Designing furniture for my home.

So this is my first blog. I am in the process of moving and chucking the furniture my wife bought fresh out of college over 10 years ago when she was a poor law student.

Now we are moving to a bigger apartment with our 3 year old and need to get all new furniture. Lucky for me (and my wife) I'm a furniture designer and builder. I have a business called Alancraft based out of the New York metro area. So whatever we want, we will get.

I guess now is the time to tell you a little about myself. Like I said, I design and build furniture and cabinets. I really love the creativity of the design and the zen of building it.

Lucky for me, I live in New York City which is full of inspiration for design ideas. New York is also a wealthy town and creativity comes from wealth. I have had the opportunity to work with some great high end interior designers who had clients with lots of money to spend. So I get to play around with amazing exotics woods and designs.

So I have been checking out some nice furniture stores in Soho to figure out what we want for our own home. I was really impressed by the Armani Olimpo drawer sets. The piece is simple yet elegent and has a few features that seperate it from the rest: soft close slides, 1" thick drawer fronts, the drawers are finished the same as exterior and super sleek low profile handels (bronze) that realy complete the unit. I also like the different finishes and veneers especially the Sukupira and Grey oak which is a really nice and unusual finish.

I am really going to enjoy building furniture for myself for a change.

The list is long and time is short, gotta to get to work.