The Benefits of Custom Wood Furniture

Consider the following questions:
Have you seen a furniture design that you like, but the wood or the finish applied was not ideal?
Do you have a uniquely shaped or sized area in your home that demands a custom piece of wood furniture or cabinetry?
Do you need a new piece of wood furniture that must match an existing collection of pieces, and have been unable to find that match in commercially-produced furniture?
Do you require a set of built-in cabinets which match the furnishings in the room, but can't find any pre-manufactured cabinetry that has the same color or design features?
One of the most obvious benefits of custom wood furniture and cabinetry is that you don't have to compromise what you really want when you make purchase decisions like the ones described above. Since it's not already built, you have total control over all aspects of the design; the size, style, wood, trim and molding details, decorative hardware, and finish.

Long-Term Value:
Many couples starting families often cannot afford to buy high-end quality furniture or cabinetry, and even if they can, they often choose less expensive pieces due to the rugged use they will receive from young children. However, after years of owning disposable furniture or cabinetry, many look for finely built pieces that are more luxurious and will stand the test of time.

Intelligent homeowners have long recognized the increase in home equity achieved by installing quality kitchen and bathroom cabinets, and other built-in components; entertainment centers, home theaters, home offices, library units, etc.

Costs:
Prices for custom built furniture and cabinetry are generally higher than those found in high-end factory showrooms, but not in all cases. Given that custom wood furniture will be built to your exact specifications with no compromises, it is worth paying a little extra.

A quote, often attributed to Benjamin Franklin, makes this point perfectly:

"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price has been forgotten."

One last thing to realize is that properly built custom wood furniture will appreciate over time, unlike mass-produced pieces that literally begin to depreciate from the moment it's loaded onto a truck for delivery to your home. so go see our web site @ www.andersonwoodwork.net

Anderson woodwork's is a fully custom wood shop. We provide close personal service to assure that we meet you’re design requirements. Full service from the design phase through delivery and installation assures that the objects we craft are functional, durable and beautiful. we use traditional joinery and technique’s that have been tested thru time Anderson Woodworks believes that quality and beauty are the utmost importance Entertainment Cabinets, Home Offices, Libraries, Bookcases, Display Cabinets, Bars, Custom Doors Bedroom sets are examples of our most requested items. jus call 360-923-2203 or visitwww.andersonwoodwork.net

The benefits of buying handmade studio furniture

Stores sell everything under the sun, but not everything is top-quality, especially these days. Prices are continually going up, and quality is going down. The quality of manufactured items is at an all-time low, but some people are forced to buy them. They do not realize that they have other choices. Handmade items are generally far better in more ways than one, and they should be sought out whenever possible. Consider these reasons to buy handmade items, and discover why handcrafted goods are almost always better than anything made by machine.

They are Higher in Quality than Manufactured Goods

Quality is one of the biggest reasons to buy handmade items. Things made by machine are not nearly as good - at least not always. When a person that cares about their handiwork creates something they consider valuable, it will be of the highest quality in every possible way. This is especially true if they connect their name with the items they sell. They want people to buy their goods, and they want them to appreciate the quality.

Handmade Items are Made with Pride

Another one of the greatest reasons to buy handmade items is the amount of pride that goes into each and every stitch, brushstroke or whatever it takes to create it. If someone cares, it will most certainly show. They will care about mistakes and imperfections. This goes back to quality. Human beings are capable of creating amazing works of art whether they are designed from cloth, wood, yarn, canvas, clay or something else altogether.

They are Highly Unique

Handmade items are highly unique. Even if they have been traced or stenciled, no two items are exactly the same. This is another one of the main reasons why people should buy handmade items over store bought things. Their uniqueness makes them worth far more than anything similar made by machine. Handmade words of art or everyday items vary in unique and appealing ways.

Handmade Items are Priceless in the True Sense of the Word

Considering the aforementioned reasons to buy handmade items, they are priceless in the true sense of the word. Almost everything tangible is assigned a value, but it is the uniqueness and level of quality that makes handmade items truly precious. Buy handcrafted products whenever possible, and fill your home with unique decor, furniture, fabrics and other goods of the highest quality.

Artisans do not get paid for their time. When calculating what they earn for every hour they carve, paint, sand, cut and stitch their work, they receive only pennies, but the results are nothing short of spectacular when they craft their items with talent, pride and passion.

well it is a new Year lets have a new outcome buy local and look at quality rather then price tag it is a better value when you spend a little more and don't forget support local artiest they can provide better customer service for your product . the local community will benefit better then sending your money else where.

hear is a report i found

Buying Local: How It Boosts the Economy

By JUDITH D. SCHWARTZ Thursday, June 11, 2009

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"Buy Local"—you see the decal in the store window, the sign at the farmer's market, the bright, cheerful logos for Local First Arizona, Think Boise First, Our Milwaukee, and homegrown versions across the states. The apparent message is "let's-support-local-business", a kind of community boosterism. But buying close to home may be more than a feel-good, it's-worth-paying-more-for-local matter. A number of researchers and organizations are taking a closer look at how money flows, and what they're finding shows the profound economic impact of keeping money in town—and how the fate of many communities around the nation and the world increasingly depend on it.

At the most basic level, when you buy local more money stays in the community. The New Economics Foundation, an independent economic think tank based in London, compared what happens when people buy produce at a supermarket vs. a local farmer's market or community supported agriculture (CSA) program and found that twice the money stayed in the community when folks bought locally. "That means those purchases are twice as efficient in terms of keeping the local economy alive," says author and NEF researcher David Boyle. (See the top 10 food trends of 2008.)

Indeed, says Boyle, many local economies are languishing not because too little cash comes in, but as a result of what happens to that money. "Money is like blood. It needs to keep moving around to keep the economy going," he says, noting that when money is spent elsewhere—at big supermarkets, non-locally owned utilities and other services such as on-line retailers—"it flows out, like a wound." By shopping at the corner store instead of the big box, consumers keep their communities from becoming what the NEF calls "ghost towns" (areas devoid of neighborhood shops and services) or "clone towns", where Main Street now looks like every other Main Street with the same fast-food and retail chains.

According to Susan Witt, Executive Director of the E.F. Schumacher Society, "buy local" campaigns serve another function: alerting a community about gaps in the local market. For instance, if consumers keep turning to on-line or big-box stores for a particular product—say, socks—this signals an opportunity for someone local to make and sell socks. This is the way product innovations get made, says Witt. "The local producer adds creative elements that make either the product or materials used more appropriate to the place." For example, an area where sheep are raised might make lambs wool socks and other goods.

The point is not that communities should suddenly seek to be self-sufficient in all ways, but rather, says Boyle, "to shift the balance. Can you produce more locally? Of course you can if the raw materials are there, and the raw materials are often human beings."

And what about that higher cost of local goods? After all, big-box stores got to be big because their prices are low. Susan Witt says that the difference falls away once you consider the increase in local employment as well as the relationships that grow when people buy from people they know. (Plus, one could argue, lower transportation, and therefore environmental, costs, and you know what you're getting—which as we've recently seen with suspected contamination in toys and other products from China, can be a concern.)

There's also the matter of local/regional resilience. Says Witt: "While now we're largely a service-providing nation, we're still just a generation away from being a nation of producers. The question is: what economic framework will help us reclaim those skills and that potential." Say, for example, the exchange rates change or the price of oil rises (and it has started to creep up, if not at last summer's pace) so that foreign-made goods are no longer cheap to import. We could find ourselves doubly stuck because domestic manufacturing is no longer set up to make all these products. While no community functions in isolation, supporting local trade helps "recreate the diversity of small businesses that are flexible and can adjust" to changing needs and market conditions, says Witt. (Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning Up.")

Another argument for buying local is that it enhances the "velocity" of money, or circulation speed, in the area. The idea is that if currency circulates more quickly, the money passes through more hands—and more people have had the benefit of the money and what it has purchased for them. "If you're buying local and not at a chain or branch store, chances are that store is not making a huge profit," says David Morris, Vice President of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a nonprofit economic research and development organization based in Minneapolis and Washington, D.C. "That means more goes into input costs—supplies and upkeep, printing, advertising, paying employees—which puts that money right back in the community."

One way to really make sure money stays in the community is through creating a local currency. Christian Gelleri, a former Waldorf high school teacher in the Lake Chiem area in Germany, has launched a regional currency, the Chiemgauer, equivalent in value to the Euro. According to Gelleri, the Chiemgauer, accepted at more than 600 businesses in the region and with about $3,000,000 Euros worth in circulation, has three times the velocity of the Euro, circling through the economy an average of 18 times a year as opposed to 6. One reason for the fast turnaround is that the Chiemgauer is designed to encourage spending: there is a 2% demurrage fee for holding onto the bills beyond three months.

As an economic principle, velocity has been considered a constant. According to Gelleri, it was stable in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s but starting in the '80s velocity has decreased as more money has been diverted to the financial sector. This scenario may benefit financial centers, but money tends to drain away from other places. Gelleri says that both the Euro and the U.S. dollar have slowed way down. "In the last several months velocity has declined sharply because there's less GDP and more money," he says. "The money doesn't flow. More money is being printed, but it's not going into circulation."

As the nation limps through the recession, many towns and cities are hurting. "Buy-local" campaigns can help local economies withstand the downturn. Says Boyle: "For communities, this is a hopeful message in a recession because it's not about how much money you've got, but how much you can keep circulating without letting it leak out."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1903632,00.html#ixzz1iPQZWdI8

well it is a new Year lets have a new outcome buy local and look at quality rather then price tag it is a better value when you spend a little more and don't forget support local artiest they can provide better customer service for your product . the local community will benefit better then sending your money else where.

hear is a report i found

Buying Local: How It Boosts the Economy

By JUDITH D. SCHWARTZ Thursday, June 11, 2009

Dave Cutler / Images.com / Corbis

• PRINT
• EMAIL
• REPRINTS

SHARE

inShare28

"Buy Local"—you see the decal in the store window, the sign at the farmer's market, the bright, cheerful logos for Local First Arizona, Think Boise First, Our Milwaukee, and homegrown versions across the states. The apparent message is "let's-support-local-business", a kind of community boosterism. But buying close to home may be more than a feel-good, it's-worth-paying-more-for-local matter. A number of researchers and organizations are taking a closer look at how money flows, and what they're finding shows the profound economic impact of keeping money in town—and how the fate of many communities around the nation and the world increasingly depend on it.

At the most basic level, when you buy local more money stays in the community. The New Economics Foundation, an independent economic think tank based in London, compared what happens when people buy produce at a supermarket vs. a local farmer's market or community supported agriculture (CSA) program and found that twice the money stayed in the community when folks bought locally. "That means those purchases are twice as efficient in terms of keeping the local economy alive," says author and NEF researcher David Boyle. (See the top 10 food trends of 2008.)

Indeed, says Boyle, many local economies are languishing not because too little cash comes in, but as a result of what happens to that money. "Money is like blood. It needs to keep moving around to keep the economy going," he says, noting that when money is spent elsewhere—at big supermarkets, non-locally owned utilities and other services such as on-line retailers—"it flows out, like a wound." By shopping at the corner store instead of the big box, consumers keep their communities from becoming what the NEF calls "ghost towns" (areas devoid of neighborhood shops and services) or "clone towns", where Main Street now looks like every other Main Street with the same fast-food and retail chains.

According to Susan Witt, Executive Director of the E.F. Schumacher Society, "buy local" campaigns serve another function: alerting a community about gaps in the local market. For instance, if consumers keep turning to on-line or big-box stores for a particular product—say, socks—this signals an opportunity for someone local to make and sell socks. This is the way product innovations get made, says Witt. "The local producer adds creative elements that make either the product or materials used more appropriate to the place." For example, an area where sheep are raised might make lambs wool socks and other goods.

The point is not that communities should suddenly seek to be self-sufficient in all ways, but rather, says Boyle, "to shift the balance. Can you produce more locally? Of course you can if the raw materials are there, and the raw materials are often human beings."

And what about that higher cost of local goods? After all, big-box stores got to be big because their prices are low. Susan Witt says that the difference falls away once you consider the increase in local employment as well as the relationships that grow when people buy from people they know. (Plus, one could argue, lower transportation, and therefore environmental, costs, and you know what you're getting—which as we've recently seen with suspected contamination in toys and other products from China, can be a concern.)

There's also the matter of local/regional resilience. Says Witt: "While now we're largely a service-providing nation, we're still just a generation away from being a nation of producers. The question is: what economic framework will help us reclaim those skills and that potential." Say, for example, the exchange rates change or the price of oil rises (and it has started to creep up, if not at last summer's pace) so that foreign-made goods are no longer cheap to import. We could find ourselves doubly stuck because domestic manufacturing is no longer set up to make all these products. While no community functions in isolation, supporting local trade helps "recreate the diversity of small businesses that are flexible and can adjust" to changing needs and market conditions, says Witt. (Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning Up.")

Another argument for buying local is that it enhances the "velocity" of money, or circulation speed, in the area. The idea is that if currency circulates more quickly, the money passes through more hands—and more people have had the benefit of the money and what it has purchased for them. "If you're buying local and not at a chain or branch store, chances are that store is not making a huge profit," says David Morris, Vice President of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a nonprofit economic research and development organization based in Minneapolis and Washington, D.C. "That means more goes into input costs—supplies and upkeep, printing, advertising, paying employees—which puts that money right back in the community."

One way to really make sure money stays in the community is through creating a local currency. Christian Gelleri, a former Waldorf high school teacher in the Lake Chiem area in Germany, has launched a regional currency, the Chiemgauer, equivalent in value to the Euro. According to Gelleri, the Chiemgauer, accepted at more than 600 businesses in the region and with about $3,000,000 Euros worth in circulation, has three times the velocity of the Euro, circling through the economy an average of 18 times a year as opposed to 6. One reason for the fast turnaround is that the Chiemgauer is designed to encourage spending: there is a 2% demurrage fee for holding onto the bills beyond three months.

As an economic principle, velocity has been considered a constant. According to Gelleri, it was stable in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s but starting in the '80s velocity has decreased as more money has been diverted to the financial sector. This scenario may benefit financial centers, but money tends to drain away from other places. Gelleri says that both the Euro and the U.S. dollar have slowed way down. "In the last several months velocity has declined sharply because there's less GDP and more money," he says. "The money doesn't flow. More money is being printed, but it's not going into circulation."

As the nation limps through the recession, many towns and cities are hurting. "Buy-local" campaigns can help local economies withstand the downturn. Says Boyle: "For communities, this is a hopeful message in a recession because it's not about how much money you've got, but how much you can keep circulating without letting it leak out."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1903632,00.html#ixzz1iPQZWdI8

I have been building a bunch of fly boxes this month they were selling like hotcakes.

Well it has been a while sense I last posted to this it was getting ruff but I think we will be all right. I am getting a little busier and I think people are starting feel that they can do a little more. I hope to get some furniture out soon. In the mean time I have been building my Rubio work table for the studio I is a cherry top with maple legs it will be a nice addition am also going to be in the Olympia arts walk agene need to be seen in the community. Well I need to get in the studio and work so hopefully I will start doing this moor often.