15% off our Equinox Rocker for First Day of “Equinox Spring”

Our Equinox Rocker and Adirondack Side Table

Manchester Wood celebrates the first day of “Equinox Spring,” the technical name for the first day of spring, which is today, March 20th with 15% off our Equinox Rocker till the following week, March 27th.

Why “Equinox Spring”? Well, the name “equinox” is derived from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night) as the night and day have approximately equal length during this time period. The tilt of the Earth’s axis is neither to one side or the other, which means the center of the Sun is the same as the Earth’s equator. Spring for many of us around the World then means longer days, and the equinox is the reason. So in celebration of these longer, sunnier days upon us, Manchester Wood is offering a sale of 15% off our Equinox Rocking Chair!

The Equinox Rocker has quickly become a customer favorite among our many prized solid wood outdoor furniture pieces. The name was originally inspired by Equinox Mountain in Manchester, Vermont, our hometown and the birthplace of Manchester Wood. The rocking chair has many similar lines to our famous Adirondack Chair, but also boasts it’s own, very distinct features. With straighter back support and seating design compared to its Adirondack Chair counterpart, this versatile outdoor furniture item is a beautiful addition to any country home while enjoying the outdoors. You may also wish to complete the set for your deck or patio by purchasing our entire Equinox Collection, which includes chairs and benches of the same aesthetic.

To buy this great solid wood furniture piece at it’s special discounted rate March 20th-27th, type “EQX” in the coupon code box at check-out for 15% off, which includes FREE SHIPPING. Like Manchester Wood’s entire American made furniture products, the Equinox Rocker is made in the USA, handcrafted in our mill with the highest quality natural hardwood resources of the Northeast forests.

What better outdoor furniture to own then that made from the Adirondacks, in the Adirondacks. Be sure to check out our whole Outdoor Collection featuring our famous Adirondack Chair, and its featured add-ons as well as Kid’s furniture, benches, chairs, end tables, footstools, and more. We’re entering the season of outdoor furniture; take us with you this spring and summer.

To view the Equinox Rocker, currently available at 15% off, click here.
For our entire Outdoor Collection, click here.

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.

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.

Space Effective Furniture

Manchester Wood prides itself on producing small, compact furniture with storage solutions in several styles of locations for the home. We’ve released several top sellers this past year that our ideal in Apartments, Condominiums, Senior Homes, and those tight spaces needing to be utilized.

Check out our Cabinet Furniture

Our Chairside Storage Table is an item we discuss often, as it has been praised the most by customers for it’s convenient uses. Also our Compact Desk is great for paying bills, or for a tight computer space, and handling other basic dealings for the home.

Jelly Cabinets have also been taking off, a classic design with tons of storage space. Our Tall Double Jelly Cabinet was actually recently selected by ABC’s World News with Diane Sawyer’s Made in America series.

For mobility, our Multipurpose Cart and TV Tray Tables have always been a great choice. Both items have been classic products over the past 25 years for us. We’ve experienced nothing but positive feedback since their introduction.

From the aesthetic prospective, our Underwindow Bookcase and Periodical End Table are the best fit. The Underwindow Bookcase is beautifully designed to store your possessions while giving you a clear view to see the beauty that surrounds you outside – which at times can be a critical way to gain inspiration.

Whatever you’re looking for when it comes to furniture, especially space effective pieces, please consider Manchester Wood – crafted in America from Solid Hardwood.

Check out our online catalog here: http://www.manchesterwood.com

Shaker Furniture

A.J. Macdonald once commented Shaker furniture was originally designed in heaven and that the patterns had been transmitted to the Shaker people by angels. +

I can imagine that feeling Macdonald once had regarding early pilgrims of America started their new lives in a world open to possibility. This furniture line shows the religious order and simplicity of the time.

Shaker styled furniture has craft traditions rooted heavily in colonial New York and New England. Farmers, Mechanics, Small Tradesmen made up most of the consumer base for Shaker Furniture in early America. A humble, basic product, with a thoughtful development of design and craftsmanship is the essential character.

At Manchester Wood, our Shaker Collection touches on the history of its lineage in design adding contemporary appeal for the 21^st Century.

We hope you find the basic needs in life, especially in furniture, as much fun as we do!

+John Humphrey Noyes. History of American Socialisms, pp. 602-603.

Kids Furniture!

Children tend to be the forefront of most lives, and for good reason.

They’re our future, reflected beings of us, carrying on the ancient tradition.

We need them, and they need us.

Sometimes I wonder if we need them more.

Encouraging active participation from our kids is extremely important. Whether it’s to build their budding confidence, engaging in something with elders, or preparing them for the unexpected.

At Manchester Wood we started a Kids line not just because we love them, but also because they wanted to sit in an Adirondack Chair like Mom and Dad!

So after popular kid demand, we’ve introduced the Kid’s Adirondack Chair and Kid’s Morris Chair, partnered products to the grown-up pieces.

The line has continued to grow, and will over the next years to come.

Check out our Kids section by clicking here, I hope they find what they need!

A Manchester Wood Collection: Jelly Cabinets

The land in America is abundant, no doubt about that.

Early in the 19^th century the United States started to find it’s identity.

Immigrants, stragglers, hustlers, and revelers looking to answer this thing we call Life.

Ready to grab it by the horns, and ride it   to death, laughing in victory.

Jelly Cupboards and Cabinets became a household staple to our early pilgrimage.

The popularity of the item grew from New England, spreading as far West it could.

It wasn’t a hard sales pitch.

By 1830, everyone seemed to be eating jelly.

Grape, Mint, even Jalapeno jelly in the Southwest would find storage in the kitchen.

At Manchester Wood we participate in the tradition of Jelly Cabinets, and are proud to offer these pieces, a part of early American culture.

Click here to see our collection.

Where do you put your stuff?

“That’s all your house is, it’s a pile of stuff with a cover on it…”

George Carlin jokingly (perhaps not) once conveyed about our lives.

We all, generally speaking, do love stuff, and we do need places for that stuff.

Our Storage Solutions line is our answer to that call.

We’ve focused on space efficiency and functionality along with style in storing items. From the early stages of our company we produced the popular Multipurpose Cart, a Periodical End Table with Magazine Rack, and more recently our deceiving stuff holding piece, the Chairside Storage Table. Perfect for hiding away most possessions in a classy end table fashion.

“The Mill,” which is what most of our employees call our factory, is located near one of the richest slate deposits in the World. Glacial masses imprinted our land with beautifully colored slate thousands of years ago, leaving us to work with it.

We’ve used local slate on many pieces of furniture, and one of those pieces includes the Slate Top Console Table. It’s a magnificent piece of furniture with great storage capacity.

So that’s our take on stuff, although it doesn’t define us, we do like holding onto things we cherish, which reaches far beyond furniture… and stuff.

Check out our Storage Solutions section here.

Ups and Downs: Life at “The Mill”

I’ve just started painting our lunchroom. Revamping it after years of hard use.

It’s amazing how many moving parts there are at a factory. The constant motions, change, fixing, rebuilding, but the community of it, remains the same forever.

Sure like every relationship, it has its ups and downs, hard times and good.

It helps when something comes along and humbles you. Waking you up from the everyday repetitive loop you can linger in.

Last week, we had a spontaneous combustion fire here at “the mill,” our factory and home to more than fifty employees.

The event surely humbled and awoke us.

We were very fortunate, walking away with minimal damage.

Life can remind you in harsh and subtle ways that in fact it can end or change at any moment.

On that dreaded Sunday night, anxiously racing over, we found several employees coming in at different times to help.

No time cards clocked, working into the late hours of the night only to be back Monday morning, just a  few short hours later.

This week we wish to thank all of our employees for their dedication to Manchester Wood. Also to all manufacturing companies in America who fight everyday to survive in our country.

To the hardworking and downtrodden, your fellow man thanks you.

Also to our Mother Earth for giving us such amazing resources!