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This is my new linen closet in the hall next to the guest bath. I had fun with this one. The doors are solid hardwood, red oak raised panels with padouk stiles and rails. Padouk comes from West Africa. |
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It's hard to see how beautiful the grain of the padouk looks in the photographs. The red color is natural, no stains were used. I milled the stiles and rails to a Roman Ogee pattern. The red oak panels were glued up from solid boards, milled to a Roman Ogee pattern, relieved on the back, and then I rounded over the milled lip on the face of the Ogee pattern to produce the final shape. |
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The cabinet boxes are birch as are the adjustable shelves. I made the face frames from red oak. The shelf nosing is padouk. The doors swing on European style hinges.
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The interior of the cabinets, including the shelves, are finished in gloss varnish applied over a lacquer primer coat. The face frames and doors are oil rubbed. |
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In case you were wondering what the dark spots on the inner stiles of the upper doors were, here's a close up. They are inch and a half square pieces of malachite a decorative stone sometimes used in jewlery. I cut them with my diamond tile saw and polished them with a buffing wheel. They are inlaid flush. As with the wood grain, I'm afraid these pictures fail to show the stone's pretty color and grain. |
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The light box at the top houses three recessed low voltage halogen lights. The entire box slides out on rails for access to the wiring and transformer. |