a philosophy in design that endures over a century later. The suffocating clutter and gilding of the Victorian era was coming in to […]

 
Because of the solidly built classic designs of Amish furniture builders the furniture they create blend in well with antique and vintage furnishings and décor accessories. Many antique collectors have actually passed up the original, more delicate piece to have a custom made version from the Amish because their family needs to live with the […]

Amish furniture designers and crafters use the basic and handsome mortise and tenon construction in many of their classic designs. Mission styles as well as many Arts and Crafts era tables, chairs, chests and cabinetry all includes the timeless mortise and tenon joint. Ancient carpenters knew that the mortise and tenon joint was both uncomplicated […]