About Us
About 20-30 years ago, the Arthur Amish community recognized that they were facing increasingly expensive land costs to continue their farming way of life. They resolved at that time to adopt woodworking as an acceptable alternative to farming to create jobs and keep their people employed. They also took the stance that they would not boast of their craft through advertising, but instead let the quality of their work speak for itself and let word of mouth be their marketing tool. This adoption of top quality has helped to make the Arthur Amish community into the largest hand crafted oak furniture producing area in the country.
Our Wood Stores: Our niche is that we represent
many of the Arthur Amish
custom woodshops to you, the public, and thus help
to allow them to limit their contact with the
outside world. We started our store when, aware of
our retail and woodworking background, a number of
Amish shops expressed a need to us for an "in town"
showroom which they were not able to provide. While
now a few shops have their own showrooms, many still
feel that they would rather keep some distance from
the general public. Helping them keep a separation,
plus our ability to assist you with design ideas
that make your items truly custom pieces, sets us
apart.
In our main store, we feature locally Amish
produced, quality custom oak furniture. While we'd
be happy to help you select or design an heirloom
piece of furniture and ship it to you, we also
thought that you might be interested here in
smaller, table top items which make wonderful,
functional home accents, and even greater gifts. All
are Arthur Amish made and come with our
unconditional guarantee of satisfaction. We
also carry other great gifts and food products such
as Soybean based candles, gourmet coffee whole beans
or ground, and a wide variety of gourmet teas.
We encourage people to visit us at our store in downtown Arthur in order to get a view of the quality custom wood craftsmanship. It gives people the chance to see furniture made in cherry, hickory, oak, and maple in a wide variety of stain colors. Our showroom features different styles of tables, chairs, hutches, bedroom, living room, entertainment centers and office furniture. We also encourage people to bring in their own drawings or sketches of custom furniture that they would like built. We can also custom build furniture in many styles including Mission, Country, Queen Anne, Shaker, and Victorian in your choice of woods including oak, hickory, walnut, cherry, quarter sawn oak and maple.
Our Quilt Involvement: Arthur has a long tradition of quilting, both in the Amish and
"English" population, many making quilts for both personal use, and as fund raising efforts
for community events and family needs. Over the years, there have been numerous small "country shops"
that have come and gone that offered local quilts and quilt supplies.
In the early 2000's, a number of these small country shops closed to allow the operators to concentrate
on other family ventures, leaving a need for someone to help display and market local quilts.
With our other involvement in the country woodshops over the last 30 years, we know most of the local folks
and without much prodding, many ladies brought thier excess quilts not needed for fundraisers or
family to us to help sell for "pin money."
In a short time we had a store full of beautiful, and wonderfully constructed local quilts to go along with our custom furniture business. The web expansion followed and here we are.
Us Personally: Our family members have been retailers on main street in Arthur for three generations. We've been successfully serving the public in a number of retail areas over these years and more specifically have been involved in the custom Amish furniture and wood industry since 1970. We have an Arthur history that we are proud of.
Our roots are deep, and our success in retail has been based on value and service. We guarantee that you will be happy with any piece of custom Amish furniture or gift you buy from us. Our quality is second to none, and you'll find our prices very fair.