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   willy | Jan 31, 2005 07:35pm | #1

   If you have access to "Home Furniture", a magazine now out of print, check the January 1997, issue # 9 ,  page 58 for an armoire built by Norm Larson of Wyoming.  A beautiful piece, I'm using as a model for an armoire I'm building.

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   DustinThomps | Jan 31, 2005 09:47pm | #2

   bump

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   DustinThomps | Feb 01, 2005 03:42pm | #3

   One more bump then I'll let it die.  If anyone has any pictures of any work similar to this, maybe even different species of woods, I would love to see them.  Thanks again.

   Dustin

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   Artyone | Feb 02, 2005 12:34am | #4

   Dustin,

   Check out the photo in Gallery...http://forums.taunton.com/tp-knots/messages/?msg=21494.1

   BTW, if anyone has any photos or links to kitchens made out of curly or highly figured maple, please forward.  I'm planning on making kitchen cabinets out of curly maple but am concerned that all the "figure" will be too much or over powering to the eye.  Looking for photo examples to confirm or calm my fear.

   Thanks!

   Arty

    

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   Rich14 | Feb 02, 2005 12:59am | #5

   Arty,

   My wife and I are designing our kitchen remodel. All maple. The cabinets are frame and panel Eurostyle. We had exactly your concern that birdseye or curly maple panels would be overpowering.

   We've done several mock-ups and 'overpowering' is certainly the right word. Even when we reduced the total wood panel area by redisigning to include a lot of glass fronts curly was too much. The floors are maple and everything is very blonde. Our kitchen is "average" size.

   Perhaps in a large kitchen where there is a lot more of the plain wood to complement the highly figured panels it might work, but not in ours. This is a very subjective thing, and others might look at the design with all figured panels and really like it.

   Rich

   Edited 2/1/2005 5:00 pm ET by Rich14

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   Artyone | Feb 02, 2005 09:10am | #7

   Sorry Dustin, not trying to hijack your thread. At least it gets bumped up to the top for you :)Rich,Since you didn't like all the figured maple, what wood species did you decide on? My kitchen remodel is L shaped with an island. My cabinet doors will also be frame and panel but Shaker style. I really have my heart set on curly maple, but don't want to be sorry later. I guess now I'll plan to use alot of glass panels in the upper cabinets to reduce the amount of figured wood, and when not using glass I'll use plain unfigured maple, most likely a ply panel. I guess now I'm worried about the base cabinets and island since I don't want to use glass panels down low (have two young boys). I really need to find a photo or example to see if I'll like it. One thing in my favor is that the floor will be linoleum in a color contrasting the maple.Another consideration is to use maple that isn't so highly figured?Doug,
   Thanks for mentioning that. I now remember I was in a company lobby that had alot of curly maple cabinets and desks. Now I just need to remember the company and go check it out.Arty

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   Rich14 | Feb 02, 2005 09:17am | #8

   Arty,We're just using a less figured maple for the panels. The patterns of the frames, their shadows and reveals add enough visual pattern. Since everything (floors, cabinets) is maple (except glass) it has a calm, formal look. There is a thin ebony trim around each panel inside the frames. I'll post pictures, but it will be many months from now.Rich

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   DougF | Feb 03, 2005 01:55am | #12

   Arty,

   One idea: when I remodeled our home in New Mexico I build the counter based upper cabinets boxes in melamine, the shaker-style frames in white maple and the panels were art glass.  The upper cabinet over the peninsula counter has doors and glass on both sides for a "see-through" affect.  The pantry/ refrigerator side wall with the floor to ceiling cabinets were were all white maple frame and panel.  The base counter cabinets were pigmented lacquer in forest green.  I then made a crown molding that incorporated the maple with a 1" width band in the green.  In the eating area I made the built-in side board in maple frame and panel the uppers in maple and art glass.   

   One idea.

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   DougF | Feb 02, 2005 01:01am | #6

   Artyone,

   One of our client law firms has a board room of walls and cabinets of curly maple and it is a visual disaster.  The maple needs contrast when working with expansive coverage.  I recently made a bed using plain cherry panels framed with birds-eye maple rails and stiles simply to be different from the traditional plaim cherry and figure maple panels.   

   Doug

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   Artyone | Feb 02, 2005 09:29am | #9

   Ooops, wrong link above. Here's the correct one...
   http://forums.taunton.com/tp-knots/messages?msg=21378.1Arty

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   DustinThomps | Feb 02, 2005 02:43pm | #10

   Thanks for the responses everyone.  It may well work out to be too overwhelming, I am still not sure yet.  That sideboard pic is definitely beautiful, though.  Thanks for posting that, artyone.  I'll let you know if I come across anything else.  Thanks again, everyone.

   Dustin

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   jmc | Feb 03, 2005 12:20am | #11

   http://forums.taunton.com/n/mb/at.asp?webtag=tp-knots&guid=3E17A855-0218-4254-BE2A-0FC5A8594CAE&frames=no

    

   Try this one. I thought it was much more restrained in overall appearance.

   John

   
   

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   Edited 2/2/2005 4:23 pm ET by jmc