Mission Dining Furniture

Baylor Chapman has a sense of repurpose

In many ways, the choices that Chapman makes with foliage are second nature. It's not simply because as the owner of Lila B. Design (named for her grandmother and great-grandmother), she isn't limited to premixed supermarket bouquets and hardware store houseplants. It's Chapman's knack for knowing how some of the most unobvious of nature's greens can be integrated as decorative objects throughout her airy Mission District studio.

"I try to connect food with flowers," says Chapman. "Something that will come in useful later." No matter the level of whimsy, she manages to give her peculiar-meets-practical handmade creations an air of organic sophistication. They could include a simple gathering of cheery persimmons or an abstract piece of ginger root displayed among framed photos.

Typically, it means utilizing unpredictable groupings or bits and pieces others would cast off as waste. Mini watermelons on a crisping vine, displayed over a stack of books. Or a dainty strawberry vine draped along a television console. Dogwood, cotton or fig branches, as well as unruly piles of cedar cones, carefully arranged horse chestnuts and acorns yet to pop from their pods all have promise.

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Mission stylye dining table - by RogerHJR | LumberJocks.com ...

White oak is a better lumber choice for outside applications, since water doesn’t travel though the closed tubes as rapidly.

With Quartersawn you’ll also have larger rays with the White, rift is really a better look for Red where you get giant long grain patterns, espeically beautiful on a long tabletop.

Another major factor is staining, Red Oak is the champ when it comes to accepting stain, White Oak isn’t a pain like Maple, but it will take a stain significantly slower and have a higher chance of blotching.

My buddy Eric turned me onto the book NathanAllen is referring to above awhile ago. We’ve both made the tabouret table. It’s a very simple set of designs that beg for deep, rich finishes. I bought my copy of the book at the Gamble House bookstore. Good stuff… If you use any of the above designs, I recommend modifying the library table.

My girlfriend just reminded me that her Grandpa offered me that book from his ancient library years ago.

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