No Buyers Remorse with Manchester Wood

Our solid wood furniture is designed for quality so that you are not left regretting your purchase.

At Manchester Wood we pride ourselves on not making quality solid wood furniture instead of the cheap throwaway items you’ll find at most big box stores.  Sold by the truckloads, such throwaway furniture is typically destined for landfills not a few short years after they’re sold.

We design solid wood furniture made in America with a promise of heirloom quality that will last generations. Our care for the earth is shown in all our eco-friendly practices and socially conscious decisions.  In making our furniture, we only use locally harvested wood  that comes from forests, which incorporate observed reseeding plans to replenishing the timber and trees that we’ve  removed from our treasured forests.

Our customers are not reckless shoppers and likely due to this, we do not see many instances of  ‘buyers remorse,’ where customers regret their purchase from us. We’ve found that our intelligent consumers thoroughly investigate the options, observe the best finishes to meet their home, and ask thoughtful questions, which is the right approach when you are buying a furniture piece that will last a lifetime.

At Manchester Wood our promise is to provide you a quality product that is exactly as we represent it on our website and advertising.  If anything, our goal is to provide furniture pieces that go beyond satisfying customers with their quality.  We want to impress and inspire with our dedication to sold wood craftsmanship and quality.

 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.

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MLK Day: How It Stands For Us All

The past is transitory. It’s hard to place any thought on the past and fathom it as the real, true happening to be equated to this very moment. It’s due to growing and changing as a people, as nations, at an alarming rate. However, Martin Luther King, Jr., and his day of celebration next Monday is a past historical remembrance of a Great Soul where no doubt real changes and shifts in consciousness took place to bring us to a time to where, even not so in the distant past that it was, is hard to believe such hate ever occurred.

America has made countless moral mistakes in it’s past and current, through slavery, American-Japanese concentration camps, unnecessary wars, segregation, the treatment of Native Americans, and most recently, it’s disconnected spending in Government, banking systems, and their corporate conglomerates with using the very people who make it run.

1966. Martin Luther King Jr., along with his children, addresses a crowd.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a man of the people, beyond his race. He stood up at a time in the name of God in Peace and Love on a topic that alarms us just to think about it ever existing. It shows how far we’ve come, and how much his work matters. Dr. King sought justice for a people being unjustly viewed and ruled by a system due to the color of their skin. In today’s issues by removing the skin color and adding your bank statement, you’ll find the universal Truth that Dr. King stood up for with us all.

He was a man of awareness. A clear voice and heart, and when he yelled, “I have a dream…” we listened, because God spoke through his very core.

At Manchester Wood, we open the discussion on Martin Luther King, Jr. a little shy of a week from this day of celebration to open the conversation. What this man stood for, and how can we continue to apply it today?

We’re growing as a nation, we as a people are becoming more aware, through shopping American Made products, occupying our hearts in demonstration for a brighter future, and growing to an age of empowerment.

I believe Dr. King would be proud, and would ask us to keep having dreams for a brighter day for all of God’s inhabitants.

God bless you Dr. King, and God bless the consumers of our justly made American furniture, and God bless the power coming to the American people.

May our past escape us, and our future amaze us!

The American Made Christmas

Although the title speaks solely to Christmas, we feel all Holidays celebrated this time of year should strongly consider gifts to be Made in the USA. That may sound flag totting, a bit arrogant, or not Worldly enough in approach, but the American working class needs your help more than ever before, and what better time to offer your support than in this season of giving.

ABC World News with Diane Sawyer ran an article last week citing that if every American spent $64 on US Made goods that would create 200,000 jobs. And that’s not a lot of money to spend, considering the average American pays out $704 on shopping this time of year.

Now our little American made furniture plant has been picking up steam lately, and we thank you dearly for that. Our workforce has just entered full-time work again after several months on and off with part-time employment, many struggling to make ends meet. To say the times have been easy would be a lie, to say they’ve been a learning experience and a testament to the good we as people bestow, would be accurate and true.

Help us and other businesses producing American made products thrive and succeed in a Worldly model that so desperately needs our involvement.

In the same realm as energy efficient appliances, organic foods, alternative medicines, American made falls right into the same category as one in need of desperate action and understanding.

If you’re looking to gift or receive incredible American made solid wood furniture, look no further than Manchester Wood. If you have ideas beyond furniture, and want to help support other goods and services with a Made in USA seal, visit our good friends AmericansWorking.com for an extensive database on US Made businesses.

Happy Holidays, and God bless, from all of at Manchester Wood.

Our Employee Dinner: December 4th

Our Employee Dinner was December 4th at the Barn Restaurant in Pawlet, Vermont (pictured above) where we enjoyed each others company in holiday cheer. Aside from our blessed meal and time together, we passed out Christmas mugs and candy to our loyal workforce family as we enter this season of Spirit and Giving.

Thank you to our employees for this time together! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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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.

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!

It’s time for indoor furniture!

A few items pictured above from Contemporary Collection.

With Fall entering full swing and leaves showing most of their transformation, we begin bringing things inside and reside more in our homes than outside them. The lawn is cut for the final time, the grill and Adirondack chairs are put away, improving our indoor living becomes the next top priority.

Manchester Wood would like to focus this blog on our vastly growing Contemporary Collection. A line that features a very 21st century minimal approach with a touch of country and tradition.

Our Contemporary Collection features an assortment of Media Stands, End Tables, Coffee Tables, Sofa, and Console Tables in several shapes and sizes. Providing you with a high quality American made furniture piece is our mission with a varying selection of product to fit your needs is our strong condition, and one we abide.

Aside from our Contemporary Collection we have an ever-growing furniture store, all American made in our shop in the Slate Valley Region of the Adirondacks, be sure to visit our website: www.ManchesterWood.com

To view our Contemporary Collection, click here.

Our Foliage Season: A Time of Need For A VT Visit

Foliage season in our area is perhaps the most stunning Fall experience in the Northeast. Vermont and the Slate Valley Region shine with a colorful glow in a dry, cool air atmosphere. A setting that brings many to peace and relaxation as the climate changes to more mellow times.

In honor of our regions beauty this time of year, and with it’s staple natural resource, our Slate Top Furniture is not only a mark of locally made craftsmanship, but an attitude and design that very much exudes this Fall season.

Manchester Wood's Slate Top Furniture Collection features local resources in both slate and wood as well as crafted in our mill in the Slate Valley Region.

From slate top end tables to coffee tables, and more, Manchester Wood has worked to provide a product that shows our local pride but with a design of global appeal. An attitude that very much resembles Vermont, which is in a darker time but with a glimmering approach in survival.

Vermont, Manchester Wood‘s birthplace has taken a heavy hit with Hurricane Irene, the devastation to business, homes, roads, and historic bridges has been near catastrophic for many.

It’s fitting though, that Fall, our busiest tourist season has arrived in a time where visits are at there most needed for business and community, to a state derived from independence and a peaceful, positive spirit.

Be sure to visit Vermont this serene season, support what it provides.  It almost metaphorically resembles the need to domestically become more aware as a country fighting to provide in a world of a select power.

Visit the Hurricane Irene Flood Relief Fund page to support small businesses effected in Vermont: http://www.vtirenefund.org/

To visit Manchester Wood’s slate top collection click here.

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.

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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.