Customize Your Blanket Chest

•Quality Blanket Chests
When we think of quality blanket chests, we usually think of the wonderful wooden chests that our grandmothers possesed. They filled their hope chests with heirlooms and family memorabilia which could be shared and passed down for generations. The styles and sizes of blanket chests are more diverse than other types of furniture. The reason for this is because these wooden chests have been created by not only by wood artisans who create them for a living, but also by the relatives of young...

•Blanket Chests With Dovetail Joinery
Dovetail joinery was a favored construction technique among Colonial wood workers. The beautiful finished look and strength that this joinery gives to blanket chests makes dovetailing as popular today as it was centuries ago. Colonial craftsmen, especially those who lived in Pennsylvania, preferred to use a joinery style known as dovetailing when creating their blanket chests. There were very logical reason for them to use this joinery type. Dovetailing gives furniture pieces a neat,...

•Fine Wood Hope Chests
Hope chests are the type of furniture that is handed down in families from child to child or given on special occasions. This makes it very important to have your hope chest made with long lasting, beautiful wood. When people look at heirloom hope chest furniture, they look at the wonderful styling and the care that it took to create these fine furniture pieces. They also look at the type of wood that was used for the construction of these blanket chests. The better the quality of wood...

•Dovetailed Blanket Chests are Keepsakes
All blanket chests which have been handed down for generations by families have something in common. They all start with great joinery styles. Dovetail joinery has proven to be not only extremely durable, but is a joinery style that shows to great advantage as a design element. Dovetail joinery is a long time favorite type of joinery among wood artisans when constructing furniture, especially blanket chests. This joinery style has proven, over the centuries, its ability to withstand use...

•Inlay Design On Blanket Chests
Master wood craftsmen, usually known as cabinet makers, during the Early America Era, created blanket chests with very intricate designs. Beautifully crafted inlay design patterns on blanket chests was one of the sophisticated style choices. During the 1600's and 1700's Pennsylvania had a high influx of European people looking to establish their own communities with all of the much desired freedom and rights that were denied to them in their own countries. William Penn, who owned the...

•Hope Chest Heirlooms
Hope chests started out as one of the initial furniture pieces owned in most newly wedded couples households in Early America. These heirloom hope chests are as treasured as the family keepsakes which are stored inside. Hope chests made in America were created from European styles in the 1600's and 1700's by wood workers formally known as cabinet makers. Some of the popular copied designs were taken from the Baroque Style, the Queen Anne Style and the Louis XIV Style. As time went by,...

•Hex Signs on Hope Chests
One of the more interesting aspects of the Pennsylvania Dutch culture was to paint hex designs on buildings,especially above doorways and on barns, and on hope chests. These beautifully rendered hex designs represented a positive magical charm. People of every time period have been superstitious about witches, mainly evil witches that would do them harm. They would take any and every precautionary step necessary to repel witch spells from entering their homes. Some German immigrants that...

•Hope Chests Tradition Is Back
Hope Chests have made a come back as favorite traditional furniture. There is a little twist as Americans use these beautifully made blanket storage chests to serve more functions now in the home than they did years ago. Americans are well known to be innovative thinkers and having the ability to make the most out of every resource available. Hope chests are no exception. Beautifully handcrafted wood chests are used not only to store our grandmother's favorite quilt and other family...