Welcome to Dutchcrafters' Amish Furniture Blog!

Welcome to our new DutchCrafters blog, a place where you'll find updated and focused articles specifically designed to inform and educate about our heirloom quality, solid wood, Amish furniture that is made in the USA.

At DutchCrafters, we've spent years forming close and personal relationships with Amish furniture shops throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. Our Amish friends are amongst the best furniture craftsmen around. They strive to build furniture that stands above the rest - heirlooms that can be passed along from generation to generation.

Since 2003 we've done our very best to match the quality of the Amish furniture with a superb customer experience. Our Amish furniture specialists are knowledgeable and experienced. They have sat in the chairs, run their hands across the beds, looked under the tables and smelled the raw wood firsthand. Courteous and professional, they have helped thousands of customers navigate options, select styles, and choose stains.

Speaking of stain selection, we go the extra mile by providing our customers with real wood stain samples - free of charge - whenever a purchase of Amish furniture is made.

Our delivery folks are generally blanket wrapping specialists that take pride in the many positive customer comments that have been received about them over the years. It is not unusual for us to hear that one of our customers was so pleased with their delivery service that they invited us in for a cup of tea or piece of homemade pie. (We don't expect it, but we sure do appreciate it!)

DutchCrafters is part of the family of JMX Stores, owned and operated by JMX International. JMX also owns a variety of other stores such as OceanFare, QuiltsByLinse, JMX Bamboo, MillerStore and GardenTones.

At DutchCrafters, we take pride in our A+ Rating by the Better Business Bureau. When problems do arise, we go the extra mile to make sure that they are resolved. This has earned us many repeat customers over the years and loyal fans who keep coming back for more furniture. We're a member of the Sarasota Chamber of Commerce and have all the necessary compliances in place to make sure that our customers can rest assured that they are in safe and trusted hands.

Please browse our huge selection of Amish furniture at DutchCrafters. If you have any questions at all or just want to talk to a live person, give us a call at 866-272-6773, 9 a.m. - 8 p.m. EST, 7 days a week. Thanks for giving us a look!

Jim Miller 

Founder of DutchCrafters 

JMX International Rating with BBB Upgraded to A+

JMX International's rating with the Better Business Bureau has been upgrade from "A" to "A+", reflecting the company's history with a very low number of complaints.

The rating of A+ is the highest rating a company can achieve. JMX International prides itself on strong customer service, matching the quality of the 10,000 products that it sells.

The JMX Family of Stores includes DutchCrafters.com, the largest selection of Amish furniture anywhere on the Internet. Other e-stores include JmxBamboo.com, GardenTones.com, OceanFare.com and more.

JMX International was recently named to the Gulf Coast Business Review's Gulf Coast 500. The company is located in Sarasota, FL and has been in business since 2003.

American Made Outdoor Lighthouses at OceanFare.com

Our handcrafted lighthouses offer the perfect nautical accent to your lawn, patio or dock! We offer over two dozen different styles of wooden lighthouses, which are handcrafted of exterior wood by the Amish and come in a variety of sizes from 2-20 feet. They also come in a wide range of styles and sizes. All lighthouses come with a variety of options in lights, including a solar light, flashing light, or rotating beacon. All lighthouses come fully assembled and ready to set up. The top of the lighthouse is generally shipped inside of the base and is very easy to set up.

OceanFare Half Hulls

OceanFare half hulls are crafted of beautiful mahogany on frame wood.

They are handcrafted by a highly specialized artisans guild in the Dominican Republic according to the strictest of standards. These artisans are highly trained experts, using computer aided design to obtain 100% accuracy in replication. The workmanship is unbelievable! Five coats of lacquer give the work a radiant polish.

History of Half Hulls

The art of making half hull models is as old as shipbuilding itself. Half hulls were traditionally crafted by ship builders to give a three-dimensional shape to their hull designs and aid as a model in the construction of the real boat.

Over time, sailors, boat enthusiasts, and model collectors around the world began to value half hulls for their own artistic and intrinsic value. Today half hulls adorn the walls of offices, living rooms, libraries, restaurants, and pubs world-wide.

Each OceanFare half hull comes attractively framed on solid frame wood, perfectly showcasing the hull itself. A gold colored plate handsomely displays the name and year of the model.