Unfinished Wood Furniture Kansas City
Leonard Mozer doesn’t accept to spell out the affection of his amateurish appliance to customers.
["388"]It’s axiomatic in the weight of the chests, chairs, tables, cabinets, benches and bookcases complete of oak, maple, ache and added woods.
It’s accessible in the absolute analogous of chiffonier aperture corners and in the way drawers coast in and out with a bald touch.
It’s apparent back the Mozers, Leonard and his wife, Reva, allocution about echo barter or those who appetite to buy appliance for their accouchement like they had back they were tots.
It’s additionally axiomatic in Mozer’s description of his stock: “Everything we accept is copse — no atom board.”
The 77-year-old relays those words as a account of actuality afterwards imbuing them with articulation that would characterize atom lath as an inferior material.
The Mozers accept been in business in the aforementioned architecture at 136 S. Ninth St. for 50 years. There was a anniversary commemorating the accident in February.
Despite that milestone, Mozer considers it alone a bar to footfall over because he affairs to accumulate alive “until they backpack me away.”
Bob McDowell, who owns A-1 Pawn Shop beyond the street, said he couldn’t say abundant acceptable things about the Mozers, whom he’s accepted for a continued time.
["777.94"]“They are aloof baby people,” McDowell said, extolling Leonard’s acceptance with the Ninth Artery merchants and singling out Reva’s advance work.
“They are hard-working, honest, salt-of the apple people.” McDowell said.
Over the years, the Mozers accept afflicted the shop’s name from House of Color to Leonard’s House of Color to Leonard’s Amateurish Furniture. During that time, they additionally alone acrylic and wallpaper from their account —though they backpack stains and finishes that almost the attending of acrylic — and concentrated on the amateurish furniture, dollhouses and miniature furniture.
When he started, Mozer said he was accustomed with the acrylic business but knew little about amateurish furniture. No one in Lincoln awash it. In fact, there was alone one such abundance in the accompaniment and that was in Omaha, Mozer said.
Mozer said he asked the buyer of the Omaha business for advice but was angry abroad because, Mozer believes, the man capital to aggrandize to Lincoln.
“I went to Kansas City and (a man in business there) let me go through all of his account and accessible the boxes. And that is area I begin a lot of the manufacturers,” Mozer said.
Today, Mozer said, there is an amateurish appliance alignment and a assemblage area retailers can apprentice about manufacturers. But in 1957, back the abstraction of aperture such a abundance was beginning in his mind, Mozer said, there was no such alignment in existence.
“Everything we advertise is assembled,” Mozer said, unless the chump requests otherwise.
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Unfinished Wood Furniture Kansas City - Laura Williams | Unfinished Wood Furniture Kansas City“We accord bodies step-by-step admonition on how to accomplishment their furniture,” Mozer said.
The Mozers enlisted the aid of their grandson, Nick Mozer, now 13, to authorize the store’s Web site. Calling Nick “a computer whiz,” Mozer says his grandson, who lives in Kansas City, Mo., had been afterwards him for three or four years to let him architecture a site.
Now, whenever there is article to be added to the site, Mozer quipped, “I accept to allocution to my computer manager.”
Mozer said the Web armpit accepted its account appropriate away.
“It is absolutely a admirable thing. The aboriginal chump we had from the Web armpit was from Sioux City, Iowa. We awash a accomplished kitchen.”
While the Web armpit keeps the abundance abreast on the technology front, the Mozers accumulate giving the affectionate of answers and advice that accept been built-in in their chump account from day one.
Reva Mozer, who afresh retired from volunteering at the Lincoln Children’s Museum, waits on customers, answers the buzz and does the computer assignment for the business.
Another aspect of the store’s business is dollhouses.
["1331.81"]Though the abundance sells dollhouses both as kits and assembled, McDowell acclaimed Leonard has “got the backbone of Job” in accumulating them. “I couldn’t put the dollhouses together. He’s alien them all over the country.”
The Mozers’ appliance exhibit is not a alveolate barn acute a lot of walking. Nor is it appointed with abundant carpets, different lamps or admirable annual arrangements.
Rather, the Mozers, who accept invested in ability and warmth, accept provided two apartment of appliance for browsing.
An array of styles is available: traditional, mission, shaker, avant-garde and colonial. Appliance catalogs on duke accumulation a deluge of added choices.
“Our barter ambit from farmers to able bodies to adolescent affiliated couples,” Leonard Mozer said. “It is usually addition who has acquaintance with amateurish appliance or it can be addition who had atom lath appliance and had to bandy it away.”
Mozer acclaimed some buy amateurish appliance because it is cheaper while others try to bout absolute pieces.
Mozer said one brace who came into his abundance capital two night stands to bout their bedchamber set, which had been discontinued. He said they were able to acquisition and adjustment “almost the exact aforementioned thing” through his store.
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