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To the reader,
Welcome to our 3rd issue of our newsletter, "THE PEGRAIL," we hope that you enjoy it as much as our previous issues.
BIG NEWS in this issue...our 50% OFF SALE STARTS TODAY.......Check Out our Sales Area in our website for a peak at some of the savings being offered here. Better yet, plan a trip to our showroom soon to see first-hand the full collection of furniture and accessories being offered at HALF PRICE for a very limited time. This will be our only sale offering of this magnitude before the upcoming holidays!
Please enjoy your read...we hope to see or hear from you soon!
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A Shake-up the Laundry Room?
A recent client's remodeling project....
A few months back a client from Maryland that had purchased quite a few furniture pieces from us asked if we could come up with a clever way to disguise the laundry machines in their home. The dilemma they faced was upgrading their current washer & dryer to more energy & resource efficient models, all while keeping the flavor of the project in the style that they loved...as Shaker as possible. The advent of the front-loading washer & dryers that are being offered these days made this request a breeze to fulfill, in the past we have had to revert to clumsy hinged counters and the like to enable access into the older top-loaders. With this project we were able to fix the counter, which was granite, and simply bi-fold the doors that were hinged on vertical partitions. We crafted this unit with 1-1/8" thick doors to enable them to hold up to the use a laundry room receives, and hinged them together using "SOSS" hinges in a black-chrome finish that were virtually invisible after being mortised into the doors edges. The finish that was selected for this project was our "Green over Red" painted museum finish. 
If you have a need for a project like this in your home or office just give us a call or drop us an email, we would love another challenge! You can view examples of other built-in type projects that we have crafted HERE. |
| Our New Farmhouse Table!
Hand-Planed & Planked with Breadboard Ends.... 
As long as we have been crafting tables we have been listening to client requests as to what type table and surface finish they were seeking...we seemed to be running into a Mama-Bear, Baby-Bear, Poppa-Bear type syndrome with some liking more tool marks & wood character and some liking less. In response we offered our table surfaces, which are always hand-planed, in either a "sanded-dining table top", a "sanded-farm table top", or a "heavy hand-planed farm table top". Three degrees of texture that we thought would please all tastes...we were wrong. Enter our newest table surface option, "The Farmhouse Top."
 This new style is more heavily textured than our "hand-planed farm table top" and more wood character such as knots and tooling marks are left in to create a table top that appears ancient. I recently had a client describe this new surface as being "Viking-Like"...we took that as a compliment! This style tabletop also features bread-board ends, planking, and more rounded & worn edges & corners...all part of the look. At the same time that this table surface appears aged & textured, it is finely finished and smooth to the touch. A superb 7 step finishing process is applied to all of our table surfaces to provide the ultimate in protection from heat, moisture, household chemicals & abrasion. Only a damp cloth is needed to keep it looking "old."
The table shown in these images is crafted out of quarter-sawn white oak with the top being stained our "cinnamon" color. The base is done in our "black over red" painted museum finish.
Until it is sold this table is available at a special price here with the 6 chairs shown. |
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Our Sale Announcement for Fall....
50% OFF SALE!
It Starts here for you in this Newsletter...Be sure to check the new "50% OFF SALE"section of our website before everyone else finds out! New pieces will be added in the coming days to the website...plan a trip soon to our showroom to see the full offering of Sale Priced Furniture & Accessories! Everything that is on display in our showroom will be priced 50% Off for a limited time!
Please note that this 50% OFF SALE pertains only to pieces that are on display and ready for sale...it does not apply towards special orders or pieces that we will need to craft.
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In closing, I thank you for the time that you have spent reading this issue of THE PEGRAIL, I hope that you have enjoyed it. If you can think of a friend or associate that might also enjoy this newsletter I would greatly appreciate it if you would forward them a copy using the forward email link below.
Sincerely,
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Tom Rossman
The Shaker Shoppe, Inc.
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