Our design continues to take shape. To say it is awesome is an understatement. The bamboo is so sleek and the spacing between drawers and pullouts leaves a clean 1/8″ line that just runs around the kitchen. It is meticulous.
While Wayne is working on the Kitchen, I’ve been working on bringing my new poppy door to life. It was quite a process for me to decide on the staining approach even though I had been at this dance once before. I seriously considered the Sikkens product but in the end went with Minwax in the color of Gunstock. I’ll follow that up with Minwax Helmsman Spar Urethane for UV and weather protection. To say I love bringing this door to life is an understatement. There’s a feel in the carvings that is unexplainable. I’d like to share where my head’s at as I work with this truly amazing piece of art…
When I was doing the advanced Swahili course in Usa River Tanzania our education compound (MS-TCDC Training Center) was located at the foothills of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Each afternoon after class several of us would venture out for a long trek amongst amazing scenery and wildlife. Many times we’d see blue monkeys, colobus and a species that escapes me at the moment (loved to eat from the mango trees…and throw them at passers by). Anyway, one afternoon as we were heading back we came across some guys who were hand sawing planks of wood from a massive tree. It was amazing to see what these men were doing with so little. They had dug about a 6 feet wide by 4 feet deep trench whereby the tree lay across the trench. One guy was in the trench pulling a large hand saw down and another guy was above the trench pulling the saw up- back and forth these guys worked singing a work song as most workers do out in the fields or on laborious tasks…as I work I like to listen to contemporary music with numerous swahili songs thrown in the playlist.
What if my door started in the hands of men like these? What if I could meet those men and thank them for helping to create such beauty in my life? I think about the journey of the pieces and the people who helped make it happened. I’ll never really know if my enormously inventive mind is anywhere near reality but as I work on pulling it all together, I can’t help but wonder…and thank the people who are rarely seen but so important to our team.
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