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Win a $25 gift certificate for henhouse!!

Exciting news! We’re working on an update for our website and we need your help!
A $25 gift certificate could be yours

if you hurry!

Here are the details: E-mail us a pretty picture of your henhouse piece and tell us about your experience. The first ten senders will receive a $25 gift certificate to use at the shop and their photos and comments will be featured on our upcoming website landing page.

Why are you still here reading?! Fire up your camera and e-mail us now at info@henhouse.ca

Good luck!!

**Update! We’ll be notifying the winners by e-mail tomorrow!




Just in time for the weekend!

We wanted to let you know about some great deals going on at the shop right now:

Henhouse for the Holidays

We’re taking10% off all custom or standard furniture orders placed before Septermber 30th! Place your order before the end of this month and have it in time for the holidays!

Living Room Discounted!



Our gorgeous living room set is on sale as well. All pieces are vintage and have been re-upholstered in Thom Filicia for Kravet fabric. The seat cushions are down wrapped for extra comfort!
Sofa: $2995.00 down from $3450.00
15% off of the armchair, wingback chair and down insert pillows

Discounted wood furniture!


Dresser: from our South Shore collection, pine with five drawers, slightly distressed. Was $1890.00 now $1590.00
Pedestal Table: Beautiful pine with a walnut stain, 45″ diameter with a 15″ leaf insert. was $1820.00 now $900.00!

We hope you’ll visit us this weekend and take advantage of our great sale items!

Design History Lesson: Shaker Furniture

Hi everyone,

Today I’m shaking things up… ha ha… with a brief lesson in Shaker style furniture. I found this quote that really sums up the Shaker philosophy:

“Don’t make something unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it is both necessary and useful, don’t hesitate to make it beautiful.”

Shakers are a religious sect stemming from Quakers that came to America from Manchester England in 1774. They’re known for their strong beliefs in equality, life-long celibacy, and their lively worship services which earned them the name Shaking Quakers. They’re also well known for their furniture.


Shaker Tilting Chair

For the Shakers, form always follows function. Simplicity and functionality are the key principles behind their designs. The chair pictured above is long and lean with strong vertical lines, but the slight curves in the back slats soften it up a bit.

This particular chair was designed with a ball-and socket mechanism attached to the back legs so that a person could lean back without damaging the chair or the floor or rug beneath it.

I found another Shaker quote which I think is particularly inspiring:

“Do your work as though you had a thousand years to live and as if you were to die tomorrow”.

What do you think of the Shaking Quakers? Do you like their simple linear style? Do you have a Shaker-inspired piece of furniture that you love? Share with us!

Alyssa

A Cupboard for Toni

Last week I had the opportunity to help deliver one of our pieces to a customer’s home. It was really fun to get to see the piece in the space that it was made for and meet the people (and in this case the cats as well!) who will live with it.


Sappho designed this pine cupboard with hand carved panels for Toni who is a lover of nature, gardening and Nova Scotian folk art. After applying two layers of green paint, Sappho hand-painted a bird on each door, and some fiddle heads on the sides of the piece. She chose a nuthatch and a warbler- two birds that are native to Nova Scotia.

Like all of our custom pieces, this was created with the customer in mind and really speaks of her personality. The hand-painted imagery tells a story about where this piece is from and who it belongs to. It also adds another level of artistry to the piece. Beautiful! I can’t help but think how something like this could become a treasured family heirloom.



Here’s the finished cupboard in Toni’s space. Just to the right of the frame there is a wall of windows that give way to a view of Toni’s stunning back garden. This piece is right at home!

Thanks Toni! We hope you enjoy this piece for many years to come!