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Design or DYE
This week I finalized my design, did some color investigations, and went wood shopping!!!! I made my working drawings and figured out my dimensions. I want the table to be 20" tall, 10" wide with a 1" trim. I want to do a two-tone design with the interior being a contrasting color to the outside. I would like to keep the outside a wood-grain tone to showcase the wood and add a zing of color on the insider for interest and pizazz.
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| Plan view of 2 pieces |
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| Front & Side Elevation |
Originally I was going to do regular fingers joints to join the corners or my table but the more I looked at images of them I didn't like how the 2 toned nature of the end grain showed. So I started thinking maybe I can use that to my advantage or do something different. I started looking into decorative joints and mitered joints.
color investigation:
I want to stay in the matte, neutral color palette
My color 2 options are....
Light color wood, darker interior color
Darker color wood, light color interior
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| Yellow tone wood off set with cool blue or green hues |
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| Wood with a gray tone paired with mauvey, blue, cream hues |
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| neutral color palette |
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| I would love to find a wood with this interesting of a grain |
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| Another matte/neutral color tone |
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To see my full color inspiration ideas visit my pinterest page and follow me! designordye (shameless self plug)
Wood Shopping:
1st time doing it and to be honest it was a tad stressful! Mainly because I didn't want to spend an astronomical amount to make my table. If I weren't a student, I'd be happy to spend whatever and get exactly what I want!
We ventured out to Exotic Lumber in Gaithersburg, MD saturday morning to get a grad tour by the owner. I was a fun learning experience but when it came to picking the wood and figuring out the price, that was a bit of a doozey for a saturday morning! I ended up selecting ash as my wood because I liked the grain, finished tone, and price :) I'm excited to start making my table!!!!
Images from Exotic Lumber are below.....
1 comments:
Wow! I love your color studies. So now that you're going with a light wood what color will be the inside? Or are you going to stain the ash darker and go for a bright inside? Exotic Lumber was great.
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