Toy Wood Barn Maker Reflects on CPSIA

[ This is another in a series of posts by Susan Maphis covering the impact of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA). For more information about the CPSIA, read Susan's previous article: The End Of Handmade and sign up for her CPSIA Alerts Mailing List ]

Cindy Chrysler is a Founding Consultant of Streamside Farm, a company that makes toy barns from 100% reclaimed barn wood. Currently, they are using cork pine from a barn that stood near Vassar, Michigan to build their miniature toy barns.

Each barn is individually hand crafted from wood gathered from historic barns around Michigan. Some of these barns were close to 150 years old, offering cork pine wood that is perfect for the creation of these miniature barns. The finished barns are never painted or stained, so each finished barn is all natural and free from any harmful chemicals.

Chrysler is not sure how the CPSIA will affect this unique business. “I believe we might be able to still make it work, but we would be narrowing our market even further than it already is,” she comments.

Two styles of barns are available, the Gambrel (shown above) and the Monitor. Streamside Farm also offers customers the option of creating a barn made from wood provided by the customer. You can read more about the business at StreamsideFarm.com.

[ For more information about the CPSIA, read Susan's previous article: The End Of Handmade]