This post was updated on November 15, 2019. A fireplace can act as the focal point in just about any room of your home. How you choose to decorate the fireplace mantel and the wall that disguises the chimney can balance the room and further establish the fireplace as a focal point. Related Posts Space Saver: Corner Fireplace This blog post was updated on October 29, 2018 with new corner fireplace suggestions. We love a… Warm Your Heart and Hearth with Two Easy Fireplace Mantel Styles
Note: This blog post was originally written in November 2015. While we no longer sell Amish-made, solid wood humidors, the information in this post is still helpful for seasoning a new humidor. The use of a finely calibrated cigar humidor will ensure your favorite stogies never go stale, keep their intended taste and aroma, and are ready to smoke when you’re ready to enjoy them. [Tweet “Read this before you store a single cigar!”] Related Posts 8… How to Season a New Cigar Humidor
Diving through piles of leaves, stretching for the shiniest apple, inhaling the cinnamon and pumpkin spice in the air — fall captivates your senses like no other season. The Amish have long practiced these kind of simple fall traditions, each growing in meaning as the years pass. Take your family for a whirl with these four fall traditions before you’re snowed in for the winter! Related Posts Best Contemporary Furniture Award of 2024 Goes to Amish Furniture Store? You read the headline correctly. An Amish… Plain Pleasures: Fall Traditions inspired by Amish Heritage
This post was updated on October 21, 2019. Broken links were fixed and some minor changes were made to the copy. Sure, you can look at bunk beds as the ultimate tower of fun for the little ones. But why not use the escapism inherent in bunking up to your advantage? Here, some very grown-up ways to make bunk beds a part of your home’s charm: Related Posts Making Room to Grow: Furniture for a Shared… Get Vertical: Bunk Beds that Take Space Saving to New Heights
3 Beloved Digs, 1 Voice to Listen to Do you think you know what your dining room style is? We’ve made it easier to recognize by helping you to listen to your gut, not the label. We’ll show you the picture of the room before identifying the style. A little tricky? Maybe, but we think it’ll help you decide on a style that is genuine to you, not to a preconceived notion. Word of caution: The photo that inspires you most… Which Zillow-Approved Dining Room Speaks to You?
In the Amish community, talking about “the Yoder brothers” is a bit like us English folk (as they refer to us) talking about “the Jones boys” or “the Smith sisters.” Related Posts Meet the Amish Furniture Makers: The Mt. Eaton Collection The Mt. Eaton Collection Meet the Amish Furniture makers at the Amish woodshop that crafts our Mt. Eaton Collection – one Read more Meet the Amish Furniture Makers: Mark & Sons Mark & Sons A… Amish Furniture Makers: Meet the The Yoder Brothers
This blog post was updated on February 4, 2019 with additional Murphy bed designs. Older homes are notorious for their compact, often complicated little bedrooms. Don’t let layout discourage you from creating a multi-functional room to use for exercise, overnight guests or–with the example below– an amazing work space. Read on, and see how Murphy Beds are a surprising solution to any number of bedroom bummers! Related Posts 5 Ways A Murphy Bed Saves You… Why We Love Murphy Beds (And You Should, Too!)
Your chosen color scheme is en pointe, your traditional bedroom set is positively sumptuous, and now your master bedroom could stand in proud company with a five-star hotel room. Only . . . you don’t particularly want a hotel room. You want a home. Your home. Let our designers show you how to lift a traditional bedroom set out of anonymity. Related Posts Outdoor Bar and Dining Furniture: What’s Hot in 2024 Outdoor dining and bar furniture is very popular in 2024. In… Bed and Bored? How Designers Revitalize a Traditional Bedroom Set
The Big List of Shed Landscape Ideas What do you use (or wish you could use) your outdoor storage shed for? An artist’s getaway? A gardening or tool shed? A spare space for guests to catnap? Or how about a child’s playhouse? Whatever its function, you’ll find a wonderful way to heighten its beauty (or conceal its, ahem, more rustic nature) in this comprehensive series of suggestions to landscape a shed. Related Posts Outdoor Bar and Dining Furniture: What’s Hot… The Big List of Shed Landscape Ideas
This blog post was updated on October 22, 2018 with new reading nook chair suggestions. Classic Combinations: Reading Nook Furniture that Eases You Into Fall Two simple things: a solid wood bookcase and a reading chair. Most homeowners will have versions of these hanging around the house, but together? Together they are an oft-overlooked, pleasing power couple. To wit: Related Posts For Your Summer Reading List If there’s one thing I love about summer, it’s shoving some… Classic Combinations: Reading Nook Furniture that Eases You Into Fall
A Brief History of the Windsor Chair Infographic and text, plus links below! Related Posts The Windsor Chair Series Part III: The Undying Appeal While the Windsor chair will always be associated with colonial times and country style furniture, the truth is, Windsor chairs Read more History of the Roll Top Desk “A place for everything and everything in its place” was the slogan that propelled the roll top desk to popularity Read more 5… A Brief History of the Windsor Chair {Infographic}
Persistent Amish Misconceptions We’re welcoming Erik Wesner, author of Success Made Simple: An Inside Look at Why Amish Businesses Thrive back to help clear up some common Amish fallacies. Related Posts How Buying Solid Wood Furniture Reduces Landfill Waste Fast Furniture is Quickly Filling Our Landfills In 1960, we “only” threw away 2.1 million tons of furniture in the Read more Best Contemporary Furniture Award of 2024 Goes to Amish Furniture Store? You read the headline correctly.… Amish Misconceptions
Amish History By Erik Wesner, author of Success Made Simple: An Inside Look at Why Amish Businesses Thrive, Where do the Amish come from? How did they find their way from Europe to America? We take a brief look at Amish history below, dating back to their roots in 16th-century Europe. Related Posts Outdoor Bar and Dining Furniture: What’s Hot in 2024 Outdoor dining and bar furniture is very popular in 2024. In this post, we… Everything You Want to Know About: Amish History
Erik Wesner, author of Success Made Simple: An Inside Look at Why Amish Businesses Thrive, guest blogs for us today, all about: Amish Businesses If you’ve traveled through an Amish community lately, you may have noticed any number of roadside stands, small shops and signs advertising food and other goods for sale. Amish entrepreneurs can be found in nearly every Amish community, and in some places have surpassed farmers in number. Today, Amish run thousands… Everything You Want to Know About: Amish Businesses
Happy Monday, everyone! Say hello again to our friend Erik Wesner, author of Success Made Simple: An Inside Look at Why Amish Businesses Thrive, here to tell us more about the lives of Amish children. Read on: Related Posts How Buying Solid Wood Furniture Reduces Landfill Waste Fast Furniture is Quickly Filling Our Landfills In 1960, we “only” threw away 2.1 million tons of furniture in the Read more Best Contemporary Furniture Award of 2024 Goes… Everything You Want to Know About: Amish Children
