A Kit for All Reasons
Furniture kits, sold mostly through mail order, come in many ranges of style and prices. Here is a sampling.
* American Bungalow magazine’s mail-order Craftsman collection includes two kits: the Greene and Greene facsimile fern table of Honduras mahogany and a handcrafted redwood miniature bungalow birdhouse. P.O. Box 756, Sierra Madre, Calif. 91205-756; (800) 350-3363.
* Bartley Collection Ltd. specializes in 18th- and 19th-Century reproductions. Kits range in price from $29 to $3,400 for more than 300 designs, including beds, chests, tables, highboys, dining tables and chairs. Free catalogue. 29060 Airpark Drive, Easton, Md. 21601; (800) 227-8539.
* Cohasset Colonials offers reproductions of early American museum pieces in pine, cherry and maple. Kits range from $49 to $1,300. Catalogue, $3. 10 Churchill Road, Hingham, Mass., 02043-1589; (800) 288-2389.
* Emperor Clock Co. makes kits for grandfather clocks and fine furniture in Appalachian oak, Pennsylvania cherry and black walnut. Clock movements are brass. Prices range from $200 for a mantel clock kit to $1,895 for a Newbury clock with fluted columns. Free catalogue. Emperor Industrial Park, Fairhope, Ala. 36532; (800) 642-0011.
* Wood Classics makes classic mission-style furniture in mahogany, teak, cherry and quarter-sawn oak. Free catalogue. P.O. Box 3AB2, Osprey Lane, Gardiner, N.Y. 12515; (914) 255-5599.
* Shaker Shops West manufactures a full-range of kits in domestic rock maple, cherry, butternut and quarter-sawn oak. Prices range from a Shaker stand for $77 to a cherrywood trestle table for $973. Catalogue, $1.50. P.O. Box 487, Inverness, Calif. 94937; (415) 669-7256.
* Shaker Workshops has Shaker reproductions in maple, cherry and pine, including tables, chairs, beds, lamps, mirrors and clocks. Kits range from $40 to $500. Catalogue, $1. P.O. Box 1028, Concord, Mass. 01742; (617) 646-8985.
* Yield House furniture kits range from a $49 luggage rack kit to a $749 armoire. Free catalogue. P.O. Box 2525, Conway, N.H. 03818; (800) 258-4720.
* Workshop Showcase kits for Shaker and mission-style hardwood furniture range from a $75 stool to a $1,100 Shaker picket bed. Catalogue, $2. P.O. Box 500107, Austin, Tex. 78750; (512) 331-5470.
* Coppa Woodworking makes Adirondack outdoor chairs and love seats with wide arms and slatted fan backs. Unfinished sugar pine kits range from a $24 footrest to a $99 love seat. Free brochure. 1231 Paraiso, San Pedro, Calif. 90731; (310) 548-5332.