What Our Customers Say About Us!

We mentioned in the latest blog post how are hearts have been filled with Gratitude for the blessing bestowed on our little manufacturing plant. Our ever-growing customer base has a caring, assertive consumer action that leaves us continually understanding just how beautiful America is, and the new era we’re seeing to emerge in its commerce.

Manchester Wood wants to take this post to allow a few of our many loving customers to speak for us, and let you know just how much we care about our quality and service in our furniture made in the USA.

God bless all whom we’ve shared our gifts with (and to those we haven’t yet!).

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Dear Manchester Wood: American Made Furniture,

This is to say how completely satisfied we are with the Tall Double Jelly Cabinet which we just received a few moments ago after ordering it only yesterday. What fast delivery service, and what fine quality woodworking! **We are delighted with the joinery, with the finish, and with the fact that it is made of solid wood (except the back, of course) rather than pressboard. **And we are very happy to be able to buy something of this quality that is made in America. It was packed solidly and arrived without a scratch or dent.

Happy holidays to you, and long may you prosper! We’ll be recommending you to our friends.

Sincerely,  Michael and Paula

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First, I am shocked by how fast the bookcase came!  Second, I LOVED that I could still smell stain when I opened the box.  Third, it was very easy to put together and it fits perfectly where I put it. Last, I would not hesitate to order from you again and I will recommend your company to anyone who asks.

I am very impressed with the quality and workmanship of the bookcase. Thank you again.

Sincerely, Mary

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The desk [Shaker Secretary Desk] is just what I have been looking for. I bought 3 items, my husband put all 3 items together in much less time than he could put together 1 poorly made imported item. The desk is beautiful, solid wood & it was made in AMERICA. Thank you for offering quality furniture.

-Janice

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To get in on these fine American solid wood furniture pieces these folks, and so many others are talking about, visit ManchesterWood.com

The New Year

Happy New Year, and blessings to you as we embark on 2012, a big time in space for our World. We give thanks to you, our customers for your continued support in American made furniture over the last year, which was a rising one for Manchester Wood as our sales and press coverage grew and flourished as our country continues to become more aware of the importance of American made products still existing, and also, the high moral quality and genuine craftsmanship it entails.

Manchester Wood President Ed Eriksen recognizes distinguished employees at this past years 35th Anniversary Celebration.

Our plans for 2012 are BIG with major evolutionary changes invoking more of the true essence of our brand with lots of new products, our first retail catalog, new business partnerships in spreading our message and furniture, and most importantly, personal notes to our active consumer base as we send your American made solid wood furniture items out the door.

Yes indeed, this year for Manchester Wood is slated to be of great importance for our community, country, and “the mill” – our workplace. We hope you feel the same about your Life as you enter this new time.

The quality of our furniture has proven itself over the last 35 years as a major manufacturer to highly respected brands as a primary provider and important element in their company’s awareness and image. So after years of providing much care and love to our manufacturing clients (whom we still proudly serve), we’ve become more alert to strengthening our financial needs, which, even with the business we receive, we’ve needed to become more solid. In an active pursuit to keep American made furniture business alive we began ManchesterWood.com, refurbished a factory seconds outlet, and approached you the consumer directly. The success we’ve found in doing so has been magnificent with sales in recent months nearly doubling, a growing mailing list, and an active social media and press campaign. We believe this is a sure testament to your caring, assertive consumer actions, and the quality of our products proudly made in the USA.

From the employees, to the employers, Manchester Wood wants to sincerely give thanks for these staggering results as our hearts fill with Gratitude for the past year of service we’ve provided, and you’ve shown necessary. Thank you.

To a prosperous, peaceful, loving 2012! God bless.

To shop our online store, visit www.ManchesterWood.com

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.

A sale of Thanksgiving: 10% off ALL items!

A photo of our 10-year, 20-year, and 35-year employees!

As we extend our products to you this Holiday season we do so in Thanksgiving by offering 10% off all our items starting on Thanksgiving day (Nov. 24^th) through Cyber Monday (Nov. 28^th). We’ve been so grateful to serve you during the past 35 years with the best in American made furniture.

All you have to do is type “Thanks” in the coupon code box at checkout to receive the discount.

Manchester Wood prides itself on the fact it has been producing quality American made solid wood furniture for more than 35 years. Being a US made manufacturer gives a sense of resilience, fortitude, and an honest, real understanding of the bigger picture: helping your fellow man.

We understand times are hard, but they are getting better! A thanks is surely in store this season as an awakened spirit is hitting America! The old drudgeries of a system played to larger corporations are falling to the wayside as small businesses, like ours, hold resurgence at a time when it’s needed most.

We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your response to not only buy our furniture, but furniture made with pride and joy for living in a land so open to opportunity.

Through American made related articles, quotes of inspiration, employee prayers and updates in celebration we post on our Facebook and Twitter; to our news, insights, and sale offers we share on our blog and mailing list, we trust Manchester Wood has and will continue to provide you with more than the finest American made furniture, but also the happiness it invokes in making it for you.

God bless you this Holiday season, and remember give “Thanks” at checkout this upcoming Thanksgiving weekend!

To view Manchester Wood’s online catalog, click here.

The Statue of Liberty Celebrates 125th Anniversary

The State of Liberty during its 125th Anniversary Celebration

The Statue of Liberty (a.k.a. Liberty Enlightening the World) celebrated its 125^th year as a landmark and as a testament to the American ideal this past week, October 28^th 2011. It was on that day in 1886 when the statue was dedicated with Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom standing tall with a torch bearing freedom, chains broken at her feet, and a tablet evoking the laws of our Declaration.

Intended as a gift from the people of France and designed by Frédéric Bartholdi. The production of Libertas and her famed sculpture took Bartholdi over 15 years to make due to political unrest in France and than a lack of funds, which brought publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the World to drive a fundraiser in 1885 bringing more than a 120,000 Americans to contribute to it’s finishing.

Political unrest, lack of funds aside, this gift from France speaks more to us now than ever before. Are we not a nation of political unrest and bestowed with a lack of funds?

The Statue of Liberty was made in a time where America was beginning an upward climb, a manifesting path of un-defiance for an abundant future.

We must look to France in gratitude for this prized possession that is our reminder of freedom and opportunity, and than look to ourselves to make sure we deliver on its promise. Of the 120,000 American people who donated to the finishing touches more than half gave less than a dollar! It was France and the help of the American working class that helped raise this prize! Let us raise it again!

This article was written by Manchester Wood, a small American made solid wood furniture manufacturer out of Upstate New York and the Green Mountains of Vermont. To support American made products and our heirloom quality craftsmanship, please visit our website by clicking here.

Mailing List Sign-up Giveaway!

Our FREE Portable Desk Giveaway! Sign up on Mailing List to be considered in drawing! It Runs until Nov. 30th!

Manchester Wood is offering a special giveaway for a FREE Portable Work Desk to new followers of our mailing list! Please sign-up by clicking here or by signing up at the bottom of our website, ManchesterWood.com.

Our Mailing List gives it’s readership an inside look on sale items, discount deals, and a fresh perspective from an American made solid wood furniture company that’s sustainable and socially conscious efforts gain ground everyday.

Be the first to hear about it! Join Manchester Wood’s mailing list today to be on the front-line for our great offers and perhaps take home a FREE Portable Work Desk!

The giveaway starts today, Nov. 1^st with the winner of the drawing announced Dec. 1^st.

All you have to do is sign-up and you’ll be entered into the drawing! Good luck, many thanks, and God bless you too.

To sign up for our mailing and to enter drawing, click here.

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.

The Grounded Best Life: A family member of Manchester Wood

Manchester Wood's founder celebrating life in Florida on vacation with family and friends.

You know – I’ve begun to realize that Manchester Wood is the most sturdy, truthful, and loving group of business founders in the world (and I mean that).

I’m the grandson to the man who founded Manchester Wood …and Pierce Industries (no small note) …and was a farmer …a pilot …a medaled Korean War vet …and was the most loving, supportive man of a family far exceeding the one who writes this.

Let me give the roll count, he’d be proud to update you: We have four grandsons, eight granddaughters, twelve great-grandsons and great-granddaughters, three daughters … a son, and an encompassing love that surrounds this family; whether it be in-laws, friends, friends of friends… you get the drift: Abundance was manifested, both physically and spiritually.

I didn’t mention the other critical being that partnered and schemed this blessed life, his wife. An independent and worldly presence that stood by this trailblazing man of love in truth, and business, and who did nothing but want to give and give thanks to God and it’s world we exist in.

I’m writing a biblical crusade folks… but this is real life!

Manchester Wood stands large on the scale of American made solid wood furniture, it stands large on the scale of American made small business, but remains small in the sea of cheap knock-offs, box store deals, and any major outlet that people shop in.

And I like that.

Our current President leads an employee service milestone celebration this past Summer.

Because people who love, give, and support their community through jobs aren’t the people with the biggest pot of gold, they’re the ones with the best pot of gold!

Manchester Wood, like many American small businesses, stand proud at the fact “we’re the small guy looking in” at this greedy ever-growing-only-for-a-few big pot of gold.

I mean we’re the American people! We’re YOU. We’re US.

When America started; truth, love, good commerce, and a new way of life were the dream. I’m proud to say from the man who founded Manchester Wood to his daughter and son-in-law who run it today that dream still holds strong, and exists in all whom have worked there.

If you want furniture, support a place that produces from the most honest place America can make – a product made from a loving, caring, giving, and respectful place, made for the customer from the same place. Let’s all help grow a business like that, and awaken this culture to the good commerce around them.

Buy Manchester Wood.

In Love and Peace, God Bless You,

Luke Eriksen, son of Priscilla and Ed Eriksen, grandson to Evelyn and Clifford Pierce, and the many past, thank you for this life.

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!

What Our Customers Say About Us

At Manchester Wood, we blog much about the positive effects behind buying American made furniture and the high quality product that we as a brand deliver. This week, we decided we’d like to let our loyal customer base speak for us through their reviews online to the emails we’ve received.

We hope their kind and supportive words will help you in deciding to buy from Manchester Wood for an American made hand crafted solid wood furniture item.

Many thanks, and blessings to you, also.

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“Our chair arrived yesterday – thanks for the quick shipping and quality workmanship – my husband put it together in about 15 minutes – no missing parts, everything fit perfectly, no frustration, no swearing, a surprisingly pleasant experience!!  And the chair is great!  Thanks again!”

“Arrived in 48 hrs, great service and high quality– would buy more!”

“This is a high quality piece of furniture. Assembly instructions were easy to follow. The wood is beautiful, and the desk is a great addition to the room where it’s placed. I’m using it for an extra large computer monitor, and there’s enough room to place the speakers on either side. The drawer opens and closes easily.”

“I had hoped that it would be sturdy and as attractive as it appears to be in the photo online. It’s both! If you’re on this fence, I’d strongly recommend that you buy it, and I expect you’ll be as pleased with it as I am.”

“Customer service was outstanding, and the delivery was prompt.”

“Thrilled with quality and shipped same day I ordered it.”

“Purchased this table unfinished so I could stain it to match my other furniture. Great quality and solid ash construction (no veneers). Came well packaged and fast shipping. Worth the price in my opinion for solid wood.very nice.”

“Just received the 2 that I purchased and are perfect for the area that we have. Craftsmanship is much more than I expected and looking forward to doing more business with this company. Thank you for the speedy order and the way it was packaged and delivered to our door.”

“We purchased this Chairside table for my Mom to put next to recliner. It is perfect it has all the storage she needs and it is level with her chair so it is perfect. We are very pleased with the quality and craftsmanship of the work on the table. I highly recommend this table.”

“I just bought this table for a night stand. It is perfect. Great quality. Thanks for a great piece of furniture.”

“Fantastic customer service and a great product.”

To view our online collection, click here.