The ‘TV’ Tray Table at Manchester Wood

Rectangular Folding TV Tray Table Set of 4

We’ve been discussing this past week how the paradigm of TV tray tables as a genre has shifted. No more is the foldable tray table seen – as it was initially intended – for dinners in front of the television with the family gathered around.

Would it still be modern thought to consider our TV tray table sets actually TV tray tables? We don’t necessarily believe so but we’re also well aware the term has been around since the 1950’s, yet you’ll begin to find Manchester Wood has been slowly progressing past the namesake to something more contemporary in folding tray table design.

The ‘TV’ tray table in the age of advancing technology age has become a more portable folding tray; a mobile desk for laptops and tablet computers.  This is exactly what our popular Portable Folding Work and Laptop Desk has been providing since its inception a few years ago.

At Manchester Wood, we’ve been a solid wood furniture provider for over 35 years. We pride ourselves on innovation in which classical inspiration meets present fashion.  Alongside our traditional ‘TV’ trays, we also offer an array of newly designed tray tables that include folding wood and laptop desks  .

From our Contemporary designs, to our Contour, Oval, and Rectangular tray sets, all are available in either quantities of 2 or 4 trays.  They all display the distinguished quality and handcrafted precision that has made Manchester Wood the leading provider of solid wood American made furniture.

Although we’re well aware the ‘TV’ aspect of our tray tables is fading away, we acknowledge and accommodate these changing needs with open arms and creative minds to offer you the best in portable folding tray tables as we have been since 1976.

To view our TV Tray Tables, please click here.

Design furniture for Manchester Wood, receive 10% off!

If you could design a piece of furniture what would it be?

This month of September we’re offering a very special and creative sale for all the artists and visionaries out there as a part of our monthly giveaway series. For the entire month, we’re asking you, our beautifully intuitive customer to submit design ideas for potential new furniture that could be handcrafted in America by yours truly, Manchester Wood.

Tony, one of our sample makers at work on a new design.

Sketch, paint, draw pictures, or perhaps actually craft a sample of the perfect solid wood furniture piece you could imagine, and email us at service@manchesterwood.com. We’d prefer detailed information like dimensions, influences, and ways in which you feel it could be made.

With us tapping into your creative juices to help us grow, we humbly offer in return with deep gratitude a coupon code (which we’ll email back) that will grant you 10% off ALL Manchester Wood furniture made right here in the USA in the foothills of the Adirondack mountains of upstate New York.

Peace and blessings, God bless you always,

Manchester Wood: American Made Furniture

American Made Accent Furniture

At Manchester Wood we are proud to produce the best quality solid wood construction furniture accents.  Accent furniture is a staple at Manchester Wood and every piece that we make is completely American made, eco-friendly, and of heirloom quality.

One of our most popular selling accent tables, the Chairside Storage Table, offers more than first meets the eye. The Chairside Storage Table has a hidden storage drawer space for conveniently holding all those necessary but cluttering items. As it  is narrower than normal side tables, this feature is a great space saver.

Novel applications and uses as well as convenient design features are what truly make home accents come alive.  For instance, consider our new Tray Top Coffee Table. As a featured item from our yet-to-be named and released collection, the Tray Top Coffee Table is a uniquely and beautifully designed coffee table with a slatted tray top that can be easily carried off, and placed back, with a large shelving space at the base for magazines, books, or collectibles. The Tray Top Coffee Table adds diversity and style in your home or vacation cabin.  No longer do you have to use a separate tray to bring snacks or drinks to your coffee table.  Now you can simply lift off the top, take it to the kitchen, and then bring it back to put right back on the base.

Our Periodical End Table with Drawer.

We know furniture accents the ‘feeling’ of a room in a whole new way, and at times can work well to change the ambiance of an environment. With our Periodical End Table with Drawer, we find just that. The Periodical End Table with Drawer was created when we added a drawer with more shelving to our popular Periodical End Table & Magazine Rack to increase the table’s storage capacity and versatility. As they say, ‘this too shall pass,’ and while great furniture pieces are always great furniture pieces, we sometimes need to freshen up and find a new vibrant feeling to bring a room. Perhaps the Periodical End Table with Drawer will do just that.

At Manchester Wood, we offer a wide range of quality wooden accent tables in many different styles and with several design options to choose from. We know accent furniture and we understand how furniture accents rooms much in the way that art hangs on the wall. Be sure to shop all our solid wood furniture collections at ManchesterWood.com.  All furniture made in the USA!

Manchester Wood’s ‘Finding Your Purpose’ August Giveaway!

Our Multipurpose Cart & End Table in a ‘Chestnut’ finish.

Our versatile Multipurpose Cart & End Table is the definition of complete mobility with casters on its legs making for a true multipurpose unit. So, in the name of spirited American made solid wood furniture by Manchester Wood, we’ve decided to feature this practical and unique item for our monthly FREE raffle giveaway for this, the month of August!

The Multipurpose Cart & End Table can be used as an end table, magazine rack, printer stand, or more temporary functions: a surface for a laptop or tablet computer with readily available storage to cart away for saving space.

Enter this month’s raffle by emailing service@manchesterwood.com, or ‘tweet’ us on Twitter (@ManchesterWood) with a response to the question of “Where are you finding your purpose?”

We trust the winner, which will be announced the beginning of next month, will find great purpose for this well-crafted solid wood furniture piece.

To view the Multipurpose Cart & End Table, click here.

To view the rest of our ‘Made in the USA’ furniture, visit ManchesterWood.com.

God Bless you always,

Manchester Wood: American Made Furniture

Our New Kid’s Youth Adirondack Chair!

Manchester Wood and Adirondack chairs – the two phrases have been synonymous for more than 35 years as we have designed and crafted some of the most recognized Adirondack chairs in America that have appeared in mail-order catalogs, outlets, web stores, uniting brands that believe in the high-quality American made furniture lifestyle Manchester Wood promotes and provides.

Our new Kid’s Youth Adirondack Chair in our ‘Apple Green’ finish!

Our new Kid’s Youth Adirondack Chair is a perfect addition to our Outdoor Furniture Collection. It’s similar to our Kid’s Adirondack Chair, though the Kid’s Youth Adirondack Chair is a size larger, making it perfect for the toddler to early middle grade child (ideal for ages 3-8).

As our Adirondack chairs have become more popular through the years, we’re proud to announce this new addition to our kid’s outdoor furniture. A new solid wood furniture piece designed to withstand the test of time with heirloom quality craftsmanship, and a 100% ‘Made in USA’ label promoting local goods to boot.

When it comes to furniture made in the USA, look no further than Manchester Wood, especially when it comes to Adirondack furniture.  It is one of our many lines that we pride ourselves on and now we are excited to be extending our quality furniture to more kids!

Many Submissions to Manchester Wood’s Gratitude Furniture Giveaway

The winner of our Gratitude Giveaway received a free Serving Tray.

For our solid wood furniture giveaway at Manchester Wood this past March asked customers to submit things that they were grateful for to receive a FREE solid wood Serving Tray. Many took the time to share things things for which they are grateful with us, especially the winner who was kind enough to share her gratitude for the giveaway with us on Facebook:

“Oh my God, I was so surprised when UPS a delivery showed up to my house. I know I didn’t order anything, but to my surprise it was the table! I cannot thank you enough! The smell and structure is beautiful! Thank you again!

Below are a select few more of the amazingly soulful, heart-warming, sincere, and supportive responses we received:

I have recently discovered your website and am fascinated by all of the good quality wood furniture. I am grateful for the gift of eyesight so that I can see the love in my husband’s eyes, and all the wonderful things my children and grandchildren are doing in their careers and play.

I am grateful for every day, living in a beautiful valley with Mount Equinox rising above in the early morning light, good health, my daughter, my community, family and friends, my work, and the love of a smart, talented, beautiful woman. Thanks for asking.

I am grateful for a very loving family.  We might not have a lot, but we sure make up for it with love.  It’s not just my immediate family, husband and foster daughter that I say this about.  It’s always been that way, ever since we (my many siblings and I) were growing up. If you have love, you indeed have many many riches.

I am grateful my mother still knows who I am. She is in a nursing home with short-term dementia. I see her as much as I can. She can still beat me at dominoes.

We discovered many folks grateful for their family, friends,  community, life, and  solid wood furniture. There was lots of thankfulness around having a job too; or unfortunately being jobless in this tough economy, yet still finding gratitude in having a place to live with the ability to  pay the bills.

Although unemployed , I’m grateful that I have a roof over my head when others do not. I can look around and realize that although I’m not in an ideal situation, I at least have shelter and can cover my bills. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway.

I am grateful that I finally found a job with a stable company.

At Manchester Wood, we support job creation in the USA. Many American jobs have been lost do to overseas competition and outsourcing.  We are proud to have remained an American manufacturer that provides jobs for American workers and applaud those who take care to purchase American-made products.  We, and the employees you support, thank you. That is one of the things that we are grateful for.

Manchester Wood offers regular monthly giveaways like this one. Stay up to date on our quality American made furniture giveaways, as well as specials by signing up for our mailing mailing list. Please note that some submissions may have been edited for grammar and spelling.

Celebrate Independence with $64 Gifts for U.S. Jobs July Giveaway

As July begins, summer festivities tend to heat up, which hopefully means many days and nights spent exploring the great outdoors with friends and family, sharing treasured time together. The celebration of our country’s independence kicks off of this month of summertime gathering.  The 4^th of July typically offers smiles and laughs, fireworks and cheers, and a glorious welcome to summer, not to mention a day of reflection for all that we have been gifted with.

At Manchester Wood, we understand the importance of independence, freedom, a dedication to service for each customer, and quality that ensures the best in solid wood furniture. Our monthly giveaway this July is part of our furniture collection that is aimed toward the growth of American jobs. The $64 Gifts of U.S. Jobs category, an inexpensive, quality furniture collection offers an affordable option in supporting made in the USA products, while also supporting the statistic that if each American spent $64 on made in USA products over 200,000 new jobs would be created (source).

Manchester Wood’s $64 Lap Desk offered FREE in July’s raffle giveaway

In spotlighting this incredible new collection, which is currently comprised of five American made furniture pieces, Manchester Wood is offering this month’s giveaway with the FREE $64 Lap Desk to the raffle winner.

To enter the drawing email your name and shipping address to service@manchesterwood.com

The Lap Desk is ideal for working while sitting in a chair or on the couch, perhaps upright in bed. It allows mobility, comfort, and style using a laptop computer, while keeping harmful radiation and unwanted heat away from your body. This is a unique, stylish, Americana-flavored solid wood furniture item.

Weeklong Father’s Day Media Stand Sale!

Manchester Wood’s Black Mountain Console Table

This Father’s Day, it is a pleasure for us at Manchester Wood to offer a 15% off sale on all our handsome entertainment media and television stands.  Perfect gifts for dad this holiday season, all of our stands feature handsomely distinctive styling.

Beginning Monday June 11^th right up to Father’s Day on June 17^th we’re offering our handcrafted solid wood items for dad’s celebration that he’ll be proud to display in his entertainment space.

Simply type “Dad” in the coupon code box at checkout, and you’ll receive 15% off all media/TV stands from Manchester Wood, as well as FREE Shipping (as always) with all our American made furniture pieces.

Proudly gift this Father’s Day solid wood TV stands from Manchester Wood, where furniture made in the USA is our calling and privilege to provide.

Are We ‘Made in America’ Dreaming? News-filled Monday ‘Made in US’

This Monday in news brought much awareness to the “Made in USA” product beginning with an article in the morning from MarketWatch explaining the findings that consumers will pay more for American made goods, and CNET reporting that Samsung could “beat Apple with Made in the USA,” and at night, still on Monday, USA Today spotlights a $25 million dollar makeover project in Minneapolis for the Hyatt Regency Hotel, which will “revamp with an interesting ‘Made in America’ theme.”

Is this a [American] dream? All on a quiet, sleepy March Monday, a tidal wave on conscious consumer updates and budding socially aware businesses like Samsung and Hyatt have designers like Michael Suomi saying, “We had a specific goal of bringing as much of the manufacturing and sourcing back to America to promote job growth, increase speed to market and celebrate American craft” (USA Today). Is this real? Are the “big guys” starting to take another look at malpractices overseas with instead supporting and promoting local businesses with strict moral and lawful codes? That’s not to mention the reward in the feeling of buying something organically handmade from your local area; a point Suomi seems to make with USA Today, “We designed Hyatt Regency Minneapolis as a modern homage to the local heritage, culture and economic history of Minnesota, as well as the proud history of American manufacturing.” The bathrooms they report will be redone with “granite that is quarried locally and purchased from Cold Spring Granite, a 113-year old Minnesota company” (USA Today).

Manchester Wood's founder Clifford Pierce's great grandfather's sawmill in Red Bank, NJ in the early 19th century.

The locally mined granite from an historic 113-year old company reminded me of Manchester Wood’s Slate Top furniture, which is produced in historic collaboration with our family’s wood crafting history of 121 years with a slate top surface mined from local quarries in our area on the Vermont-New York border that began right along the same centennial mark.

The media, big business, and economists, are starting to take a bigger look at the hidden gem back home. ‘Made in America’ is far beyond patriotism; it carries the same benefits of buying local organic foods from the farmer’s market. We give thanks for this un-hatching of a bigger and brighter day in consumerism.

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

References

De Lollis, Barbara (2012, March 12). Makeover Monday: Minneapolis hotel’s ‘Made in America’ redo. USA Today. Retrieved from http://usat.ly/yXQgf7

Matyszczyk, Chris (2012, March 11). Could Samsung beat Apple with ‘Made in the USA’?. CNET. Retrieved from http://cnet.co/yzauKW

PR Newswire (2012, March 12). Consumers Will Pay More For a ‘Made in the USA’ Label. MarketWatch. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/xKlEcE

March’s Gratitude Giveaway!

It is with great pleasure that Manchester Wood is offering this month’s free product giveaway with a gift in gratitude. The month of March is about feeling grateful for you, the customer who buys our products, and keeps our jobs and business producing quality, handcrafted American made furniture. Our customers are what Manchester Wood feels most grateful for, and that got us thinking about what everyone else was grateful for… So… what are you grateful for?

To enter our FREE March giveaway email service@manchesterwood.com with a response to the question, “what are you grateful for?”

You’ll then be entered for a chance to win.

Manchester Wood's NEW Serving Tray!

The giveaway item this month is the Serving Tray from our new $64 Gifts for U.S. Jobs category supporting the statistic that if every American spent $64 on Made in USA goods there would be 200,000 new jobs created (source). It might be a bit ironic to have the Serving Tray as the giveaway with gratitude, but it is a symbol of our service to you, and our knowing of your service to others as well, perhaps this time by surprising someone sick in bed with this new Serving Tray?? …

As with all our products, FREE shipping will be provided.

God bless you always,

Manchester Wood: American Made Furniture

Manchester Wood offers this monthly giveaway series as a token of gratitude and thanks to their loyal consumer base that knows the quality and craftsmanship of our furniture Made in the USA.

Ps. we may compile your responses at some point for an amazing post filled with your gratitude, but we promise to only use your first name.