The Guide to Amish Kitchen Tables

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The Guide to Amish Kitchen
Tables

• Since the mid-1700s, when the first Amish and
  Mennonite settlers arrived in the USA, these
  communities, who eventually also became known as
  the Pennsylvania Dutch, have been living simple,
  but rich lives, separate from the hurly-burly of
  modern living, and with unique traditions
  stretching back to their origins in Europe.

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The Guide to Amish Kitchen
Tables

• Amish dining table with self-storing leaves
• Belleville Leg Extension Table
• Among these traditions is the humble Amish
  kitchen table, which serves as a workplace, a
  meeting place and the communal center of the
  home, where food is shared, the workday is
  planned and discussions of familial gravity are
  held. Tables like these are built for a couple
  starting out in their lives together, passed down
  from generation to generation, and made to last
  more than one lifetime-- the Amish, after all, do
  not believe in creating waste, but rather in
  building for the long term.

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The Guide to Amish Kitchen
Tables

• Amish kitchen tables are created to live in the
  family home, and usually built to accommodate the
  family unit plus guests. They are frequently used
  for housework as well, to knead dough for bread,
  cut pieces of meat and vegetable for the pot, and
  prepare dozens of delicacies for celebrations. An
  Amish kitchen table must be strong, hard-working
  and able to withstand generations of taking a
  beating, while still looking as beautiful and
  strong as the day it was made. If you are looking
  for an Amish kitchen table to grace your home,
  here are a few things to look out for

• Carson Leg Extension Table

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The Guide to Amish Kitchen
Tables

• 1-- The Wood
• All Amish furniture, including kitchen tables,
  are made with wood that lasts-- good quality
  hardwood. You can expect a table that lasts for
  decades, and even centuries, if it is well made
  and cared for something your family can also
  pass on from generation to generation.

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The Guide to Amish Kitchen
Tables

• 2-- Quality of manufacture
• An Amish family's kitchen table is expected to be
  as hard-working as the people who use it, so
  every table is made to exacting quality
  standards. The craft and art of making Amish
  furniture is taught one-on-one and a craftsman is
  only allowed to call himself that once his
  teacher deems his work to be good enough.
  Mass-production doesn't happen with Amish kitchen
  tables, so if your table comes off a factory
  production line, it isn't Amish!

Amish dining room tables and chairs
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The Guide to Amish Kitchen
Tables

• Ethan Leg Extension Table
• 3-- The Style
• Plain living is at the heart of Amish life--
  excess decoration, loads of delicate and froufrou
  frills and curves are better left to other
  people, not this community. You can see it in
  their clothes, their homes and their furniture
  simple, hard-working and designed to do a job is
  the Amish way, and it's the style you can expect
  from your table, too. That doesn't mean every
  piece isn't unique and beautiful, of course, it
  just isn't covered in curlicues and delicate
  engravings.

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The Guide to Amish Kitchen
Tables

• 4-- The Manufacturer
• Many have tried to replicate Amish furniture, and
  some have even come close to getting it right,
  but it isn't truly Amish if it isn't Amish-made.
• Shaker Mission Leg Extension Table
• 5-- The Size
• Amish kitchen tables, much like their farm
  tables, are designed to seat as many people as
  possible. Families are large, extended families
  even larger, and the work done on these tables
  can stretch for several feet. A proper Amish
  kitchen table will seat at least ten people
  comfortably.
• Solid wood dining table sets

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The Guide to Amish Kitchen
Tables

• Amish kitchen tables are created to live in the
  family home, and usually built to accommodate the
  family unit plus guests. An Amish kitchen table
  must be strong, able and hard-working to
  withstand generations of taking a beating, while
  still looking as beautiful and strong as the day
  it was made. An Amish family's kitchen table is
  expected to be as hard-working as the people who
  use it, so every table is made to exacting
  quality standards. Mass-production doesn't happen
  with Amish kitchen tables, so if your table comes
  off a factory production line, it isn't Amish!
• Amish kitchen tables, much like their farm
  tables, are designed to seat as many people as
  possible.

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Contact Details

• Company Name Online Amish Furniture
• Contact Number 1 888-882-6474
• Address-Shelby Charter Township, Michigan 48315,
  USA
• Email ID sales_at_OnlineAmishFurniture.com
• Website http//www.onlineamishfurniture.com
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