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Western Heritage - Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Western Heritage Furniture can be found in many wonderful home furnishing stores and homes throughout the United States and Canada.  While we have dipped our toes into the international market, we received a wonderful surprise the day that Elena de Vizri, owner of El Corcel in Panama gave us a call. 

Ms. De Vizri has three storefronts where she sells fine Western apparel, tack, and home furnishings.  And to help her fill her multiple locations, we put together an entire container of furniture to ship down to Panama.  She made her selections without having ever laid eyes upon the furniture, having only a recommendation and our web images.

It was a wonderful experience to work with Elena and to see everyone at WHF pull together and make this happen.  

 

 

Our warehouse space inside the factory was full to capacity!

 

On shipping day, an empty container arrived on the back of a truck, and a carefully orchestrated game of furniture Tetris began. 

 

 

 Neith, Richard, Tel, and Jim were hard at work making sure that everything was properly wrapped and padded for the trip across the ocean.

 

 

Every piece had to be lifted up almost 5 feet to find its place in the container.

 

 After several hours of carefully loading, everything fit in perfectly!  Our loaders did a great job of making sure that the pieces were secure and protected. 

Then we waited.  After several months of organizing, preparing and building we had to wait a bit longer to get El Corcel's reaction to the furniture. 

 Finally, after weeks of freight time and customs, Elena emailed to say how delighted she was with all of the furniture, and surprised me with this.....

  Thanks to Elena of El Corcel from all of us at Western Heritage Furniture! 

 

Western Heritage - Friday, December 16, 2011

 

It sure is getting chilly up here on Cleopatra Hill!  The icy winds and snowfall have been delivering quite the punch these last couple of weeks.  

 

While I have to admit that it looks beautiful, keeping warm in this old building is a bit of a challenge.  One thing that we have done to try and battle the chill, is the addition of all new exterior doors on our factory.   Besides providing better insulation, they look much better than the old gymnasium doors.  

 Western Heritage Furniture makes a wide variety of doors using alder and Ghostwood.

 

 

 

Any of our parquetry patterns can be converted into our doors.  Above is the Diamondback and Archer patterns.

Simple rustic elegance.  Roxy can't resist sneaking a peak.

Open the doors up to see the copper and leather designs on the interior.  While not the best for dealing with the elements, adding embellishment on the interior of a door would certainly dress up a foyer.

There is no reason to have to use plain old doors!  Contact us at sales@whf-inc.com to find out about our custom doors, cabinet facings, and built-ins.  Or just come on up to Jerome and take a stroll around town, where you will see our doors in action!

 

 

Western Heritage - Wednesday, November 16, 2011

 

Last week, we had the privilege of creating a Presidential Desk for our friends at Valerie's Furniture and Accents in Cave Creek, AZ.   This is a pretty spectacular desk, one that we don't get to make every day.   Everyone who worked on this piece agreed that it was the most beautiful desk that we have ever produced, so I had to take some pictures and share with everyone.  Enjoy.

  

 The Presidential Desk is an executive style desk made with various species of reclaimed wood, including walnut, redwood, curly cherry, and Western Heritage's signature Ghostwood. 

 

 

 Along with using reclaimed lumber to build our furniture, WHF also reclaims architectural details, such as this molding.   This particular molding was pulled from a building here in Jerome, AZ.  

 

 

 Part of what made this desk so breathtaking were the panels on the top.  These panels were hand picked by Adam, our sawyer, for their ability to shine in an application like this. 

 

 

A closer view at the wonderful heartwood panels. 

 

 A bit of Ghosttown Copper was added in to the corner leg insets, and the top corner detail.  This corner detail is bordered in the curly cherry to really make it stand out.

 

 

Buffalo Nickel tacks were added over the leather trimmed edge for a fun Western detail.

 

 

Western Heritage makes file drawers that are easily converted from letter to legal per the customer's preference.   The central pencil drawer can also me made as a keyboard slideout for PC users.

 

 Hats off to the team at Valerie's Furniture and Accents (valeriesfurniture.com) and to our artisans who make each piece of Western Heritage Furniture special and one of a kind!

 

 

Western Heritage - Thursday, July 21, 2011


It used to be that we would come home from a long day at work, kick off our boots, grab a tasty beverage and settle in to the sofa to watch a little TV to unwind from the stresses of the day.  The living room is aptly named, as that is where we did most of our living.

But, in today's fast-paced, wireless, on-demand society, people are spending more and more time in front of a computer.  So why not make your office as comfortable and pleasant as your living room?  Might as well, desk potato.

Take a look at WHF's new Carson Desk.  Available standard in 60"x30" or in 72"x32", or custom sized to whatever dimension your little heart desires.

The majority of this piece is made from our Milled Ghostwood.  The rough exterior edges of our Ghostwood are planed back to reveal the interior wood.  The finishing result is a cleaner, sleeker, lighter wood tone, perfect for Mountain Modern or Contemporary Southwest designs.
 


The front of the desk is WHF's original Archer pattern in Ghostwood, Milled Ghostwood, and Ghosttown Copper.  Super Ghosty!  Any of WHF's patterned table tops can be put on the front of this piece, and our coppers and leathers are all available as accents to customize the look to your hearts content.



The top of this desk has a central writing panel of our Amber leather and a decorative panel of Ghosttown Copper to set off the top.   The side panels are crafted of the Ghostwood raised center, beveling back to the Milled Ghostwood below.



A single file drawer and two storage drawers on one side, and a tower compartment on the other are on the back of the desk.  The central pencil drawer can convert to a computer keyboard slideout if you need.  Of course WHF can accommodate whatever office configuration that you require.

Contact sales@whf-inc.com for more information regarding customization, construction, and where to buy one for yourself.

Sidenote:  Since this is very ghosty post, I thought it would be fun to mention that this pic is taken at Minehouse Collection on Main Street Jerome.  A few days earlier, they had their first ghost sighting just across from where this desk sits on the mezzanine.   He was relaxing in a chair.  I guess he approves of the new furnishings and was enjoying the space!
 

Western Heritage - Thursday, May 12, 2011
Western Heritage Furniture is going to be featured on AAA Presents Highroads with Dan Davis, on Saturday May 14th.   In Phoenix, the show will air on KPNX Channel 12 at 6:30 pm, and in Tucson on KVOA Channel 4 at 4pm.   Check the website for more details, http://www.aaaaz.com/highroads/index.htm

Also, take a look at clips from Robin Sewell's Arizona Highways Television.  Ms. Sewell has featured Western Heritage Furniture ("Furniture with a Green Heart") as well as Verde BioFuel ("Fry Grease to Fuel" and "Verde Biofuel").  All the clips can be found through this link, http://www.azhighwaystv.com/show-archives/green-eco-friendly/

Happy Watching! 






 

Western Heritage - Thursday, April 14, 2011

Ok Ladies…..

At one time or another, we have all found ourselves standing on our tippy-toes in front of the bathroom mirror trying to see how these shoes look with this dress?/ panty hose or no panty hose?/ does my posterior look amazing in these jeans?/ etc.

God Bless the person who invented the Cheval Mirror!

We made this free-standing mirror custom for a customer to avoid such bathroom balancing acts.  It is made out of our signature Ghostwood with Ghost Town Copper accents. 

And much like the previously mentioned posterior, we think it looks pretty good!

-K

 

Western Heritage - Thursday, May 06, 2010

 

This is the second of four videos of the "Evolution of a Pool Table". In the video you begin to get a good sense of what the final table is going to look like. It shows what the old hand hewn oak looks like with the fine sanding and lacquer finish applied. Our unique Cayonland Copper corner details are installed on the table legs. The finely carved leather rails and leg panels created by renowned tooler Phillip Smith. Noah Pfeffer is the well known jeweler responsible for the hand cut turquoise sites set in silver bezels. He is also the craftsman who made the refined silver Western Heritage logo set into the end rail. I incorporated seven deferent species of wood throughout the the pool table. I used 200+ year old oak for the super structure, walnut on the top rails, poplar for the sub rails, reclaimed rosewood for the rail edge caps, 100+ year old pine barn siding for the rail aprons and 80+ year old douglas fir for the raised panels in the tables skirt. I believe the marriage of all these different woods along with the tooled leather, jewelery quality sites and professional grade felt form a perfect union.