Introducing Our Tray Top Coffee Table!

Manchester Wood's NEW Tray Top Coffee Table!

As a featured item from a yet-to-be released collection, the Tray Top Coffee Table is the newest unique and beautifully designed American made solid wood furniture piece from Manchester Wood. With a slatted tray top that can be easily carried off, or placed back, 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.

Home furnishings designer Michelle Lamb recently told The Kansas City Star (source) that coffee tables, and their uses and functions are constantly increasing in this new age of technology. “Not only is it a place to set your drinks and the remote, it’s a place for laptops, tablet computers and smartphones,” Lamb explained.

The coffee table is entering a ‘golden age’ as an extremely useful and practical item in the modern day household, and we believe our Tray Top Coffee Table provides the same basic functions with diverse and portable qualities for its many current uses.

This handcrafted, Made in USA product is priced at a reasonable $299.95, and that includes FREE Shipping. Today, take home this prized piece of furniture designed, milled, and made from the Green Mountains of Vermont and the foothills of the Adirondacks.

To view the new Tray Top Coffee Table, click here.

Are Coffee Tables On The Rise Due to Technology?

A recent article by Stacy Downs of The Kansas City Star explains just that. “Not only is it a place to set your drinks and the remote, it’s a place for laptops, tablet computers and smartphones,” Michelle Lamb, a home furnishings designer told the reporter.

The article, entitled Coffee tables enter a ‘golden age’ explains how the “Seinfeld era” in the early 90’s found coffee tables used mostly for drinks and food, the 50’s referred to them more as cocktail tables, with less wood in the design and more chrome. Each era has had it’s own appeal to this key piece of furniture.

It’s now “a place to work,” Lamb continued in The Kansas City Star interview. Lamb travels all over to trade shows and studies how furniture makers, like Manchester Wood, respond and adapt furniture to changing lifestyles.

Manchester Wood's Slate Top Coffee Table, beautifully hand-split slate tiles mined from nearby slate quarries along the New York-Vermont border.

“It’s combining sculptural art pieces with multiple functions,” Rick Janecek, a creative director and designer of Global Views, a home décor wholesale company told the Star.

The coffee table is evolving into a further artistic expression in the home, as well as its design in supplying the many functions we now desire in this age of technology. With laptops, iPads, Kindles, the uses stretch as Lamb said for “a place to work,” not just for setting a drink and the remote, while watching your favorite show.

In this era of multitasking, the coffee table is arriving as an impromptu desk with a fresh demand and need to be met. Manchester Wood, your American made solid wood furniture retailer is unveiling many designs this year for the coffee table, including one very soon that plays into the mobility and simply technical lifestyle the world seeks to find.

To view Manchester Wood’s coffee tables, click here.

References:

Downs, Stacy. (2012, 02 28). Coffee tables enter a ‘golden age’. The Kansas City Star. Retrieved from http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/28/3456531/coffee-tables-enter-a-golden-age.html#storylink=misearch

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.

Manchester Wood announces collection “$64 Gifts for U.S. Jobs”

Manchester Wood Announces "$64 Gifts for U.S. Jobs"

A recent study by ABC World News with Diane Sawyer around the holiday season showed that if each person spent $64 dollars on Made in America items we would create 200,000 new American jobs (source). In support of this finding, Manchester Wood is offering an affordable and unique gift collection that allows you to bring home an heirloom quality American made product for only $64 dollars, which includes free shipping. This is a great opportunity to support the Made in USA cause, own a quality piece of furniture at a very affordable rate, practice conscious consumerism, and help create more American jobs.

The collection is currently offering a Lap Desk, Serving Tray, Tea Cup/Mug Stand, Folding Table, and Step Stool. All American made and entirely of solid Northeastern hardwood, milled and crafted in our manufacturing shop in Granville, New York.

View our new $64 Gifts for U.S. Jobs collection by clicking here, or read the product descriptions below for more info:

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 an old-fashioned style using a laptop computer while also keeping harmful rays and unwanted heat away.

The Serving Tray offers someone sick in bed a meal, a child a snack, or a Mother’s Day morning surprise. The Serving Tray is also good for while you watch TV in bed or on the couch, perhaps while paying bills or working in a more leisurely manner.

The Tea Cup/Mug Stand is perfect for your coffee or tea while enjoying a nice read. Perhaps while basking in peaceful solitude on the porch or in the sun room. Bring this antique style stand with a refreshed Americana twist into your home today!

The Folding Table under our TV Tray Table category has been a customer favorite for over 35 years, and now you can bring home this item at a more inexpensive rate. We imagine it’ll give a great preview to the quality of our TV Tray Table sets.

Need a few inches to get something around the kitchen? The garage? Maybe for the little ones to reach the sink? The Step Stool is an inexpensive way to own a nice American crafted solid wood item that’s hefty and durable, which is important for its many uses.

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.

Win a Manchester Wood Chairside Storage Table!

Manchester Wood's Chairside Storage Table - Top Selling Item of 2011!

This month’s FREE item from Manchester Wood, an American made solid wood furniture company who runs a monthly giveaway series is offering this February their top selling item of 2011, the Chairside Storage Table.

With its amazing hidden storage design and Americana flavoring, this sturdy American crafted Chairside Storage Table is a customer favorite priced at $199.95, but now you can own it for FREE!

To enter the drawing for this prized piece of American made craftsmanship, invite 10 friends to “like” Manchester Wood’s Facebook page (www.Facebook.com/ManchesterWood).

Then, email service@manchesterwood.com the names of the friends who liked the page, your name, and your shipping address. This will enter you into the select raffle drawing! As with all our products, FREE shipping will be provided.

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.

God bless you always,

Manchester Wood: American Made Furniture

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

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.