The Drawer Test: How to Spot Quality Furniture Construction

People ask all the time, do solid wood drawers last longer? What's the big deal about solid wood drawers?

Every time you open a drawer, you're putting stress on it thousands of times over a lifetime. Cheap drawers are often stapled together using thin materials that eventually loosen, wear out, and fall apart.

See any staples in this? How about this wonderful mortise and tenon joinery here, where they lock together? This is a drawer as fine as you'll see anywhere in the world.

It's solid wood, Made in America. Look at that self-closing. It is incredible.

Solid maple wood with this incredible almond finish. That's how the Amish craftsmen build furniture. They build furniture that'll last a lifetime.

Exquisite dovetail joinery that actually locks and holds the wood together. It'll never come apart.

Solid wood bottoms that are finished and smooth. They don't want cheap particle board that has splinters and staples everywhere. They want furniture that'll glide smoothly year after year.

It's one of the details people don't notice, but it lasts a lifetime.

If you look at the drawers on Amish solid wood furniture, you'll see quality craftsmanship. You'll feel the solid wood. It makes a difference.

Something you and your family will enjoy every day. Solid wood furniture, Made in America. Solid wood drawers—they last a lifetime.