Amish Rustic Log Furniture

By Jason Cheney

Amish Log furniture brings direct to your home a harmonious balance with nature. These handcrafted, primal, Amish Log furniture designs provide a warm comfort to the inhabitants of your home. For decades the Adirondack, Lodge or Cabin décor style has been well-known as the most comforting and comfortable design style available. "Great Camp" design originated in the mid-1800s with wealthy native New Yorkers building their country retreats in the nearby Adirondack Mountains. An architectural legacy of William West Durant, it has influenced design exteriors and interiors for over 150 years.

The style blends seamlessly with others of that era such as Arts and Crafts Mission Movement or Craftsman furnishings. Now, through the incomparable woodworkers of the Amish communities, you too can recreate the surroundings of the great outdoors in your own country Lodge.

Your rustic log furniture is understated and classic. Simple decorating ideas and good furniture in neutral and natural materials create a retreat with an ageless appeal. The Great Camp style is cozy enough to wrap around you like a flannel shirt in winter but stylish enough to be admired by guests. Because they were created from nature each one can be said to be a one-of-a-kind. The Amish Log Furniture series has armoires, hope chests, nightstands, dressers, gun cabinets, benches, canopy and bunk beds, end and coffee tables in artisan hand crafted, old fashioned, traditional designs. Your only problem will be in deciding between skin peeled pine or red cedar.
The primary feature of the Amish Log furniture is the use of materials from the forest.

Ornamentally these pieces are hand decorated with bark, branches and twigs. Each log and twig is especially chosen for their shape and texture; even down to the decorative "twigs" trim. All of the Amish drawer boxes are fully dovetailed with slab fronts. Full extension ball bearing glides are selected for ease of use and durability as your furniture is used day after day for generations.
The Amish hope chest is the perfect gift for a graduation celebration, newlyweds or a young adult to store their precious mementos in. The hope cedar chest was created by Amish wood workers to be enjoyed for a lifetime and handed down to the next generation. This chest also makes an inventive coffee table or bench for the foot of the bed.

In the double drawer armoire you find more than a closet. This, like all Amish Log furniture is an heirloom design. With the height at a full 53", it is perfect as a baby shower gift for a child's personal clothing, books, diapers, etc. The substantial five drawers and a door armoire wardrobe is a great choice as a bachelor's chest. The drawers can hold t-shirts, socks, undergarments, while the doored cabinet can hold stacks of jeans or winter clothes.

Take your once ordinary bedroom to the comfort level of a log cabin retreat deep in the woods with your own Amish Log furniture. What a great bed to display a family heirloom quilt or a luxurious fur, faux or real, across its foot. Worried about losing feminine design elements? There is nothing more romantic or feminine that a storybook canopy bed made from solid wood. Because of its design, by nature rustically resilient, this furniture can withstand more wear than other designs. Add a great log bench at the foot for dressing in the morning or for folding your clothes or bedspread on in the evening.

Step up your living room simply by adding the Log design to your common area. Your new Cabin showplace will have unique personality and style. With the simple purchase of a log coffee and end table you can bring your home into the Adirondack era. Careful placement of some beautiful Mission arts and crafts, a few baskets and a plaid throw will create a warm place your friends and family will feel welcome in.

The inherent nature of Great Camp décor elements is to highlight playing in the great outdoors. It is a perfect way to show off or display vintage collectibles from camping and picnicking to sports, fishing, and hunting. The Amish Log gun case is a cabinet that will hold things from your everyday hunting shotgun to grandpa's vintage Winchester rifle. This Amish artisan gun cabinet holds up to 6 long guns, shot guns or rifles. To ensure safety the door and drawer lock securely. The drawer features English (full) dovetail construction with a slab front and full extension drawer glides.

It is a bold and rewarding challenge to recreate the tradition of the great camps of the Adirondack Mountains with yourlog furniture. Cabin and Great Camp designs are as timeless as Mission and as practical, too. Log furniture is an investment in artistic design work. These furnishings are refined but casual and relaxed and create a gathering friendly atmosphere. Only premium woods, stains and finishes are ever used with Amish craftsmen because they are created to last a lifetime.

Making your home the comforting place that really expresses who you are is what log furniture is all about. The rustic feel and strength hand made furniture has, whether is pine, cedar or hickory is like no other. To see a wide selection of hand made Amish log furniture visit http://www.amishdirectfurniture.com/
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