Dining Room

My main contribution to this room is this side board and the mirror above it.  When we were designing the house, I asked Perry Bush to create a notch to accommodate a built-in sideboard.  The door design came from the commonly used Arts and Crafts exterior windows that used a 3 over 1 pane.  When choosing trim stains, I chose Minwax Ipswich Pine 221 because it gave the tone and color that we wanted on both plain sawn oak as well as quarter sawn oak.  This stain was used on all of the trim, wood windows and doors as well as the built ins and furniture I made for the house. The cabinets were finished with wipe on oil-based polyurethane and the trim and doors were finished with brush on oil-based polyurethane.  The lesson I learned here was to test a number of stains and finishes on samples of the wood you are going to use to make sure the end result will be what you want.  The hardware on the cabinets is Stickley hardware that I purchased at Rockler.com.  I will comment that there is less expensive hardware than Stickley that also gives an authentic look.  I will show that hardware on a free-standing sideboard that I built.