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My wife went and spent a pile of money on a big painting so, of course, I had to make a piece of furniture to compliment it. Well, actually, she wanted to spend another pile of money on a bench for under it so I opened my mouth...
The painting is 6 ft wide and I guessed that a 5 ft bench would have the right proportions. I modeled it in sketchup and actually imported a photo of the painting so we could see what it looked like. SWMBO liked it so off to Crosscut Hardwoods with a credit card. The construction is pretty simple. Tapered legs and a mortise and tenon box skirt with a big ol slab of Walnut on top. Simple cleats hold the the top to the base. Four coats of hand rubbed oil based polyurethane to finish. For kicks, I included the sketchup "approval" model for comparison. I try to do this with every piece of furniture I make as it encourages buy in by the customer, er, SWMBO and heads off the "that's not what I thought it would look like" conversation. She is actually quite happy with the result and likes to put various things for show on it. This Thanksgiving and Christmas it had various holiday decorations and other times it displays books or small plants..
My wife went and spent a pile of money on a big painting so, of course, I had to make a piece of furniture to compliment it. Well, actually, she wanted to spend another pile of money on a bench for under it so I opened my mouth...
The painting is 6 ft wide and I guessed that a 5 ft bench would have the right proportions. I modeled it in sketchup and actually imported a photo of the painting so we could see what it looked like. SWMBO liked it so off to Crosscut Hardwoods with a credit card. The construction is pretty simple. Tapered legs and a mortise and tenon box skirt with a big ol slab of Walnut on top. Simple cleats hold the the top to the base. Four coats of hand rubbed oil based polyurethane to finish. For kicks, I included the sketchup "approval" model for comparison. I try to do this with every piece of furniture I make as it encourages buy in by the customer, er, SWMBO and heads off the "that's not what I thought it would look like" conversation. She is actually quite happy with the result and likes to put various things for show on it. This Thanksgiving and Christmas it had various holiday decorations and other times it displays books or small plants..
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