FREE cutting board with ANY purchase on ManchesterWood.com in the month of January!

The only requirement is typing FREE in the coupon code box at check-out!

The cutting board is not only a rare item that samples our craftsmanship, it’s also a gesture of Gratitude for the last 35 years of unwavering support in commerce and Spirit that you’ve provided.

With a catalog of products that continues to grow, and an array of staple products that have been customer favorites, with some since the very beginning, we hope we provide you with the best in American made solid wood furniture.

Also, we’ve kept a blog entry steady for the past year; mostly on products and events, but also on employees, American history, and the review on American made business culture and what part we can provide as consumers and business owners. Be sure to visit our blog here, if interested: Click here for Manchester Wood’s blog page.

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Manchester Wood: American Made Furniture

Manchester Wood designs and produces quality, affordable, eco-friendly solid wood American furniture in the Green Mountains of Vermont and Adirondack foothills of New York.

American Made Christmas Shopping: the People’s Stimulus Package

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ABC World News with Diane Sawyer’s “Made in America” series has continued far past the coverage Manchester Wood received as one of the “Made in USA” companies that supplied products towards the renovating of a Dallas home earlier this year with all American made items.

This holiday season they have taken an in-depth look at what Americans can do to help our domestic economy as we shop for gifts this Christmas.

A few interesting facts they discovered:

In the 1960s, nine out of every 10 products Americans bought for the holidays were made in America. Today easily more than half of what we buy is foreign-made.

If Americans spent $64 this holiday on an item made in America, we could create 200,000 jobs right now.

If it still sounds like a decent chunk of change consider that the average American spends $700 on Christmas or holiday gifts.

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We believe wholeheartedly in this work above as they research the issues and discover the solutions towards a recovering economy. As we discussed in our previous blog, “The Gift That Keeps Giving: The Holidays for Manchester Wood,” the Christmas season to us a symbol of Gratitude and thanks for the gifts bestowed upon us.

In buying our American made solid wood furniture you can contribute the support of double to six-times the efforts they found! You can truly help stimulate American business, help get more people back to work, and not only feel good about that, but also that you have an heirloom quality item that you’ll proudly display and use, not a cheap throw-away, but something handcrafted with pride.

Buy furniture from Manchester Wood today. Let’s create jobs instead of losing them. Give the gift that keeps giving.

Happy holidays from all of us at Manchester Wood, God bless you.

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To view our online catalog, click here.

To view the ABC World News “Made in America” series facts discussed in this blog, click here.

The Gift That Keeps Giving: The Holidays for Manchester Wood

This holiday season many of us seek joyous occasions with friends and loved ones gathered around a softly lit fire, crackling along with the laughs of memories shared. There is a thankfulness for the time together, and the gifts given physically, emotionally, and spiritually; all of which are truly the most treasured of gifts “that keep on giving.”

Manchester Wood would like to take this article to note not only the material possessions we feel we can provide for a great holiday gift, but also the efforts and services of others who make these gifts that abundantly keep giving. Our American made solid wood furniture certainly falls in line with this slogan of the season as the heirloom quality products we design, construct, and naturally resource from our plentiful local forests create a beautiful furniture piece that continues to give in longevity and delight.

This holiday, we suggest this year’s most popular items (all w/FREE SHIPPING):

-Chairside Bookshelf End Table $199.95

-Chairside Storage Table $199.95

-Portable Folding Work and Laptop Desk $89.95

-TV Tray Sets $149.95-$299.95

Tony working in our sample room on potential new product.

Aside from these great gift ideas that continue to give to not only to the consumer, but the local company and employee that it provides for. At Manchester Wood our employees are a great gift too, and they continue to keep on giving as we strive to provide you the best in Adirondack chair designs to Shaker furniture styles, top end tables, coffee tables, and an abundantly growing collection of the finest in furniture made in the USA.

We thank our families, our friends, our loyal customers, and most importantly, our employees for being the greatest gifts that keep giving, the great furniture makers they are aside.

We cast high tidings and blessings to you this holiday season from all of us at Manchester Wood, God bless you.

Veteran’s Day on 11/11/11

Veteran's Day 11.11.11

In a time when our country needs the most synchronicity to upright and change the tide of a failing economy, immoral bank abuse, political agendas for a select few, and a restless occupy movement finding tent cities in every major metropolitan area in protest in part of this societal unrest; what better place to start that synch of a blissful and self-realized future than on 11-11-11.

An important day it is, as it finds celebration and honor for our veterans who have served, and we wish to thank them dearly for that service.

As an American made solid wood furniture manufacturer, Manchester Wood takes this day to not only keep in mind that synchronicity in which we put forth the idea for a more peaceful and spiritually uplifted union, but also for those who either chose or were found to be in military action as a service to the freedoms America possesses.

Manchester Wood’s founder Clifford Pierce was a medaled Korean War vet who valued and respected his time served and wished nothing more than the same for all those who have put on a uniform. We continue to extend that hand today to our veteran employees and those in our extended community.

This Veteran’s Day is filled with love, respect, gratitude, and an eye on a bright future where war, whether socially, politically, or physically drawn, will never be seen again.

God bless all veterans on this day!

Our TV Tray Tables: In Real Simple, Yankee, and Atlantic Magazines

Manchester Wood's Portable Folding Work and Laptop Desk

You might have read our past blog on our TV Tray Tables, their history, the current uses, and how Manchester Wood provides the best version in American made solid wood craftsmanship. A surprise to some perhaps for continuing to write about our TV Tray Tables, but they remain a popular item for us that have seen many different days and uses since we started making them back in the late 70’s.

From Little House On The Prairie to American Idol, Manchester Wood has supplied TV Tray Tables for the better part of a half-century, producing a sturdy, well crafted, heirloom quality portable table for your dinner and viewing needs; the modern families prized item when gathering around for a favorite show.

The function for the item has changed, no question about that. Families don’t gather much around the television these days, but work more to mobilize their media in formats that keep them on the go. But with laptops and iPads as the main visual resource, Manchester Wood’s TV Tray Tables find a new use when looking to sit down and operate in a communal area, still to visit with their loved ones.

Be sure to pick up the latest Real Simple, Yankee, and Atlantic Magazines for advertisements featuring our wide array of TV Tray Tables.

To view our TV Tray Tables online, click here.

New Product Spotlight: Chairside Bookshelf End Table

Our Chairside Bookshelf End Table in Chestnut Finish.

Our follow-up to the most popular end table over the past year — the Chairside Storage Table – the new Chairside Bookshelf End Table is a great addition to the best in space saving design for end tables at Manchester Wood.

The Chairside Bookshelf End Table is narrow like it’s predecessor at a mere 11 inches in width, allowing you to use that tight space between chairs or smaller wall spaces; or if you’re just looking for a more minimal look in need or design with a compact, reachable Americana atheistic. The height and depth give great room for books and literature; the perfect reading chair end table!

To view our Chairside Bookshelf End Table, click here.

Manchester Wood @ Furniture Market in Highpoint, N.C. Oct. 22-27

Take a sneak peek at our booth! We are setting up for the Furniture Market, a wholesale trade show at the International Home Furnishing Center in Highpoint, N.C. which runs October 22-27. Pictured is some of our new Cottage Collection, which will be on showcase along with the rest of our flourishing American Made furniture. Peace, and blessings to you!

School Season: An Opportunity for Made in USA

Although this article doesn’t pertain so much to first year college students, or those boarding for high school studies where most furniture is supplied in dorm living; this blog focuses more on the student returning this school season with a more definitive approach on his or her’s future.

Our Portable Work Desk -- Perfect for any small living space or mobile environment. Only $89.95 + FREE Shipping

We can’t think of better items for study and work than our American made solid wood desk furniture. Providing your child or yourself with a product that will not only last beyond the school years, but also instill a powerful conscious decision that will help our next generation understand, touch, and feel apart of the difference between products made domestically to cheap overseas pieces that resemble how they’re made — with a vicious method in business regulation and employee satisfaction — which is found to be almost non-existent.

The more we pump money into a system far away from here where we can’t see to feel bad about, the more we need to start to look around, grow a heart for ourselves, and leave Washington politics and executive money hunger to the 1% making the billions we admire.

Let us start our young budding professionals on the right path. Don’t buy cheap furniture for them from China or Vietnam, buy them something their kids will not only be able to use but feel honored about. A piece of furniture that has meaning, its not something you know you’ll throw away in a few years to a landfill already past its limit.

Consider Manchester Wood as your leading provider in American made solid wood furniture.

To view our desk collection for this new school season, click here.

Developing Our Furniture

Our sample-maker, Tony, prototyping furniture in the shop

We’re working away on developing new furniture this summer season. Expect future unveilings on new indoor and outdoor collections. Shaker, Mission, Contemporary, Solid Cherry, and Adirondack, among other genres of craftsmanship will see fresh, new looks for the 21st Century lifestyle.

Our process in developing furniture starts with concepts from the past, or designs fulfilling a place in the furniture world. Our sample makers, along with the company President, work together in constructing these new items, finding what works, then going back to the drawing board further to refine and perfect.

New indoor items will feature storage solutions in concealing ways as well as in size and structure, sleeker designs, a new painted cottage collection, and a higher-end collection providing a more prized piece of craftsmanship.

Outdoor items are taking major steps this year as well with “weathered” finished looks, and overall fresh designs that will showcase a large family of outdoor furniture possibilities for your home or vacation getaway.

A future Home Office piece, a Mission Compact Desk

Keep posted on these new items as well as any upcoming discount specials by joining our mailing list on ManchesterWood.com, our Facebook, and Twitter.

From designing to samples to our final product, everything is created in America, a unique standing in today’s marketplace.

Read about our commitment to producing American made solid wood furniture, click here.

Video: Our Drilling to Sanding Process