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The Beauty of Nature Our furniture is made to stand the test of time. We use the same native American woods that have given handmade New England furniture their lasting value and aesthetic character. Tiger Maple, Cherry, White Ash, Black Walnut, and Pine are enhanced with dyes and glazes by our skilled finisher. We use a multi-layered, environmentally friendly finish process that creates a durable, water-resistant surface that is then given a soft low sheen glow by the application of a beeswax rub. Custom Furniture While everything we make is built to order and we are well known for our beautiful Windsor Chairs, beds, tables, and our line of Shaker furniture, we are equally proud of the furniture that we can custom design and build for you. We will make a scale drawing based on your ideas for a piece to fit your home. From desks, chests, bookcases, coffee tables, beds, or whatever you may have in mind, we will use our design and woodworking skills to make your wish come true. Guaranteed to Last a Lifetime We believe in doing things right the first time. We make every effort to make you the best piece of furniture we can, and we stand behind our craft and the quality of the woods we use. Should you have a problem with the construction of our furniture at any time during the lifetime of the original owner due to workmanship or failure of the wood, excluding normal wear and tear, we will fix it at no charge. You pay only the shipping to and from our shop. Owners Mike and Jana Timchak invite you to visit Windsor Chairmakers workshop and showroom.Browse through eighteen rooms of handcrafted furniture in two 1840’s farmhouses and Shaker Furniture Gallery.Stop into the converted barn workshop and discover the remarkable connection to the past and the meaning of quality craftsmanship. More About Lincolnville As you browse through our showroom you will discover new ideas and inspirations for your home. You ll find beautiful examples of our furniture in a variety of native woods and a rainbow of finishes for you to see, feel and try out. TablesAs with our chairs and beds, every table we make is built to order, so almost anything is possible. We use only solid wood, never any veneer, or manufactured substrates. Tiger maple, Cherry, Ash, Pine, Hard maple or Walnut can be handcrafted into the table of your dreams. View the Windsor Chairmakers Table Gallery BenchesLike all Windsor Chairmakers fine furniture, our bench are built to meet your needs and desires. View examples of Shaker benches, trestle benches and bucket benches. View our benches photo gallery and pricing Windsor ChairsOur Windsor chairs are not a reproduction or copy of an antique. Our chairs are original designs made with comfort and durability in mind. We make Windsors with the aesthetic appeal of 18th century chairs and utilize the best of traditional joinery. We make our chairs with contemporary ergonomics built into the design and we use the most durable epoxy in all of our chair joints and the most durable finishes available. View the Windsor Sack Back Arm Chair Photo Gallery BedsWindsor Chairmakers offers six different handmade bed styles from which to chose. All of our beds are available in a variety of native woods and beautiful finishes. We make our beds in any size, from twin to king. We can also custom design a new bed style to meet your specific needs. View the Windsor Chairmakers Bed Gallery Windsor StoolsEach of our stools is handmade, hand finished and carefully inspected to make sure it will stand the test of time. A family heirloom to pass on for generations to come. View Stools photo gallery and pricing Windsor Chairmakers’ Wedding Registry is the perfect place to choose custom handmade furniture that will be a beautiful and functional part of the life you will be sharing together. Learn More Jana was born in Portland, Oregon in 1963, and raised in Fayetteville, New York. As far back as she can remember she was always creating some type of visual art. Her first love was drawing but then she began working with watercolors and acrylics. The artist enjoyed the mediums so much that she continued to wider her interest in art and improve her technique. During her years in high school from 1978 -1981 at Fayetteville-Manlius she won numerous art awards for her work.In 1984 she enrolled in Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute and Onondaga Community College in Utica, New York, where she majored in printmaking. Jana received an Associates Degree from Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute in 1986. She then decided to continue her education by enrolling in the Maryland Institute College of Art where she pursued her Bachelors Degree in printmaking with a minor in painting. She received her BFA from MICI in 1989.After graduating she moved back to upstate New York and settled into the Finger Lakes region to continue her painting and printmaking career. In 1991 she had a one-person show at a gallery in Syracuse, New York which received rave reviews.During the summer of 1991, Jana visited an artist friend in Camden, Maine, and loved it so much that she decided to stay. She fell in love with the beautiful coastline and panoramic views of Penobscot Bay and the islands. Jana has painted a series of watercolors titled “Mussel Rocks” which won an award in the Huston Tuttle curried show in 1991.The artist now lives in Lincolnville, Maine, with her husband and two boys, where she paints, draws, cooks and enjoys the place she loves most…home. John Bonning (1921-2010) was born in Buffalo, New York. He studied at the Art Institute of Buffalo and later at the Society of Arts and Crafts in Detroit, Michigan and at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan.In the 1950s and the 1960s he worked as a commercial artist for the Ford Motor Company, Chrysler Corporation, and Burroughs Corporation.Born 1961I grew up in Fayetteville, New York, then the relatively quiet small-town suburbs of Syracuse. Being creative and making things was the cornerstone of my childhood, it was fostered, encouraged, and valued by both parents. My mother was a painter and my father had studied landscape architecture. I was fortunate to have had many nurturingand inspiring art teachers all my years in public schools. Ellie O Connell, the surrealist painter, was a close family friend and occasional teacher in her lovely studio/gallery made from a converted church.I attended the Rhode Island School of Design intending to study painting and or illustration but instead declared Light Metals as my major at the end of freshman foundation, something I knew very little about. The difficulty of mastering the technical aspects of metalsmithing before being able to realize design was intriguing and the process was both frustrating and rewarding. In an attempt to add more color I experimented extensively in enameling. Many of my electives were taken in the glass department. I had some stained glass experience from high school which I was keen to expand on. Then I discovered the energy and immediacy of blowing glass and it openedmy world. It was amazing to just be around and witness the hot shop, I loved the scene. The popularity of glass as an art form was skyrocketing due in no small part to Dale Chihuly who was then the head of the Glass Dept and one of my professors. It was an exciting time, spending days working on metalsmithing and evenings in the glass department.In the summer of my junior year, I took a job teaching jewelry making at a summer camp in the western mountains of Maine. I fell in love with the state and resolved to live here. I took a job as a goldsmith/designer with Camden Jewelry Co. the fall after graduation in 1984. My husband and I own and run it to this day. My passion is working on highkarat gold pieces and gemstones.Over the years I have gone back to painting dabbling at times, but it wasn t until a few years ago that a serious desire developed and now I m becoming obsessed. I enjoy being outside in every season, walking, hiking, biking, skiing, swimming, paddling, and climbing in this incredibly beautiful state. My outdoor activities are enhanced now by the search and study of light, color, and composition. I work from photos and the memory and emotions from my journeys often rushing home to capture something before the mental image and feeling fade.I live in Lincolnville on a few acres surrounded by woods where I enjoy gardening and raising fowl. I have two grown sons; one a musician and goldsmith, the other a college student, avid outdoorsman, and a chair maker at Windsor Chairmakers. Colors may not be accurate on all computer or mobile device screens. Dye lots are subject to variations in tone. Flame stitch tape adds $40 to chair price. Rattan is available in Natural color only and is wet woven around a five ply cardboard core in a herringbone pattern. Rattan adds 100.00 to base price of standard tape seat chairs. Solid color and multi-stripe tape is available in 5/8 . 5/8 is woven in herringbone pattern. 7/8 flame stitch tape is also woven in herringbone pattern. Solid colors are available in 1 widths and woven in a basket weave pattern. Colors may not be accurate on all computer or mobile device screens. Once you place a deposit on your order, we will gladly send you finish samples to view in your home in order to make your color, distress, edge and surface selections easier. We offer tables in square, rectangular. round, and oval shapes. We also offer what we call squarish or rectangularish shapes. These are softened versions of square and rectangular tables. We also offer live edge tables in rectangular or square shapes using the natural shape of the raw lumber as the edge on two sides of the table To determine the overall size of your table, it is best to start with the size of the space it will be going into. Measure length and width of the space then subtract 60 from those measurements in both directions, this is allowing for a minimum of 30 of space around the table in all directions. If you have more than 30 it is even better. 34 to 36 is ideal. Allow 22 for each side chair. Random Proud Spindle Usually three of the eight back spindles, and on arm chairs, one of the front arm supports are left a bit “proud” above the surface of the bow, about 1/16”. The edges a chamfered with a chisel and the sanded. This gives the impression of a chair that has aged with time and wear through years of seasonal shrinking and expanding. Many antique Windsor chairs have proud spindles.

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