Traditional Furniture With a Modern Twist

Amish made furniture is made as it was earlier, using high quality wood, using little or no mechanization, employing old fashioned methods of carpentry, hand finishing and the kind of designs that never go out of style. It however also offers several modern conveniences. For one you can pick and choose designs online and browse literally dozens of sites offering various options. You can pick from among these and have furniture; fully assembled, delivered to and placed inside your home!

For another Amish furniture has evolved to embrace ever more contemporary and modern designs of furniture. Also Amish furniture offers the great convenience of having the pieces of furniture customized. You can have pieces of custom furniture to suit your convenience and requirements, to say nothing of personal tastes. It is not just the dimensions of furniture that you can customize but also the color of stain, the paint and the overall look of the particular item of furniture that you may choose.

There are several reasons why Amish furniture is sometimes known as heirloom furniture, the sort of furniture that just goes on and on. For one it is the quality of raw material used and for another the specific types of joinery or the methods used to construct the furniture that make Amish custom furniture so long lasting. This unique joinery that makes the furniture so sturdy has been around literally for hundreds of years. The trial and effort of craftsmen over the centuries has made it possible for us today to enjoy furniture that has become a design classic. This part of making Amish furniture has not changed in eons!

What has also not changed is the way that the Amish make their furniture. Since their beliefs and way of life prohibit the use of mechanized and modern conveniences, Amish furniture is often lovingly hand crafted and so what reaches your home is not a soulless piece of mass produced assembly line furniture. Rather the furniture is something that has been made the old fashioned unhurried way so that you will enjoy the item you buy for a long time to come.

What the Amish also do not compromise on is the use of hard wood. It's none of the modern ply or particle boards for this kind of furniture. It is only slow growing hard wood that will last for decades to come: oak, maple, cherry etc. This is also in keeping with a long tradition.

However where Amish made furniture makes a break from tradition is the fact that you can now purchase this furniture on the internet and have it delivered to your doorstep. Now this is certainly a modern convenience that the Amish never envisaged earlier!

The fact that you can have a lot of your furniture customized is another modern convenience that Amish made furniture can offer you. This is the reason that Amish Furniture offers best of both worlds: it offers durability and elegance of a bygone era, with the convenience and ease of modern lifestyles.