Furniture Books

If you like gardens and nature you will enjoy this book. My girl friend gave it to me and now I am buying a copy for a friend. I have already made one bench from ideas in the book. A must have for the creative gardener

Great ideas and tips with 144 pages of color photos and tinted drawings.
The cover is not my favorite example of the variety of styles of natural
wood applications illustrated inside.

Sam is very generous in his shaing of some of his thoughts and techniques on working with wood.

Though few of us woodworkers will ever manage to produce pieces with the same level of design, structural and practical integrity that Sam has done, it is still inspiring to see how he works, and what can be done.

As a long term hobby woodworker, this is the type of DVD that you can watch every few years and learn new technques from as your own understanding and experience increase.

The strongest feeling I had after watching this DVD was one of gratitude and appreciation to Sam and Taunton Press for making this available.

Highly recommend for anyone who has an interest in working with wood, or as a gift for any woodworker.

I love Scandinavian architecture and have read every book I can find on the subject. As does this book, the best of them have excellent photography. Scandinavian Country also has excellent writing. It is a history of each Scandinavian countries decorating style. The author devotes a section of the book to each of the four Scandinavian countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland) decorating styles.

For example the author tells how the Finnish have a very simple, rustic decorating style, while the Swedish have a much more ornate style. The Fins like secluded living. The Norwegians are excellent wookworkers, which they use to advantage in all of houselhold funishings and kitchen utensils. Of all the Scandinavian countries Norway has been the most resistant to changing their traditional decorating style. Denmark gives us Danish modern furniture, which I love. Danish modern features natural fabrics and woods, eloquent yet simple design and practicality, which make it a standout. Our Danish modern dining room table has the extension boards built right into it. Leave it to the Scandinavians to think of this.

This book is truely a gem. The photos are stunning. This book will tell you step-by-step how some of the worlds most beautiful miniatures are made. This book should be owned by all miniature enthusists. Mrs. Nisbett has selected some of the BEST miniature artists in England, it tells all about them and their wonderful masterpieces. This book will inspire all craftsmen. This book will tell you all about there techniques, what materials they use and how the use them to accieve these masterworks.

The ideas included in this book were fun and useful, and all presented in a lovely way, with pictures taken in gardens so I could see what I might aspire to. Useful and beautiful.

bunch of clear pics,interesting info about each piece.
even if you not particular of shaker craftsmanship or design,,,youll like this book.

if you have even a little interest in woodworking,but arent partial to shaker design,i bet you could spot 10 pics of items in this book youd want to try n build.
if you work with wood,youll want this tome. [always wanted to use that word.] ;-)

As an amature woodworker interested in plans and methods for building Shaker style furniture, I found this book very informative. It includes precise instructions for building two Shaker style chairs, a bench, three tables, a pie safe, a clock, a step stool, oval boxes and a pegboard. It also includes directions for making jigs to simplify the the construction of several of the projects. The jig for routing dovetails for a candlestand collumn while it is still on the lathe was shown in greater detail than I have seen before. The diagrams and illustrated step-by-step instrctions are easy to understand and show construction details that mere measured drawings do not. For instance, the methods for hanging a drawer and attaching a table top were especially interesting to me since they were a little different than what I commonly see. This is a book written for amature woodworks like myself who appreciate well documented plans for interesting and usefull pieces of furniture.

A detailed book of work shop projects to built in your shop at home,or in a cabinet shop by a pro. If you like to build cabinets or country furniture this is an excellent book for you. I made some of these pieces,and they turned out great. PA

I am planing to build up a shop from scrath. This book was a nice acquisition in order to give ideas for what to build.
The book has nice pictures it is filled with several different well explained furniture plans (with all steps to build them and also several view points fro those who have hard time figuring what to do with a plan). Some are really interesting to have specially if you don't have a big shop. Some nice ideas are given in order to make your shop furniture movable, including (as the picture in the cover) heavy machinery like planers and circular saws.
However, be aware that this is a how-to book and it does not discuss shop plans or other stuff like this... it is focused in building things.
One of the top instructions was how to make the workbench top from hardwood strips... very useful.
Overall: a very nice book. It is well worth the money I spent on it.