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The ski patrol cross and the Swiss flag, both hand painted onto real retired skis and ready for the wall. Roughly 24 inches tall and 14 inches wide, cut and painted one at a time in our Manitou Springs shop, so sizes vary a little. Good for the mudroom, the bar, or wherever the season pass hangs.
A real retired ski pole, cut down and mounted on a working plunger. That is the whole idea, and it has been a best seller for years because it is genuinely functional and genuinely ridiculous at the same time. This is the six pack, which is how most people end up buying them.
One retired snowboard, hand painted with a sunset mountain mural, turned into a 60 inch coffee table that also works as a bench. It runs about 60 inches by 18 by 17 with a 300 lb weight capacity. Light enough to move by yourself, tough enough to leave on the porch.
The word WELCOME runs the full length of a retired snowboard, hand lettered in whatever colors you pick. Roughly 60 inches tall and 11 inches wide, so it reads from the walkway instead of from two feet away. Color changes are free, which is not a sentence you hear often.
These custom, handcrafted and hand painted Whiskey Barrel – Guitar Floor Stands will add beauty to any size room!
Perfect handcrafted gift for any occasion!
Buy local, shop small and take advantage of these beautiful creations to impress your friends, family, clients or loved one with an impressive, memorable Colorado made creation!
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We also post daily to Instagram and Facebook and have many more designs and pictures on there as well.
A side table made from a retired whiskey barrel, 18 by 19 by 18 inches. The char and the darker stain from years of aging are still in the wood, which is why this one reads warmer than its wine barrel cousin. Hand painted and outdoor safe.
A heart set against a sunset mountain range, hand painted on a recycled snowboard so the curve of the board becomes part of the picture. Roughly 15 inches tall by 18 wide, give or take, since no two boards come off the hill the same size. Small enough for a hallway, loud enough to notice.
The problem with buying for a skier is that they have already bought the jacket, the goggles, the gloves and the boot dryer, and they have opinions about all of them. Gear is a minefield. What they do not have is furniture and decor made out of the gear they used to ride. That is a much easier gift to get right.
Everything here is handmade in Manitou Springs, Colorado from real retired skis and snowboards. Hand painted in exterior oils, no two identical, and priced from about sixty five dollars to a few hundred. These are gifts nobody already owns and nobody can buy in a shop, which is most of the job done.
Party skis and shot skis come out at every gathering from the day they arrive. Under two hundred dollars.
Coat hooks, wall art and hall trees that hang in an entryway for years rather than a season.
The Mystery Ski Chair. We pick, you find out when it arrives. Genuinely our favorite thing to send.
This page is the full list, and it is the right place to browse if you are still deciding. If you already know the person, these are narrower and faster.
The Ski Pole Plunger is exactly what it sounds like and has never once been described as a boring gift. Small carved wooden bears and the Welcome to Colorful Colorado wall art sit in the same band and travel well as a host or housewarming gift.
The 2-Boot ShotzSkis is the most reliably well received thing on this page. For walls, the HOME hand painted snowboard art, the Mystic Mountain heart and the Bigfoot mural all land in this range.
The Antique Crossed Skis Coat Hook is the practical one, five double hooks that actually hold wet gear. The Snowboard Coffee Table doubles as a boot bench, and the Mystery Ski Chair is the cheapest way to give somebody a full sized chair.
A full Adirondack ski chair, a bench, or a matched pair. See Adirondack Ski Chairs and Benches. This is milestone territory: retirements, big birthdays, anniversaries, wedding gifts from a group.
If you want the one that gets the reaction, it is furniture built from their own old skis. Take the pair out of their garage and send them to us, and we build them into a chair alongside skis from our own stock, because one chair takes four to five pairs and almost nobody has that many. Retirements, a last run, a season pass they still talk about, or gear that belonged to someone who is no longer here to ski on it. See Sentimental. Allow proper lead time for this one, and tell us the date.
If the gift is really for a gathering rather than a person, the shot skis, party skis and ski cornhole boards are gathered on the Apres Ski Gifts page. They get used far more than they get admired, which is the point.
Every piece is built by hand in Manitou Springs, from gear retired off real mountains, and for anyone who has moved away that provenance is most of the gift. The Colorado flag pieces, Garden of the Gods and the Manitou Incline art are gathered on the Colorado Made Gifts page.
Something made from the gear rather than more gear. Wall art, a coat hook, a party ski, or furniture built from their own retired skis. They cannot already own it, because it did not exist until it was built.
Shop Ready to Ship, which is everything already built and waiting. Those leave the shop within a few business days rather than the usual two to four weeks. Call 303.775.7273 if the date is tight and we will tell you honestly whether it will make it.
Yes, and it is the thing people react to most. Ship them, drop them off, or we will collect them anywhere in Colorado. If the original pair is long gone we can match something close.
Gifts here start around sixty five dollars and most people land between one hundred and three hundred. Above five hundred you are into full chairs and benches, which is milestone gift territory.
Yes, nationwide to the lower 48. Smaller gifts go parcel, chairs and benches go freight. Local delivery covers Colorado Springs, Denver, Breckenridge, Vail, Aspen and most of the state.
Yes. Hand painted names, dates, home mountains and team colors are all routine. A company logo is the exception: that goes on as a logo decal floated onto a painted background rather than being painted, because a mark has to hold its exact shape and color. Aluminum and plastic appliques are alternatives at different prices, and it can sit on the front or the back. Say what you want when you order, or call 303.775.7273 and describe it.
Skiers buy their own gear, and they are fussy about it, so gear is a hard gift to get right. What works is something about skiing that they would never buy for themselves. A coat hook made from antique skis by the back door. Wall art of the run they know by heart. A party ski for the driveway before the drive up. Or, at the top end, a chair built from the skis already sitting in their garage. The rule of thumb is simple: buy the memory, not the equipment.
Somewhere to put the wet stuff and somewhere to sit when the boots finally come off. That is why the coat hooks, the boot benches and the entry pieces sell as well as they do. After a full day nobody needs another gadget, they need a hook by the door and a bench that can take a wet jacket without anyone worrying about it.
Something built rather than bought. Handmade, from real materials, that lives outside and gets better looking as it weathers. A chair for the fire pit, a bench for the porch, a shot ski for the deck. The men who are hardest to shop for are usually the ones who already own every piece of gear they want, which is exactly why a piece of furniture made from retired skis lands so well. Call 303.775.7273 and describe him, we do this all the time.
Buying for a snowboarder rather than a skier? Most of these work either way, and the snowboard benches and tables are built from real boards. Buying for a business? See Branded Items. Or call 303.775.7273 and tell us who it is for.
Narrower lists, if you already know the person: Gifts for Snowboarders, Apres Ski Gifts, Ski Gifts for Him and Her, Colorado Made Gifts and Corporate Ski Gifts.
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