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Old 12-07-2009, 06:38 PM
 
Location: Lake Conroe, Tx
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They make everything with cheap veneer these days at those mass furniture stores... the "high end" one are just sas bad. It's just higer end veneer.
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I ordered white pine,bunk log beds, Northern Woods/ Minnesota style, for a bunk room. Very nice, high quality, so heavy and solid they will be there 100 years from now. It's a little rustic, but I'm very pleased with them.

Either that, or find old ones on Ebay


Agreed; most all furniture these days is garbage, or camouflaged garbage that you pay more for.

We found the only place that sells good quality furniture, (the kind that doesn't fall apart that you can pass along through generations) is made by the Amish. The furniture is certainly expensive but it is made out of real wood (many choices for types of wood); it is also put together with great pride and true craftsmanship that you can't find anymore, we feel this will last us a life time.

We use to purchase furniture from Lazy Boy, Ethan Alan, even Louis Shanks and found most of it to be constructed in some manner below the quality we were looking for, or the use of sub standard materials were used. We finally got tired of buying new furniture every 3-5 years and bought a house full of Amish furniture. Now when my 350lb brother-in-law comes over we don't cring when he sits in our chairs..
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Old 12-07-2009, 07:30 PM
 
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Where can you buy Amish furniture?
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Old 12-08-2009, 01:22 PM
 
Location: Houston, Texas
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You can buy Amish furniture from Thee Amish Shoppe in Atoscita. (Yep, they spell the with 2 e's.)

We have Amish dog leashes. It's the best leather & our very big dog hasn't snapped it in two pieces after several years! The Amish make things the old fashioned way & it lasts!
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Old 12-08-2009, 02:11 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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I think there is an Amish furniture store on Washington Avenue now. The buggies are parked in front.
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