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The Amana Furniture Difference
| Most Other Furniture Companies | Your choices are limited to the furniture on their showroom floor—or in their catalog. Most other furniture companies do not have the ability to create commissioned furniture. |
| Amana Furniture | Building furniture to fit your life is Amana Furniture’s specialty. In fact, 20 percent of the company’s furniture is built as commissioned pieces for a specific customer. A commissioned piece can be based on an Amana design, with the design modified to accommodate the customer’s request. For instance, they may want the piece to have different legs or to be taller or shorter. A commissioned piece might also be based on a customer’s drawing. As an added bonus, Amana Furniture has 150 years of furniture patterns housed on two floors. So if you bought an Amana Furniture dining room set 20 years ago and have decided to add chairs, Amana Furniture can do it. |
| Most Other Furniture Companies | The surface of their furniture has a high-gloss, plastic, unnatural appearance. |
Amana Furniture |
The company’s special varnish brings out the natural beauty of the wood. The luster and patina of each piece becomes richer and more beautiful over time. The appearance actually improves with each passing year. |
| Most Other Furniture Companies | Their idea of solid wood furniture usually includes particleboard and veneer. Hot glue, staples and assembly lines are common; craftsmanship is not. Other companies build disposable furniture. |
| Amana Furniture | You may be able to find a few furniture manufacturers that use one or two of the quality construction techniques used by Amana Furniture, such as dovetails or double mortise and tenon, which provide the strongest possible joints. But you are not likely to find another furniture manufacturer that uses a full combination of superior construction techniques day in and day out. |