Wooden Rocking Chairs – Brining Back Good Memories
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The classic scene from a Norman Rockwell painting, or a classic black and white movie that includes scenes of little old ladies or men sitting in wooden rocking chairs will conjure up past memories of grandparents sitting on their porches and watching for the mailman to come down the loamy sand road to their farm each day. Remember watching your grandparents on the same porch, enjoying the day’s first cup of coffee, and chatting with their beagle Rufus about the condition of their garden while keeping the slow pace up with their rocking chair. Today you see them for sale in furniture stores and even in front of Cracker Barrel restaurants, but nothing beats the memories of your childhood and that old tattered chair that your grandmother held you and rocked you sleep in when visiting.
A wood rocking chair is an expensive seating accessory compared to even fifty years when it was more a mainstay piece in or outdoors. Even up to the post Civil War times, people would make their own wooden rocking chairs from wood cut and hewn from their own property. The harder the wood the longer a rocking chair will last, and that is why oak, hickory, and walnut are the most sought after hardwoods when making one of the timeless American classics. Making rockers by hand is a dying art, but there are a scant few that are trying to revive this all most forgotten craft of the past.
Handmade cushion pads where made to add even more comfort to indoor wooden rocking chairs, making them more comfy chairs. Although the best made chairs are carved out in a way that supports but is carved to make the seating and back of the chair more comfortable to sit in while rocking. When the chairs were at the apex of popularity, Lazy Boy recliners were not available, and comfort was more of a perceived notion, that was mostly conceived by a person just being able to get off their feet at the end of the day.
The children’s wooden rocking chairs are a part of almost everyone’s home at one time or another. They are low in cost, and if the child has a new baby brother or sister, they love to mimic their mother rocking the newborn brother or sister to sleep. They will take their favorite stuffed animal or doll and parrot their mom’s feeding routine in the chair, and then eventually the mini rocker becomes the “time out” chair when the terrible two over take them.
One thing there is never a shortage of is kids wooden rocking chairs, as they are available for sale in more places than you would ever imagine, retired gentlemen make part time vocations out of creating the mini-me type chairs and sell them at arts and crafts trade shows, and antique shops. The custom rocking chairs can be ordered with the child’s name three dimensionally carved into the back of the rocker with a router, then stained and clear-coated.
There is absolutely no shortage of used wood rocking chairs for adults and children, young people today do not cherish some things from relatives that have passed on, and cannot see themselves with a rocking chair in their home, as it will not fit into interior theme. Checking local online classifieds will usually reveal a half dozen or so of antique wood rockers that still have decades of use in them, and may only require refinishing, and tightening up. There is actually a great opportunity in creating a home business of buying or just finding used and discarded rocking chairs, and spend a couple of dollars and few hours making them look new to resell to others for a modest profit margin.
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