My homemade rocking chair and matching chairs are my favorite furniture.
When my boys were in high school, they had to take a wood-working shop.
Most of the boys made little tables or a blanket holder.
My boys made me a handmade rocking chair and two matching handmade side chairs. They got their girlfriends to make the cushions for all three items and to make a cushion for the hand made gliding ottoman. I never realized my boys had so much talent, and it didn’t surprise me when they opted to go into a furniture making business together. The three boys made such beautiful furniture that they had orders for special handmade furniture for the next three years. If I were paying for a houseful of furniture that these people paid for one item, I would have wanted it done within a month, and not two or three years. The people patiently waited for their handmade, custom designed chairs, tables, and anything imaginable. My boys keep telling me they have a very special anniversary present for my husband and I. I couldn’t imagine having anything from them that could match my handmade furniture that was in the living room. For our anniversary they made us a maple waterfall bed with matching side tables. My husband and I had bought our bed at a second hand store. It was new to us, and we had it for the last forty years. When they gave us the new bed, I cried for hours, but I couldn’t help it. I thought my living room oak chairs were my favorite things in the house, but my handmade oak bed set really has me second-guessing my favorite wood furniture.