color/finish matching - with pic

[George Carion]

I'm making a desk to match the piece below for my daughter's bedroom. I need to get the colors right. It's hard maple and probably dyed the 2 different colors. One is sort of cranberry and the other is near what most refer to as "country pine".

How would you go about selecting/mixing the appropriate dyes to get those colors? Also, can anyone guess at which finish process was used? The pic is of an armoire made by Ethan Allen.

Thanks!

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=74807&d=1194474243

[Jamie Buxton]

You'll spend far more time trying to match the colors than you will to construct the piece. Do yourself a favor and don't try. Make the new piece something related, but not "matching".

[Steve Schoene]

I'll second Jamie's suggestion. You are unlikely to get an exact match even if Ethan Allen still carried the exact in colors with precisely the same name.

[Jim Becker]

And we have a "third".........