A tiny stone playhouse that’s known as the littlest house in Shepherdstown still inspires children’s imaginations more than 75 years after it was built as a laboratory where student teachers could watch youngsters play.
The Little House on Princess Street was built over the summers of 1928 and 1929, under the supervision of Florence Shaw and [...]
Firefighters were called to the factory in Bilsen Road, in the northern suburb of Geebung, just after 9am to find the premises engulfed by flames.
It took crews 45 minutes to get the blaze under control.
A spokesman from the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service said some factory employees had been in the building when the fire [...]
Catherine Martinez knew she had to do something to help with Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. More precise instructions came to her in a dream, she said.
She dreamed of furniture being put in a moving van and headed to New Orleans.
Later, making phone call after phone call, she confirmed what her dream had already told her: [...]
The local Habitat For Humanity chapter opened a ReStore in the summer and officially opened Friday at 32 White Oak Drive.
Habitat For Humanity—an international, faith-based organization that lists former U.S. President Jimmy Carter among its volunteers—is a group that awards homes to needy families, providing they meet certain criteria for an interest-free mortgage and are [...]
Would you be more interested in buying a jeweler’s safe, parlor safe, bedroom safe or brothel safe? In the 19th century, three of the names were used for the same piece of furniture.
It was a small, boxlike safe that was secured to an attractive wooden stand usually in the Renaissance Revival style. The safe was [...]
The American Home Furnishings Alliance, based in High Point, N.C., offers these tips for furnishing your home with safety in mind:
Furniture tipover. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, an estimated 8,000-10,000 people are injured by falling furniture each year. A majority of the victims are children.
The alliance has a tipover standard for chests, armoires [...]
Earlier this month, Ashley Furniture suddenly shut down — leaving its workers without jobs and customers without merchandise.
A liquidation sale there Friday pitted hundreds of customers against each other — the chaos so bad that police officers had to be called in to control the crowds.
KITV’s Catherine Cruz was at the furniture store and was [...]
Internet shopping knows no boundaries, not even for products made behind bars. Maryland Correctional Enterprises, the manufacturing division of the state Division of Correction, has put its 182-page catalog online. Now anyone can see, if not buy, hundreds of items the agency offers for sale to government agencies and Maryland nonprofit organizations. The catalog is [...]
A bicoastal man who grew up in Los Angeles and New York City has opened a modern furniture store in an historic building in downtown Rogers.
Dan Stiel opened Abetica on Friday in 2,500 square feet in the Union Block building at 124 W. Walnut St. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic [...]
As from tomorrow up to Sunday JDS Furniture shall be open all day throughout the whole week.
Come and view the latest collection of locally made furniture made out of the finest wood with the latest technology.
For the past year JDS Furniture has undertaken major restructuring to their new factory in order to be able to [...]