Making your house into a home takes more than simple painting and decorating. Furnishing your home both inside and outside can be the difference in how people see it. So how do you find a piece that can really define your living space?

Amish furniture first gained attention in the 1920s, when early American folk art was “discovered.” The unique nature of Amish work grew in popularity, as these beautiful pieces were highly valued by dealers and historians. 100% of Amish furniture and buildings are hand-crafted, distinguishing the quality of an Amish built garage as opposed to one found in a mainstream market.

Individual Amish sellers can be found across the nation, providing everything from furniture to custom-built sheds, barns, and custom pergolas. While sheds and barns can be useful for those needing further storage or work space, custom pergolas can be suitable for outdoor entertaining spaces that will match the flow of your home. A pergola is an outdoor structure consisting of columns that support a roofing grid of beams and rafters. This roofing grid may be left open or covered so as to create an area sheltered from the elements. Pergolas may be freestanding or attached to a house and are typically constructed using beautiful woods like oak, cherry, hickory, walnut or maple.

Why should you consider ordering a pergola?

Need to create more of a definite space than what your deck or patio provides? Custom pergolas can add that definition to your yard by creating an entertainment area you may not have had before. Enjoy gardening and natural elements? Wooden beams throughout and the possibility of climbing flowers and plants growing to the roof of your pergola could add to your landscape. Summer heat too much to handle? Custom pergolas can provide shade with both closed and open roof structures. Lacking privacy and looking for a solution? A pergola can keep you from being out in the open (and you could even add your own flare with curtains, plants, etc.).

Not only do custom pergolas add to your living space but also to your home value. In the same fashion as constructing a new deck or outdoor living space, ordering Amish adds unique features to your home that may not be found in another. And, on top of that, you generally save money purchasing Amish buildings and products as opposed to purchasing mainstream. You have nothing to lose and everything about a beautiful, custom entertaining space to gain!

What could ordering Amish furniture or custom pergolas do for your living space?