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!

Thanksgiving

We’re approaching Thanksgiving. For many, it’s a time of celebration with family and friends. Which may mean for you supplying not only food, but also the means to stretch your space to accommodate company.

Here at Manchester Wood we have a few items we think would make great purchases this holiday season as the family visits for Thanksgiving.

Our always-popular TV Tray Tables make great additional space for dining, as well as our Gourmet Kitchen Island and Mission Carts, which make a great buffet or beverage station.

Regardless of these listed products and the over 100 more items we produce, our honest best wishes extend to you and yours this holiday season.

As always, Manchester Wood exclusively uses American produced solid hardwood lumber and craft our solid wood furniture in a small manufacturing plant at the foothills of the Adirondacks in upstate New York.

Living in your Rooms: Designing for the 21st Century

The objects we possess that hold special and important memories are the most natural and spiritual expressions of your unique “lifestyle.” Whether in art, pictures, or furniture, we hope the presence of our Manchester Wood pieces spark the same sense of positive creation in your day. After all, everything we showcase and use in our homes should accent and excite our life.

Some feel when designing rooms that a luxurious feel may mean not ideal comfort for the sake of artistic expression, but that’s not necessarily true. Luxury is found in making yourself and others completely comfortable, no desire felt by anyone to leave this oasis you created.

We believe through our coffee tables, end tables, slate-top or solid wood, tray tables, and bookcases, you’ll find the key ingredients to create a successful living space.

Your Living Room is in fact that, a room you live and share in. It’s important to think of all your rooms like that when designing and furnishing spaces. The exciting part is recognizing the change and growth you make as your rooms evolve to match the present you!

As we enter the cold months of the season here on the east coast, our outdoor interests in furnishings turn towards indoor, working on the scenery we hide in away from the cold. We hope you find what you’re looking for at Manchester Wood when designing your living spaces with quality products that will last generations.

All our furniture is proudly still made in America from solid hardwood in the Adirondack foothills of Upstate New York and the Green Mountain valleys of Vermont.

Entertainment Consoles: Introducing our 21st Century Living

Furniture changes as we do.

Our culture constantly moves and transitions to new popular ideas.

Contemporary Media Stand (shown with Chestnut finish)

Technology has greatly evolved in our living rooms, from once large and bulky television sets to now sleek, thin, lightweight flat screens. Our entertainment products are rapidly changing. Less has become more, and that includes the huge, clunky entertainment consoles finding their way out the door.

Shaker Entertainment Stand (shown with Golden Oak finish)

At Manchester Wood we’ve been designing and prototyping several versions of new entertainment furniture pieces, finalizing with three prized items for any living room.

First, our Shaker Entertainment Console, a shaker inspired conception, but with more flare and creative design, including a center cabinet with open storage space on either side to display your music or film collection.

Farmhouse Media Center (shown with Golden Oak finish)

We continue the country living theme with our next piece, the Farmhouse Media Center. It finds similarity to the Shaker Entertainment Console, but features two cabinets for your collections as well as convenient shelving for your cable box, DVD player, and surround sound controls.

Our Contemporary Media Stand is the most elegant piece of our new installments to entertainment furniture. It’s smooth and lustrous appearance finds appeal far beyond the country living theme. The simplicity and fine detail in design makes this a very alluring item in any room of entertainment.

As three items enter the market, we continue to strive for more in future collection work, but we find pleasure in discussing and providing you the fruit of our labor.

All of our products are proudly made in America with local solid hardwood to boot.
We hope you find what you’re looking for.

To view this collection, click here.

Solid Wood Cherry Furniture

We mentioned earlier in a previous article how we produce much of our furniture with White ash, but we’ve recently stretched further into North American Hardwoods with the use of Cherry.

Although White ash is the “premier species” for strong, durable wood, Cherry has similar attributes, but also carries a beautiful natural finish that White ash has a hard time competing with.

The beauty in finish is not all that makes this wood so remarkable.

Cherry is a prolific seeder.

Not only does it seed well in its current habitat, but it continues to spread in North America as well as into Mexico, even now, Brazil.

It’s a highly prized wood, but only represents a very small percentage of total lumber production.

In fact, its amazing growth in America points to several reasons.

Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers, Inc. has cited one interesting reason.

They mention that birds help in assuring the fast spreading seeds of future Cherry trees.

The tree provides many birds with a steady diet, but those seeds that drop from the sky tend to find a new home to grow in.

Take a look at our Solid Cherry Collection, and see how beautiful this wood is.

We also thank the birds and other natural cycles that have allowed this tree to grow to our present use and continuing prevalence.