History

Little Colorado was established in 1986 in Golden, Colorado. From day one, the founders set their sights on building high-quality, wooden toddler furniture at a reasonable price, and for thirty years, as competitors moved manufacturing to Asia, they continued making all their products in the USA.

In 2016 Noelle Baker and her husband, Bill Hare, moved from Iowa to Denver to buy the business. Bill’s favorite class in high school was woodworking, and that interest led to an undergraduate degree in industrial design and to a thirty-year professional career in manufacturing and marketing within a Fortune 500 setting. But he had always imagined owning his own small business, and the opportunity at Little Colorado fulfilled that dream. Noelle is a writer and enthusiastic about any collaboration that fosters imagination, creative play, and social responsibility. Together, they are maintaining Little Colorado’s historic fidelity to quality, safety, and American-made, handcrafted furniture, but they are also expanding the scope of their toddler furniture line to emphasize clean, modern furniture, innovative toy boxes, and playful, interactive designs.