Feature Story : Kid's Collection

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The move is being done to supply families with everything that they might need in the way of bedroom furniture from the time an infant is brought into the home to the big move to college and everything in between.

"We are adding cribs and matching furniture, and loft bed systems to our inventory," said owner Abe Mast. "We will have nine different colors and 15 different styles of cribs to choose from, in addition to our locally handcrafted Amish lines. It all centers around our new motto, 'From Crib to College'." The two additions in the crib lines are "My Room" and "Sorelle", national lines which will bring a much larger selection from which to choose.

Kids Collection will carry all of their lines, and matching furniture. They will continue to carry all of the same educational toys, including the ever-popular Playmobile, Brio and Thomas lines, but the new focus will be on some of the larger furniture items for children and young adult rooms is part of the store's commitment to its new motto.

Along with the cribs, they carry a large line of loft systems, from single bed lofts up to triple lofts. "We have a lot of combinations for our lofts, including all of the matching desks and dressers," said Mast.

"We have recently become a 'University Loft' dealer, and we carry a lot of locally made lofts."
University Loft is one of the premier loft manufacturers, creating and testing their lofts at colleges and universities around the United States. The new lines recently made available at Kids Collection are relatively new, and only became available nationwide four months ago.

With the expansion, Kids Collection will now be in one store. There will be more than 4,500 square feet of toys, games and furniture, which includes furnishings like pictures, book shelves, hat racks and much more.

"We wanted to tie our stores together more by opening up the wall between the stores," said Mast. Prior to the expansion, the toy store and the furniture store were side-by-side in the shopping mall complex on St. Rt. 39, just west of Walnut Creek in front of the Holmes County Amish Flea Market.

For more information, call Kids Collection at 330-893-4122 or stop by from Monday through Friday form 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., or Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.