Facility Consolidation Costs	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2011
Facility Consolidation Costs [Abstract]
Facility Consolidation Costs	Note 7 – Facility consolidation costs: In November 2010, management approved a restructuring plan for our Furniture Components segment to move precision slide production from our Byron Center, Michigan facility to our other precision slide manufacturing facilities in Kitchener, Ontario and Taipei, Taiwan. The move, which was substantially completed in April 2011, reduced the facilities where we produce precision slides from three to two and is expected to enhance the operating efficiency of our precision slide production capacity. As of September 30, 2011, approximately $191,000 of severance costs and approximately $2.0 million of machinery and equipment relocation costs from the Byron Center facility to the Kitchener facility had been expensed, mostly in the first six months of 2011. No additional severance and equipment relocation costs are expected to be incurred subsequent to September 30, 2011. At the time management approved the Furniture Components restructuring discussed above in November 2010, we intended to continue to utilize the Byron Center facility for light assembly and warehousing of product to service our U.S. customers. After operating the facility from the first quarter of 2011 to the latter part of the third quarter of 2011, we determined that continued use of the Byron Center facility for warehousing and light assembly was no longer necessary to serve our U.S. customers. Accordingly, in September 2011 management made the decision to sell the facility, at which time such facility met all of the criteria under GAAP to be classified as an "asset held for sale." In classifying the facility (land and building) as held for sale, we concluded that the carrying amount of the assets exceeded the estimated fair value less costs to sell such assets. In determining the estimated fair value of such assets, we obtained an independent appraisal. Based on this appraisal, we recognized a write-down of $910,000 during the third quarter of 2011 to reduce the carrying value of the asset to its estimated fair value less cost to sell. At September 30, 2011 our assets held for sale consisted of the Byron Center facility discussed above and two additional properties (primarily land, building and building improvements) formerly used in our operations. These assets were classified as "assets held for sale" when they ceased to be used in our operations and met all of the applicable criteria under GAAP. During the third quarter of 2011 due to continued negative local market conditions, we obtained an updated independent appraisal for the River Grove facility, the most significant of these two properties. Based on this appraisal, we recognized an additional write-down of $225,000 during the third quarter of 2011 to reduce the carrying value of that asset to its estimated fair value less cost to sell. These write-downs totaled $1.1 million in the third quarter of 2011 and are included in corporate operating expense. The appraisals represent a Level 2 input as defined by ASC 820-10-35. The carrying value of the remaining property is not significant. All three properties are being actively marketed; however, due to the current state of the commercial real estate market, we can not be certain of the timing of the disposition of these assets.

Facility Consolidation Costs

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2011

Facility Consolidation Costs [Abstract]

Note 7 – Facility consolidation costs:

In November 2010, management approved a restructuring plan for our Furniture Components segment to move precision slide production from our Byron Center, Michigan facility to our other precision slide manufacturing facilities in Kitchener, Ontario and Taipei, Taiwan. The move, which was substantially completed in April 2011, reduced the facilities where we produce precision slides from three to two and is expected to enhance the operating efficiency of our precision slide production capacity. As of September 30, 2011, approximately $191,000 of severance costs and approximately $2.0 million of machinery and equipment relocation costs from the Byron Center facility to the Kitchener facility had been expensed, mostly in the first six months of 2011. No additional severance and equipment relocation costs are expected to be incurred subsequent to September 30, 2011.

At the time management approved the Furniture Components restructuring discussed above in November 2010, we intended to continue to utilize the Byron Center facility for light assembly and warehousing of product to service our U.S. customers. After operating the facility from the first quarter of 2011 to the latter part of the third quarter of 2011, we determined that continued use of the Byron Center facility for warehousing and light assembly was no longer necessary to serve our U.S. customers. Accordingly, in September 2011 management made the decision to sell the facility, at which time such facility met all of the criteria under GAAP to be classified as an "asset held for sale." In classifying the facility (land and building) as held for sale, we concluded that the carrying amount of the assets exceeded the estimated fair value less costs to sell such assets. In determining the estimated fair value of such assets, we obtained an independent appraisal. Based on this appraisal, we recognized a write-down of $910,000 during the third quarter of 2011 to reduce the carrying value of the asset to its estimated fair value less cost to sell.

At September 30, 2011 our assets held for sale consisted of the Byron Center facility discussed above and two additional properties (primarily land, building and building improvements) formerly used in our operations. These assets were classified as "assets held for sale" when they ceased to be used in our operations and met all of the applicable criteria under GAAP. During the third quarter of 2011 due to continued negative local market conditions, we obtained an updated independent appraisal for the River Grove facility, the most significant of these two properties. Based on this appraisal, we recognized an additional write-down of $225,000 during the third quarter of 2011 to reduce the carrying value of that asset to its estimated fair value less cost to sell.

These write-downs totaled $1.1 million in the third quarter of 2011 and are included in corporate operating expense. The appraisals represent a Level 2 input as defined by ASC 820-10-35. The carrying value of the remaining property is not significant. All three properties are being actively marketed; however, due to the current state of the commercial real estate market, we can not be certain of the timing of the disposition of these assets.