I am starting the finish process of my guest bathroom.
SWMBO and I can not settle on how it should be done.
four choices..
all hard maple
All cherry
Cherry panels and hard maple rails and styles
or
hard maple panels with cherry rails and styles.
I do have available fiddle back maple to do the rails and styles in, but NO! I will not plane that down to make the panels out of it..
the fixtures are turn of the century pieces old fashioned pull chain toilet and French porclien cistern sink.. (floor is those little white octagons with burgundy diamonds)
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>SWMBO and I can not settle on how it should be done.
I'm SHOCKED! And after all you've shared about her, who woulda thought...
we're not in conflict about this, rather we cannot decide..
I think I tend to want to use cherry panels and fiddleback maple rails and styles but that isn't absolute.. I worry that the dark cherry will be too dark in that small of a room..
SWMBO also worries that there might be too much clash between woods..
We both seem to feel that hard maple completely is too bland and cherry is too dark.. yet we go back to those ideas frequently..
I think there's too much contrast. I'd do 98% of the job in one species and accents in the other, but not split the two between frames and panels. Personal taste.
Here's one way to come to an agreement:
Get some colored construction paper or poster board with the color as close as you can get it to the stock. Mock up the paneling and trim, full sized, each way, and tape it to the walls. Stand back. Evaluate.
Take two days.
Do it her way.<G>
I think I like the light panels with the dark trim, maybe because it follows the light field and dark accents of the floor.
What's the color scheme above the wainscotting or are you taking the panels to the ceiling?
Panels to the ceilings.. Maybe evan on the ceilings! and we've tried your idea, sorta.. I mean I ran some wood thru the planer and held it up and we both changed our minds a couple of times.. In cases like this my wife usually looks to me for advice and I'm stymied.. (I didn't run any fiddleback maple since that's in another pile and there are about 1500 bd.ft. on that pile before I get to it! )
Part of the problem is imagining the patina of cherry after it ages a bit. fresh off the planer it's very pink, nothing like it will eventuually be..
Since this is gonna be the first finished room in our house and it's a room I'm certain all of our guests will use it's been very difficult to decide..
I've been grinding this over for well over a month now and it's time.. No further delays!
Edited 4/24/2004 8:00 pm ET by frenchy
30 bucks for a can of good paint and your problem goes away.<G>
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Edited 4/24/2004 8:02 pm ET by Ralph Wicklund
Ralph, for less than the cost of a can of paint I can have true raised wood panels.. which would you do?
IMO, because the room is small I'd go with maple panels and cherry stiles and rails. Excellent combination. To me, nothing beats the 'two-tone' look. T R
excellant picture.. while that room is much larger than our guest bathroom, it does show excellant contrast between those two woods..
purty"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain
Beautiful work TR