Do you think I can make modern furniture?
When I look at modern furnitures they look so simple like a box or some piece of board, but it is so expensive. Do you think I can make a box and stain finish myself and say a modern furniture? Or is their more to modern furniture than just a box.
No I am not tying to sell. I wanted to put them in my house. But I was too expensive.
Making modern furniture covers a lot of ground. The most important thing to remember about the design and manufacture of modern furniture is it all about the geometry . . . . . Both in appearance and construction. Whether you can make it can only be know by you. Some people think it is easy than making a styles like Victorian or Georgian, because its so much simpler in appearance, but just the opposite is true. All you have to work with, are the lines of design and the joinery as embellishment, if something isn’t appropriate or correct, there are no curly-ques to cover for it. It just wood, joints and you . . ..
Good Luck.
January 20th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
my uncle makes modern furniture
http://www.cool-colors.com
and he has a hard time selling sometimes
so unless you have that kind of talent and creativity in the brain, nahhhh. wont sell.
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January 20th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
You have to ask yourself this, not us. I am a retired contractor/carpenter and, have 47 years of school, work and experience behind me. When I retired I built a wood-working shop in my basement.
I have a wood lathe, drill press, several types of sanders I built myself, specialty tools like biscuit saws and plunge routers along with everything you could think of for wood working.
I make furniture, Large turn of the century Victorian homes and, turn them into bird houses. If it can be made of wood, I can make it.
You can’t create this type of objects wishing for it, you have to have the knowledge, lots of math, plans, money for material, etc.
I can say "Good luck"
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retired contractor
January 20th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Making modern furniture covers a lot of ground. The most important thing to remember about the design and manufacture of modern furniture is it all about the geometry . . . . . Both in appearance and construction. Whether you can make it can only be know by you. Some people think it is easy than making a styles like Victorian or Georgian, because its so much simpler in appearance, but just the opposite is true. All you have to work with, are the lines of design and the joinery as embellishment, if something isn’t appropriate or correct, there are no curly-ques to cover for it. It just wood, joints and you . . ..
Good Luck.
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January 20th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
If you need to ask, I think the answer would be know.
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January 20th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
It depends upon your skill, your desire to learn, what tools you have (or will get), and your standards of "good"
I have seen some dreadful things that people are proud of and people who are not satisfied, no matter what you do.
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Here’s a free e-book that might give you an idea of what you’re getting in to:
http://www.popularwoodworking.com/icandothat
January 20th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Yes, i think you can make it.Since your doing it for yourself just find a design you like and copy it.You can google modern furniture, find the piece you like,they usually give the size of each piece,use that to make what you want.
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