Randy Bonella
09-05-2018, 12:28 PM
I haven't posted in a long while but I Just delivered my first commissioned heirloom piece of furniture. My client was thrilled with the results and I couldn't be happier with the outcome and her response.
My client collected the tiles from trips that she has taken with her family over the years. The two round ones are pictures of their cabin in the Sierra's on ceramic coasters. She asked me more than a year ago if I could build a table for her and put the tiles on it. I said sure, thinking it would be a simple table with grouted top surface for the tiles. Well fast forward a year when my real job slowed to where I could do this, I meet with her to get started and she indicates that she wants an heirloom piece of furniture that she can pass along to her kids, yikes, no pressure there :) She pretty much left it up to me for the design.
The coffee table is an arts and crafts style with some Greene & Greene inspirations. The primary wood is cherry. I used black walnut for the accents: pins, keys and inlays. The grid is curly maple. All joints are draw-bored mortise and tenon. The top is a double layer design with a floating plywood base to support the tiles and move a little with humidity changes. I used silicon adhesive to set the tiles also for expansion and contraction Enjoy p.s. the video was taken in my living room and I told my wife that if my client didn't want it we could keep it. Matches our furniture :)
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https://youtu.be/DgTWqd9O8aY
My client collected the tiles from trips that she has taken with her family over the years. The two round ones are pictures of their cabin in the Sierra's on ceramic coasters. She asked me more than a year ago if I could build a table for her and put the tiles on it. I said sure, thinking it would be a simple table with grouted top surface for the tiles. Well fast forward a year when my real job slowed to where I could do this, I meet with her to get started and she indicates that she wants an heirloom piece of furniture that she can pass along to her kids, yikes, no pressure there :) She pretty much left it up to me for the design.
The coffee table is an arts and crafts style with some Greene & Greene inspirations. The primary wood is cherry. I used black walnut for the accents: pins, keys and inlays. The grid is curly maple. All joints are draw-bored mortise and tenon. The top is a double layer design with a floating plywood base to support the tiles and move a little with humidity changes. I used silicon adhesive to set the tiles also for expansion and contraction Enjoy p.s. the video was taken in my living room and I told my wife that if my client didn't want it we could keep it. Matches our furniture :)
392856
https://youtu.be/DgTWqd9O8aY