Outdoor Decor - Handcrafted & American-Made

The outdoor decor you select personalizes your outside environment. It tells the world a little something about your interests, your tastes, and your relationship to the rest of the world. And choosing outdoor decor that not only “speaks” to you and your neighbors, but also lasts season after season can make a difference between buying new things every year or having the same, beautifully crafted items to enjoy for many years to come.

From whirligigs to windchimes, outdoor décor runs the gamut from fun to functional. High-quality items made to endure for many seasons can sometimes be hard to find. Products that come handcrafted, hand-painted, and created with an eye toward beauty as well as long-lasting usefulness aren’t usually found at the corner big-box store. You may need to look online. And you may need to consider where the items come from.

Many outdoor décor products are produced overseas. There, they are made as cheaply as possible and as quickly as possible to offset the cost of shipping them around the world to the U.S. But there are still places here in America where one can find American-made, high-quality outdoor décor products: from the Amish.

The Plain People (the Amish) place quality first and create outdoor decor items just as well as they build, construct, and produce everything else they make. Everything comes carefully thought out and designed, crafted by hand, and made to last.

Just a few of the American-made outdoor decor products handcrafted by the Amish include:

- Lighthouses and other nautically themed items
- Wagons and wheelbarrows
- Planters
- Wishing wells
- Windmills
- Birdhouses and feeders
- Windchimes
- Mailboxes
- Waterwheels
- Whirligigs and other novelty products

To give you an example of the quality Amish-made outdoor décor items possess, consider the Lighthouses they create. Built to lend an imitable sense of enchantment to a water garden, pond, or to stand alone as a focal point of a landscape, these exquisitely rendered Lighthouses come with a host of unique characteristics found only from the Amish artisans who make them.

Painstakingly handcrafted from T1-11 pine, identical to the durable material used to build outdoor sheds, they come offered in many sizes – from 18 inches to 5 feet (and taller, if requested by the customer). You can get them electrically or solar powered (powerful enough to illuminate an entire typical walkway) and with or without rotating beacons or blinking lights for a unique and eye-catching touch of interest. Additionally, this outdoor décor item can be had in standard colors or you can get them custom hand-painted.

So the next time you think “outdoor decor,” think, “Amish, American-made, handcrafted outdoor decor.” You’ll not only get the best looking outdoor decor, but you’ll also have it to enjoy for years longer than you ever expected!

Beautiful Lawn Furniture, Made to Last

Well-built, attractive, comfortable lawn furniture makes the difference between enjoying the outdoor season and avoiding it. Whether entertaining friends, spending time with family, or taking time for quiet moments alone, good outdoor lawn furniture takes precedence.

People spend hundreds – sometimes thousands – of dollars each year on lawn furniture, many times only to find themselves purchasing the same items again after only a year or two of normal use. Sometimes lawn furniture items are of such poor quality that they see no use at all – an uncomfortable seat goes unused, a broken armrest on a lounger puts that item out of use, or nails/rivets/screws come loose or are lost making a swing unusable or too uncomfortable to bother sitting in.

There are alternatives to cheaply made, uncomfortable lawn furniture, however, but consumers may need to search a little to find them. One option lies in Amish-made lawn furniture. Now here is lawn furniture that ranks in a class by itself.

Like so many Amish-made products, the lawn furniture made by these craftsmen is made with the utmost sense of quality. You won’t find uncomfortable seats made by the Amish. Instead, you’ll find body-contouring chairs, swings, loungers, and other outdoor seating built to fit the human shape – much of it optionally available in styles suitable for tall people.

As for materials used in Amish-made lawn furniture, you’ll find nothing short of full-grained solid wood or maintenance-free, high-grade polyvinyl. No fiberboard or cheap plastic is ever used in the creation of lawn furniture handcrafted from the Amish.

As for connectors like screws, rivets, and nails, much of the lawn furniture made by the Amish utilizes inset (countersunk) screws. This means that not only are screws used – instead of nails – but that the screws are inset into the wood so that they don’t snag on clothing (or skin!), plus make the piece look better overall and don’t work themselves out of the wood nearly as easily.

Amish lawn furniture is made to last. You won’t be replacing this type of lawn furniture anytime soon – maybe not until your grandchildren are grown! So the next time you consider buying furniture to use outdoors, think about investing in a lifetime (and longer) of quality, beautifully handcrafted lawn furniture – made only by the Amish.