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Sunday, January 10, 2016

Stainless Steel Drainboard

Our extra large home kitchen stainless steel drainboard is USA Amish made. Tired of those flimsy plastic drainboards?  This stainless steel drainboard will hold heaps of dishes, large pots, pans and cooking utensils.

Our popular standard home kitchen sink stainless steel drainboard is used by single or empty nest couples who don’t routinely have enough dishes to run a dishwasher. Drainboards are a basic necessity for those living in homes without dishwashers, or for off-grid kitchens.




These old fashioned drainboards could be found in most home kitchens at the turn of the century before electricity was made available to the common household.  Families large and small would hand washed dishes and other cooking utensils and then stacked them up on dish drying racks to air dry.

Without a drainboard to catch the water droplets under the dish racks water ran out and over the counter top and down the cabinet fronts and out on to the floor.

Many homes were equipped with kitchen sinks with a built in drain board, others relied on a slanted drain board like these to catch the droplets and channel the water back into the kitchen sink.

Over the years drainboard manufactures have cut corners to save money ending up with smaller flat plastic drainboards. The plastic drainboards sit flat on the kitchen counter with no slope to drain back into the kitchen sink. They are also not very attractive often sold with a plastic dish drainer rack that will only hold a small amount of dishes at a time.

Our Amish drainboards are not something that you will want to stuff under the kitchen sink when company comes. In fact your company will likely enjoy helping to cleanup during the holidays and then ask where they can also find one for their home.  

This stainless steel will fit at home in stainless steel kitchens and our decorator drain boards will fit at home in kitchens with black appliances.

The Amish who still live as people did at the turn of the century, living off grid with no dishwashers preparing meals daily for large families.  Like many of our products, we find them being made deep in the Amish communities and bring them to the general public via our online back-to-basics general store.

Stainless steel drainboards are one of our most popular functional use products that we sell. We offer them in either a closed back, with a back lip or an open back without the back lip.  The open back is a bit cheaper to make so we pass on the savings to our customers. Those who might need to also use the drain board to spray off dishes or to double as another prep area will appreciate the back lip when spraying off vegetables as well as flat ware.

With the popularity of these drainboards for close to a decade now we have also been asked to make and offer a decorator series drainboard for granite counter tops. These powder coated drainboards are available in cooper vane or black granite.

We also make stainless steel drainboards in custom sizes to fit a variety of different applications from larger to smaller, side drain to small commercial and food truck users.

Cottage Craft Works .com is a sustainable living back-to-basics general store offering old fashioned functional use items that are still being made and used in the Amish communities.  Scrolling through the www.cottagecraftworks.com online store of old fashioned products is like taking a trip back in time.










Thursday, January 7, 2016

Spring Fever Landscape Woodworker Wagon Kits

If you’re getting a touch of spring fever for the garden and outdoors consider building one of these cute scaled replica wood wagons, peddler-market carts or wheelbarrow. 

These wagons and carts will make the perfect spring gift or a nice display for your own yard or garden space.

Large wagon boxes will hold an ample display of flowers and plants. Old fashioned replica buckboard wagons, express wagons or peddler carts will bring back those nostalgic times while providing functional uses.

Wagon and cart kits include the plans, the metal wheels and the stub axles to build these fun ornamental displays.

You supply the wood for your specific purpose. Use treated lumber for exterior applications to even hardwoods for interior furniture or store displays.

Cottage Craft Works.com has assembled a large selection of wood working kits as well as complete ready-made ornamental wagons and carts.


Cottage Craft Works www.cottagecraftworks.com is a full line country store bringing back old fashioned vintage products.


Cottage Craft Works also offers other woodworking kits and hardware to build sewing cabinets, a replica J & P Coats spool cabinet as well as full sized wagon and buckboard seats.











                                                       Vendor Cart Plans & Wheel Kit






Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Scooter Kick Bike Ultimate Workout

Colorful push scooters as seen on TV exercise commercials and Amish shows; push scooters use regular bicycle wheels with a standing platform. 

They help deliver low impact calorie burning squats and improved balance. Riders push back with one foot and then glide along.  

Some riders who are not able to mount and ride a regular bicycle such as disabled or stroke victims have found that a push scooter bike gives them back the freedom and enjoyment of cycling. 

The low foot boards allow for a routine cadence as the rider scoots along as they would ride a regular bicycle.

Push scooters are available in all sizes from kids 12” all the way up to adult 20” and 24” wheel sizes.  High pressure racing tires are preferred by adult scooter enthusiast who feels they provide less resistance.  

Some prefer a combination of a larger wheel on the front such as a 24” and a smaller wheel on the back such as a 20”. They feel it helps to improve the overall ride and maneuverability.

For those hard core scooter kick bike enthusiasts light weight all aluminum versions are also available.

Scooter Kick Bikes are available with baskets, kick stands, lights and safety flags just like a regular bike.

Best of all these workout machines are easy to maintain there’s no chains, or gears to mess with.

USA made scooter kick bikes are made and used in the Amish communities. The Amish depend on these human powered transporters for short trips to town, school and work.

Cottage Craft Works.com is an online emporium of hard to find USA Amish made products. Amish scooter kick bikes are one of the best selling products at Cottage Craft Works online general store.






Sewing Machine Lift & Cabinet Hardware

Build your own sewing cabinet using our hard to find hardware. We supply sewing machine air lifts, cabinet lid and sewing machine head hinges and even the old fashioned treadle hardware.

The hardware is the same as used in Amish handcrafted sewing cabinets that we also sell. Our Amish hardware distributor sells this same hardware across the country to Amish cabinet builders. We just bring it to you via online.

The German made sewing machine air lift is the same heavy duty lift rated at 50 lbs that others are selling for much more.

The recessed sewing cabinet hinges are designed to reduce fabric snags as the material is being pulled over the cabinet into the sewing bed.

Cottage Craft Works .com is an online self-sufficient living general store with a specialty in Amish sewing cabinets and hardware.  www.cottagecraftworks.com


Much more than just a sewing cabinet company Cottage Craft Works is a full line general store for the home, garden and ranch.


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