This is one of the first things John did in walnut. I think that we got the idea from the magazine Early American Life. Although it's hard to see in the picture, this is actually a corner cupboard and it is mounted on a corner of the living room wall.
This is the TV stand (sorry for the flash reflection). The drawers on the bottom are big enough and deep enough to hold our DVDs and CDs. The upper portion of the cabinet is supposed to have doors, but we kind of like it without.
The coffee table. I had seen a similar design at Boston Interiors, but the wood was not right. I decided to design my own and my wonderful husband built it for me out of walnut. You will notice that the second shelf is a slightly different color. That's because the shelves are made of walnut plywood and the drawers and carcass are made of solid walnut. Once we realized that the stain on the plywood was giving different results than the solid walnut, we visited our friends at Willmott's in Middleboro who expertly matched the stain. They did a fabulous job and that's why the top shelf matches the door fronts. Big shout out to everyone at Wilmott's. This is not the first time they have helped us match a stain in the house. We lived in our house for about 15 years before they created a stain that matched the existing woodwork in our house. That sort of thing is priceless.
