Our Furniture, Smalls and Windsors, are made by reproducing antique American Country pieces made by hand prior to 1850. 1850 is generally accepted as the beginning of the American Industrial Revolution and the beginning of factory manufactured furniture.

        With the advent of factory produced furniture, much of the pride taken in making furniture was lost along with much of the charm of the EARLY pieces.

        Fireside Reproductions has, for the past thirty years, taken pride in what we make. We feel that we make some of the most accurately reproduced American Country Furniture available today.

        Along with being very authentic and functional, we try to bring to each piece of our Furniture, Smalls and Windsors as well, the warmth and charm of the originals; of course, nothing will replace an original piece and all its qualities, but we think we come close.

        In order to build our various pieces as authentically as possible, we, at Fireside Reproductions, use the same materials as used by the furniture makers 200+/- years ago.

        We use 150 - 200+ year-old white pine taken from old buildings in New England down through, of course, Pennsylvania. These boards were grainery boards, attic floor boards, partition walls and quality boards of other uses (not barn siding).

        The nails we use are also salvaged from the old structures; the nice old square nails that add to the charm and authenticity of our FURNITURE and our SMALLS as well.

        Our finishes (surfaces) are: natural old pine (our standard finish), smooth aged and worn milk paint, Grungy? worn and aged milk paint, one color over another color paint with proper wear, a natural scrubbed surface (for table tops etc.), and finally a scrubbed milk paint surface; a scrubbed old red over an old mustard first coat. ALL OF OUR PIECES ARE AVAILABLE WITHOUT WEAR. *

        Thank you for your time. Now, we would like to invite you to enjoy viewing our GALLERY, which proudly displays our present line of reproduction, Antique American Country Furniture. *

Pennsylvania Bench Table	Shaker Table	Larger Chair Tables
New England Shoe Foot Chair/Hutch Table	Round Chair Table with Scrubbed Top	New England Pine Pewter Cupboard
Entertainment Center	Pantry Cupboard	Country Chippendale Corner Cupboard
Hanging Flat Wall Cupboard	Pennsylvania Hanging Corner Cupboard	Primitive Hanging Corner Cupboard
Bucket Bench	Pennsylvania Dutch Dower Chest	Child's Paint Decorated Blanket Chest
Country Bench	Very Rare New England Shoe Foot Candle Stand / Child's High Chair Hutch	Huntboards

        Authenticity also calls for making pieces in the same manner as the originals. Where called for by the original piece, we hand cut our Dovetails for drawers, cases, i.e. Dower chest cases and in other applications again where called for. We use real mortise and tenon joints, for instance, in making a door frame. I say a real mortise and tenon joint because these are ways "to pull off" a fake M & T joint thereby saving time; we don't use the short cuts.

        Where nailed construction is required, we use original old square nails if the nail will be seen. If the nail will not show, for example, when applying the backboards on a cupboard, we use rusted reproduction square nails that have to be properly aged. We do this, of course, to conserve the original square nails.

         I think the above gives you a good idea as to the pride we take in making each of our pieces one at a time; you cannot use a mass production/assembly line method(s) to make the well-built, authentic and quality pieces we make. Of course, the "by hand work" we do is impossible to accomplish on a mass basis.

        We, at Fireside Reproductions, view each piece we make as a challenge; we take great pride in meeting that challenge with each and every piece we make.

        * - OUR FURNITURE IS SHOWN WITH WEAR AND AGED MILK PAINT; ALL OF OUR PIECES ARE AVAILABLE WITHOUT WEAR AND AGING WITH A PRICE CONSIDERATION, OF COURSE.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ.

I AM NOT VERY FAMILIAR WITH HI-TECH, BUT I HAVE BEEN TOLD BY THOSE WHO KNOW THAT SHADES AND INTENSITY OF COLOR CAN VARY FROM COMPUTER TO COMPUTER DUE TO THE FACT THAT SOME COMPUTERS ARE NOT CALIBRATED AS TO COLOR ON A REGULAR BASIS; EVERY MONTH OR SO, I'M TOLD.

WHEN MY IMAGES WERE PUT ON MY WEBSITE THEY WERE OF TRUE COLOR AND SHADE OF COLOR FOR EACH IMAGE.