Five weeks in and I’m only one week behind. At this rate, I’ll be caught up and finished by late March – 2011. Not bad for a one year commitment! On to this week’s idea…
This week I come before you to present a coffee table:
The table is mostly two-toned, with the same wood used for the inner square and the trim. The inner square is lined by a herringbone inlay, which is composed of neither of the two woods found elsewhere on the table. The legs and crossbars also mimic the two-toned style, although I haven’t decided which part I want light or dark. The lighter trim is bullnosed to reduce possible sharp edges on the sides (it’s amazing what details you think of when you have a mobile child exploring the house).
I first drew this up with the center circle as just plain wood, but the more I think about it, the more I want to put some type of inlayed design in that center area. I’ve included one possible design (bottom, right) composed of spiraling concentric squares of alternating woods.
The biggest thing I like about this design is that I had a bit of an epiphany when drawing the 3D model of it. I have realized why my perspective drawings are so top heavy (and knowing is half the battle), but I’m not sure how to work through changing that. I also figured out how to calculate ceratin angles after I’ve draw the reference line with the skewed perspective. I even had to break out the happy dance after these realizations!
I have a couple of other designs that I’ve started flushing out, so hopefully I’ll be able to catch up over this weekend and get back on track. To see what others are designing around the web, make sure to check out the Furniture Design blog.
Steve, that rocks man! All the angles are really working for me. This is a nice looking table. The only thing I would work on is the braces, they look slightly chunky to me.
Keep it up!
Yeah, the whole leg assmebly feels fat in the 3D drawing, probably because I drew the table top too skinny. I could go with the cross braces being 1/2 the width of the legs, centered on them to lighten up the undercarriage.
Very cool design, Steve. I like the ‘geometric’ look. Nice angles and patterns. I agree that the cross braces look a little on the heavy side, but not too bad. Great job!