Where do you put your stuff?

“That’s all your house is, it’s a pile of stuff with a cover on it…”

George Carlin jokingly (perhaps not) once conveyed about our lives.

We all, generally speaking, do love stuff, and we do need places for that stuff.

Our Storage Solutions line is our answer to that call.

We’ve focused on space efficiency and functionality along with style in storing items. From the early stages of our company we produced the popular Multipurpose Cart, a Periodical End Table with Magazine Rack, and more recently our deceiving stuff holding piece, the Chairside Storage Table. Perfect for hiding away most possessions in a classy end table fashion.

“The Mill,” which is what most of our employees call our factory, is located near one of the richest slate deposits in the World. Glacial masses imprinted our land with beautifully colored slate thousands of years ago, leaving us to work with it.

We’ve used local slate on many pieces of furniture, and one of those pieces includes the Slate Top Console Table. It’s a magnificent piece of furniture with great storage capacity.

So that’s our take on stuff, although it doesn’t define us, we do like holding onto things we cherish, which reaches far beyond furniture… and stuff.

Check out our Storage Solutions section here.

Ups and Downs: Life at “The Mill”

I’ve just started painting our lunchroom. Revamping it after years of hard use.

It’s amazing how many moving parts there are at a factory. The constant motions, change, fixing, rebuilding, but the community of it, remains the same forever.

Sure like every relationship, it has its ups and downs, hard times and good.

It helps when something comes along and humbles you. Waking you up from the everyday repetitive loop you can linger in.

Last week, we had a spontaneous combustion fire here at “the mill,” our factory and home to more than fifty employees.

The event surely humbled and awoke us.

We were very fortunate, walking away with minimal damage.

Life can remind you in harsh and subtle ways that in fact it can end or change at any moment.

On that dreaded Sunday night, anxiously racing over, we found several employees coming in at different times to help.

No time cards clocked, working into the late hours of the night only to be back Monday morning, just a  few short hours later.

This week we wish to thank all of our employees for their dedication to Manchester Wood. Also to all manufacturing companies in America who fight everyday to survive in our country.

To the hardworking and downtrodden, your fellow man thanks you.

Also to our Mother Earth for giving us such amazing resources!

The Old Green Model: American Hardwood Products

Our Adirondack Chair on Lake George, NY

As the years go by, more discussion for green job growth continues.

Our Government leans towards a more “green tech” and “green economy” for our people, and we’d have to agree.

We started posting some facts on Twitter about the sustainable wood we use from around our region in New England, Pennsylvania, and New York.

I figured we needed more than a 140 characters, which is all Twitter allows at a time to explain our stand behind sustainable, green practices in wood manufacturing.

Manchester Wood uses only natural hardwood. The hardwoods of the oak, ash, and maple tree primarily.

Why do we use hardwood?

It is not only a great natural resource where we live, but it’s biodegradable and renewable; the tree naturally re-seeds, growing by the multitude.

Here are a few facts we pointed out on our Twitter Account:

-US hardwood is in excess of 10,000 million cubic meters, growing at rate of 40 million cubic meters per year after harvest.

-Trees produce oxygen, destroying carbon dioxide and store carbon, thus they reduce greenhouse gases. Once cut and made into a product, the carbon is captured.

-US Hardwood is sustainable, biodegradable, and renewable.

Choosing to purchase from our small hardwood furniture company gives you the assurance that the trees were harvested responsibly.

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