Amish Tables Offers Custom Furniture to Local Residents

Shoppers looking for a more personal touch when buying furniture might want to make it a point to visit Amish Tables in downtown Plymouth.

Using five standard hard woods - Oak, Cherry, Hard Maple, Brown Maple and Quarter Sawn White Oak - products of Amish Tables are typically stronger and more durable than what someone might find in other furniture stores, according to Assistant Manager Torie Wyant

"Every product is made to order," Wyant said. "When you come to us, you really start the process at square one." 

Customers are able to find a product in the showroom or website, select a size, wood type and color stain.

"We have additional finishing techniques as well, you can get it to stretch, it can have saw marks on it, you can have it rubbed through or glazed," Wyant said. "There's a whole lot of ways to get a very customized look for a good price."

Wyant said the standard turnout on products is typically about three months, but sometimes a little less for the local market. 

Amish Tables was founded in the basement of Ann Arbor residents Wladyslaw & Nell Narowski in 1995. The company moved to Plymouth last May.

"It was kind of a perfect fit," Wyant said about the relocation. "We also thought that being in Plymouth gave us more of a central location between the Detroit area and Ann Arbor, the Toledo area and also North. Plymouth was more of a central location than Ann Arbor was."

The company started with just dining tables, then began picking up more products as it grew, according to Wyant.

"It kind of started buying and selling Amish style tables one at a time to people that they (the Narowskis) knew," she said. "Originally, it was just to fill a need for people to be able to seat their entire family around one table. The original tagline for the company was family happens around the table, and that's still something we really think is part of who we are."

Wyant said the company's main market is still tables. Its best sellers are the Ethan Leg Table, the French Farmhouse Leg Table and the Baytown Table. 

For more information, visit www.amishtables.com.