I have new futons after the fire, the frames are Amish made with an oil rub for finish, the futons are local made in San Francisco, and the futon covers are sewn there too. These futons I picked have micro springs, so I dont know where the microsprings, organic cotton and wool and organic cotton cloth and zippers were sourced from, but they were made local. That futon shop commisions the Amish made futon couch frames. The replacement mattresses I bought were also made in California. My wood stove is a Lopi brand, manufactured in Washington state. The shelf by the front door with toys I had commissioned and made about 40 years ago, that was not expensive. In general, most carpenters can knock together shelves for you if you pay them to do so. There is a cabinet making shop I think still in town. I bet they would make a dresser if you asked them to. A dresser is just a tall kitchen cabinet.
My Daughters tell me their upholstered sectional couches were manufactured in Oregon, they live in Oregon. That is what you get from teh local furniture store, you see the displays, put in your order and it gets made.
If you have a local framer or carpenter that needs work, there are plenty of DIY books at the library, well maybe not, but at used books stores anyways, with basic plans for DIY making of tables, chairs, bedsteads just using good plywood and regular dimensional 2x4's, so if you dont have the tools or want the learning curve, hire a guy by the hour to make you some. That is how I got my shelf made years ago, the bookshelves I used to have, tall ones, my brother made about 40 years ago out of the plywood that has oak veneer, one of my daughters has those now, they are still in service. This kind of DIY furniture can realy last. Much more than IKEA. The same guy that made me the low shelf made a toddler bed for my kids, just out of dimensional lumber, but I did have hime use oak for that. It takes a regular crib mattress, it is in my attic waiting for the next grandchild to borrow it, and the cradle made from black walnut for my youngest child is up there too, that was made by a parent at my older childrens school, so a more advanced DIY hobiest. I won a raffle for a doll cradle, and he made me an offer to have him keep the doll sized and upgrade me to a real sized as I was expecting. He kept the doll one for his childs doll.
So, even for the stuff that we cant get commercially made in the USA, there is no reason to not just have made. Get a 1970's DIY furniture book and hire a carpenter and its ok to just use Doug Fir 2x4 and 2x6s from the lumberyard, I love doug Fir look.
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Date: 2025-04-12 01:04 am (UTC)My Daughters tell me their upholstered sectional couches were manufactured in Oregon, they live in Oregon. That is what you get from teh local furniture store, you see the displays, put in your order and it gets made.
If you have a local framer or carpenter that needs work, there are plenty of DIY books at the library, well maybe not, but at used books stores anyways, with basic plans for DIY making of tables, chairs, bedsteads just using good plywood and regular dimensional 2x4's, so if you dont have the tools or want the learning curve, hire a guy by the hour to make you some. That is how I got my shelf made years ago, the bookshelves I used to have, tall ones, my brother made about 40 years ago out of the plywood that has oak veneer, one of my daughters has those now, they are still in service. This kind of DIY furniture can realy last. Much more than IKEA. The same guy that made me the low shelf made a toddler bed for my kids, just out of dimensional lumber, but I did have hime use oak for that. It takes a regular crib mattress, it is in my attic waiting for the next grandchild to borrow it, and the cradle made from black walnut for my youngest child is up there too, that was made by a parent at my older childrens school, so a more advanced DIY hobiest. I won a raffle for a doll cradle, and he made me an offer to have him keep the doll sized and upgrade me to a real sized as I was expecting. He kept the doll one for his childs doll.
So, even for the stuff that we cant get commercially made in the USA, there is no reason to not just have made. Get a 1970's DIY furniture book and hire a carpenter and its ok to just use Doug Fir 2x4 and 2x6s from the lumberyard, I love doug Fir look.
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