Shaker furniture

Add cabin style to your home's decor with the cabin decor ideas in this article. Helpful photos illustrate a variety of cabin decorating themes, including Mod Lodge, Cool and Contemporary, East Coast Cowboy, a Woodsy Retreat, and many more!

PITTSFIELD -- Walnut arms curve smoothly in a chandalier. A wooden clasp glides apart, and a brown oak box opens to show a row of teabags. Shakers did drink tea. But here with a sewing table and golden-grained wall cabinet stands a computer desk.

Kennebec shaker - wow! - beautiful cabinets! If we did stained cabinets....this would be it.

Laundry in the Shaker Village, Canterbury, New Hamshire - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Cedar is one of the most durable woods around. Not only does it have a distinctive heavy grain giving each piece of furniture a unique look, but it is also a natural deterrent to moths and other insects. This makes it the perfect material for building furniture to house blankets and clothes. We’ve chosen the best and most attractive cedar storage chests around to help you find the right one for you.

Eleven international designers and studios have produced a range of simple furniture and homeware based on the American Shaker movement

As a furniture maker, visiting museums is important. But what is more important is visiting those same museums again and again. Every year you are a different person, and the same pieces of furnitu…

Adding a front porch bench to your home is a two-fold process. First, you get the perfect comfy place to sit outside and observe what’s happening around you. But porch benches also serve as decor pieces to improve your exterior’s curb appeal. You can get front porch benches in various designs and sizes, like these porch bench ideas.

By Tom Caspar When I first saw a drawing of this table 20 years ago in a book by Thomas Moser, I knew I had to make it (see Sources, below). It perfectly captures the essence of classic Shaker design.

Combining clean and graceful Shaker lines with a bit of eastern flair, Vermont furniture maker Jim Becker creates distinctive pieces by hand.