My wife and I do not have a headboard, a foot board, or even a bed frame, for that matter. Our mattress sits on the floor (I'm sure she'll appreciate me telling the world this). Most of the furniture in our home is antique, but we can't seem to find a dresser that really fits our needs, the Mrs. likes to collect clothes it seems.
Much like the shoemaker's children not having any shoes, I can't seem to get to building the headboard I promised 12 years ago, nor the dresser to match and fit all of my wife's clothes. Frustrated, she has decided that we should finally just do what everybody else does and visit furniture stores, but she truly hates shopping for furniture with me. I pick away at the quality of most furniture, and she doesn't understand why we can't just buy something like every one else.
My blog post on my company's blog explains the advantages to well-crafted custom furniture, and C.H.I.P.s friend John Strauss's explains the sustainability of well-crafted custom furniture.
Now hopefully, this explanation buys me a few more years to build her furniture.
This post by Israel Retana. Israel is the founder of C.H.I.P.s and 2nd generation craftsman at Retana Cabinet Works , where they've been specializing in custom cabinetry and antique furniture restoration for nearly 30 years. He can be followed on twitter (iretana), friended on FaceBook , connected with on Linkedin, or contacted at israel@retanacabinetworks.com
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1 comments:
Good luck with that Israel! Give me credit if it works but don't blame me if it doesn't.:) Custom furniture is also about relationship - between the maker and the recipient. There is no relationship formed in buying store bought furniture other than between the purchaser and their wallet! Relationships give meaning to our life.
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