How different finishes can modernize furniture

When making a farmhouse table, there are several design issues that have to be taken into account. The first issue is whether to make traditional turned legs or go for the more modern shaker style. It may not sound like much of a conundrum but it is a very important choice when people come to purchase a table.

Square legs are typical of shaker style,modern Scandinavian straight lines, encourage this type of furniture,it lends itself this style, to being hand painted in the new range of colors that are available. The colors from specialist paint manufacturers, are more often Victorian colors,or at least the type of subtle colors we think Victorian people used.

Shades of green are a surprising popular choice of color, green is not too often used as a main color in design,however these subtle colors,tend to bypass expectations,and we end up in the spectrum,of where green meets blue,duck egg blue,is an example is it blue or is it green. We actually use a green shade when asked to do duck egg colors,and everyone always says how nice,that is exactly the right color I wanted.

Turned legs by contrast are the traditional look,everyone knows and expects it, the old kitchen table, that grandma had always had turned legs. The rest of the kitchen furniture matched it, the chairs were spindle, or slat back, maybe even fiddle back, all with nice turned legs.

By contrast the shaker style tables demand a shaker chair , or Amish chair , possibly Breton style chair, with straight legs and very gentle curves. These chairs again look fantastic painted, this time they do look best with a more definite blue color.

Styles do come and go, as do fads of color schemes, personally, I do like an old farmhouse table, waxed and even if new made to look like it is old , and been there since grandma rolled out the flour on it. that traditional look, with a welsh dresser , displaying all the plates with color and refinery, seemed to somehow always say . you are welcome.

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