Primitive Wooden Game Boards

Primitive Wooden Game Boards seem to be my passion lately.  Check out a few of my new creations currently listed at Sunrise Acres Farm Primitives
Several ladies recently have purchased 3 boards or more for use in their new wall samplers.

Add a checker board and 1 or 2 Parcheesi game boards for a really great Early American, Primitive, Colonial, Country wall display sampler.

I love creating these.  I make them from new wood, old barn wood and hoping my freshly cut walnut & oak will dry soon.  It takes months for those woods to dry out so that will be another story for later.

Here are the new game board creations I've been busy making:

I'm calling this my windmill parcheesi game board, crafted in primitive colors of red, mustard, black & cream

Primitive Red Star Parsheesi is one of my favorite designs.  You may have saw this design on my barn wood game boards.

Barn wood Primitive Parcheesi game board in black & white.  I love this one it's one of my current favorites!

Let me know what you think!

Primitive & Early American Christmas Sale

Sunrise Acres Farm is having a sale to clean off our shelves and get ready for next years Textiles & linens.  Just in time for Christmas.  I will be adding to this all day today our Christmas sale will run from Dec 6th - Dec 21st.  Whatever you don't see on sale put the words "Dec 25" in the comments on your order and I will give you a 15% discount.  * This will not apply to items already marked for sale! 

Sunrise Acres Farm Christmas Sale

Primitives, Textiles, Linens, blankets, ticking sheets, primitive throws, table runners, more!

Items tend to sell out quickly, so get your in order in now!

I said I'm cleaning out the shop so I can ready for a new 2013 spring inventory.

Christmas Sale 12/6 to 12/21

Early American Chevron Weave Black 82 x 104 50/50 chevron black full $114.71 $76.48	Brick Banded Linen Bolster brick banded bolster $35.00 $20.00	Chevron Homespun Blanket Coverlet Brown Only Solid chevron Brown coverlet $114.71 $76.48	Brown Banded Linen Bolster brown banded bolster $35.00 $20.00
Angstadt #5 Table Square Black Angstadt #5 Table Square Black $32.78 $21.85	Angstadt #5 Table Square Brick Angstadt #5 Table Square Brick $30.00 $20.00	Angstadt #5 Table Square Brown Angstadt #5 Table Square Brown $32.78 $21.85	Fraktur Table Square Black Fraktur Square Black $25.00 $20.00
Fraktur Table Square Brown Fraktur Square Brown $27.31 $21.85	Seven Snowballs for Seven Pines Throw Brick/Linen SSFSP brick linen $45.00 $30.00	Primitive Early Textile Homespun Blanket Stripe 7 Brick Linen stripe 7 brick linen $105.00 $85.00	Homespun Primitive Reproduction Blanket Grid 5 brown on linen grid 5 blanket brown linen $95.00 $80.00
Homespun Primitive Reproduction Blanket Grid 5 red on linen grid 5 blanket red/linen $90.00 $80.00	Homespun Primitive Reproduction Blanket Grid 5 brown antique grid 5 blanket brown $90.00 $80.00	Antique White Linen Coverlet Antique White Linen Coverlet $114.71 $92.86	Primitive Colonial Homespun Blanket Black Stripe 12 Queen strip 12 black tan $100.00 $90.00
Early Colonial Homespun Blanket King Black Stripe King blanket 11 black/antique $120.00 $100.00	Primitive Colonial Homespun Blanket Blue Stripe 12 Queen stripe 12 blue tan $100.00 $90.00	Primitive Colonial Homespun Blanket Brown Stripe 12 Queen stripe 12 brown tan $100.00 $90.00	Colonial Primitive Throw TN Lovers Knot Red Brown lovers knot red/brown 51x53 $45.00 $35.00

Game Boards, Board Games, & Marble Games

My passion is Primitives or time worn looking items that I may have loved as a child while visiting with my grandmothers.  Both of my grandmothers were country people both living through the depression which I'm sure shaped how they perceived life and shared in the simple joys of making a lot of their goods used in their daily lives.  They both gardened, sewed, quilted, both seemed to putter around in cotton dresses made by them.

I guess your asking what this has to do with game boards & marble games?  Well my grandmother on my mothers side would play cards, board games, had a big jar of old marbles.  We're not talking fancy store bought, we're talking about mostly checkers on an old board well that looks like some of my wooden game boards and beautiful marbles, some handmade I'm sure.

Granny T taught me how to play marble games in the dirt.  You want find many kids in the dirt today.  Back then we had play clothes that stayed stained from being on our knees or backside sitting in a clear dirt area.  I remember the ground was hard packed with just a little dust.  I guess from all those marble games she coached from her chair.  She would sometimes get down there with me.  I guess she couldn't resist being involved in a game.


I spent a lot of summers next door with her.  I would hit her up to play checkers with me.  Of course she had a daily routine that usually included, breakfast, wash dishes, laundry, lunch, more dishes, work in the garden or flower beds, but late in the afternoon around 4 it was time to take her rocker out under a shade tree if it was nice and admire her flower beds.  That's when she would take the time to play checkers.  This was her wind down, maybe even quality time spent with me watching the checker board and occasionally staring off into the close flower garden to see butterflies move from one flower to the next.  She would always challenge me, no this was not one of those Grannies that let you win. 

So I guess you could say every time I cut a new game board, sand, paint, or cut holes in a new creation My Granny T is probably on my mind.  I see her blue eyes with her bobbed hair thinking strategy to beat me at this lovely game of checkers on this lovely summer afternoon, when times were much simpler and time was made for a game and enjoyed!

Today for me as I head out to my work shop on my mind are the memories of Granny T and how she shaped my love for Board Games, Marbles, & Wooden Game Boards and maybe even sparked my competitive nature.  To see my wooden game board creations, checker boards, Parcheesi, Chinese checkers visit Sunrise Acres Farm Primitives.

 

Aggravation Game Board

 

Black & White Checker Board

 

Red & Black Checker Board

  

Barn Wood Checker Board

 

Primitive Star Barn Wood Parcheesi Game Board

Old House Primitives Latest Products Summer 2012

Old House Primitives has added new Primitive Home Decor, Early American Textiles, Linens, Braided Rugs & a few of Sunrise Acres Farm's new Primitive Game Boards

Latest Products for July 2012

New Products added weekly at Old House Primitives for your Primitive, Colonial, Early American, Cottage, or Country Home.

Primitive Nesting Boxes Coverlet Pattern set of 3 medium prim nesting boxes med $35.00	Primitive Nesting Boxes set of 3 LG Prim nesting boxes 3 LG $45.00	Primitive Nesting Boxes Set of 12 in Old Coverlet Pattern Nesting boxes set of 12 $150.00 $120.00	Primitive Hat Boxes - Old Coverlet Pattern - set of 3XL Coverlet Nesting boxes XL set of 3 $50.00
Primitive Braided Rug Westchester 24x36 oval Westchester oval 24x36 $40.00 $30.00	Primitive Braided Rug Westchester 27x48 rectangular Westerchester 27x48 rectangular $40.00	Primitive Braided Rug Westchester Oval 36x60 Westchester 36x60 oval $60.00	Primitive Braided Rug Westchester 27 x 48 oval Westchester 27x48 oval rug $40.00
Primitive Liberty Square Braided Rug Liberty Square Oval 36x60 $60.00 $50.00	Art Checker Board Set in Black/Mustard/Gray modern black/mustard checker board $50.00	Chevron Antique Homespun Coverlet Solid Chevron Antique Coverlet $105.00	Primitive Homespun Blanket #9 black stripe on antique background blanket 9 black/antique $105.00
Colonial Ticking Summer Sheets Black & Linen bottom & top sheet black/linen $160.00	Colonial Fraktur Sham Brick Red on Linen Fraktur sham red $35.00	Antique Threadwork Pillow Sham Antique threadwrok sham $35.00	Colonial Fraktur Sham Black on Linen Fraktur Sham Black $30.00

Old Game Board Listings

Primitive Old Game Boards

Primitive Old Gameboards, Checker Boards, Parcheesi, Chinese Checkers, Barn Wood Game Boards, Game Boards look like time worn Primitives handmade crafted & hand painted by Sunrise Acres Farm.

Latest listings for 2012 

Be sure to see our other Early American & Primitive Home Decor

Old Primitive Black White Checker Board Set black white cboard $40.00	Primitive Parcheesi Carousel Game Board Primitive Carousel Game Board $55.00	Primitive Star Barn Wood Parcheesi Game Board Primitive Star Barn Wood Parcheesi Game Board $65.00	Primitive Barn Wood Checker Board 100 year Old Wood Primitive Barn Wood Checker Board 100 year Old Wood $70.00
Primitive Star Barn Wood Game Board 100 years old barn wood star 13 3/4 x 20 $60.00	Primitive Old Barn Wood Game Board Black bl/cream 15 x 20 barn wood bl bg bl/cr 15x20 $75.00	Primitive Barn Wood Checker Board 100 year Old Wood 18x20.5 100 yr barn wood bl/wh 18x20.5 $75.00	Primitive Chinese Checker Game Board Black Red Red, Black, Cream, Chinese Checkers Set $55.00
Mustard Chinese Checkers Game Set mustard chinese checker set $55.00	Barn Wood Trim Chinese Checker Dark Red barn wood trim red long chinese ch $70.00	Art Checker Board Set in Black/Mustard/Gray art checker board must/gray/black $55.00	Game Board Mini Set of 100 year old barn wood mini barn wood set black linen $25.00
Game Board - Chinese Checkers Barn Wood Red Barnwood red chinese checker 16x21 $75.00	Game Board - Checker Board Red Black White checkers 15x15 red/black/white $45.00