Hard Maple Furniture: Everything You Should Know Before You Buy If you’ve spent any time researching solid wood furniture, you’ve probably noticed that maple comes in a few flavors. Hard maple. Soft maple. Brown maple. Sap maple. They’re not interchangeable, and the differences matter more than most people realize. So let’s focus on the heavyweight…
Two of the most beloved hardwoods in American furniture-making are cherry and walnut, and they’re often pitted against each other when buyers are trying to choose. Cherry or walnut? It’s a fair question, because they share enough similarities to compete for the same role in a home, but they have personalities different enough that the…
Walk into any bedroom furniture showroom and you’ll hear these two terms tossed around like they mean the same thing. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t, and the confusion has cost a lot of people closet space they didn’t realize they needed. So before you order a piece of bedroom furniture you’ll be living with…
When I first started working for an Amish furniture store, I admit my mental frame of reference was limited to beards, straw hats, and a culture far removed from my own. Within my first week, however, those caricatures were replaced by the reality of the people behind our vendors. They were humorous, welcoming, and jovial:…
I remember when my oldest son was around five and my wife and I would take him to the local playground. We’d spend so much time running and playing. His favorite thing was the rock wall — or trying to climb it, anyway. He’d play for hours as if he were a pirate commanding a…