| At first glance, Amish made furniture will strike you as | | | | the designs. Something dramatically modern or stark |
| being beautiful, solid, well crafted and timeless looking. | | | | may look really smart today, but within a few years, |
| There are many qualities that set apart Amish furniture | | | | that very look may seem dated to your own eyes. |
| from other kinds of mass produced furniture: | | | | With furniture, which is a costly purchase in any |
| Quality of Raw Materials used: The Amish generally | | | | circumstances, it is wise to invest in something that will |
| use hard woods for the furniture that they make. They | | | | last for a long time rather than something that will |
| always use solid wood such as cherry, oak, maple etc.; | | | | quickly need replacing. |
| no use is ever made of particle board and other short | | | | Methods of Hand Crafting: It is well known that the |
| cut techniques that you routinely see employed in | | | | Amish live simple lives that do not depend on modern |
| mass produced furniture. The hard wood that is used | | | | aids or technological tools. There is therefore very little |
| for Amish made furniture is the kind that is slow | | | | automation used for the making of Amish furniture. It is |
| growing. Since the wood is slow growing, it is also very | | | | still made the old fashioned way; some of it is made |
| durable and long lasting. It is for this reason that Amish | | | | using old fashioned tools in an unhurried and |
| furniture is generally thought of as heirloom furniture | | | | no-shortcuts method. The joinery used in Amish |
| that is passed on from one to another generation. | | | | furniture is especially important, which give it distinctive |
| Classic Designs: The styles and designs used for | | | | good looks as well as tremendous durability. Finishing |
| making Amish furniture are timeless classics. They are | | | | of individual pieces is usually done by hand. |
| not the kind that follow the 'here today - gone | | | | Exclusivity: With mass produced furniture, you are alas |
| tomorrow' trends. If a piece of Amish handcrafted | | | | sure that your piece is one from among many, many |
| furniture looks stylish to you now, it will also look as | | | | others that are exactly alike; even identical. The same |
| stylish 10 or even 20 years down the road, simply | | | | cannot be said for Amish furniture however, since this |
| because it is the sort that never goes out of style. | | | | is not assembly line furniture. Each individual piece of |
| Some of the designs and styles employed by the | | | | furniture is lovingly created so that there are no two |
| Amish date back not just decades but even perhaps | | | | pieces of furniture that are identical. In fact it is also |
| a century or two! | | | | possible to have pieces of furniture customized to suit |
| Contrast this to the mass produced, trendy, modern | | | | your individual requirements and tastes. There is none |
| furniture that you see generally. These will follow styles | | | | of the mass produced variety of furniture when you |
| and trends slavishly, without regard for timelessness of | | | | look at Amish made furniture! |