That's cool. How'd you do that? Do you have a Wacom Pad or something. I want to get one of those.
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How about the best of both worlds: stain it AND have colors. There are colored stains that you can get colors besides wood tones.

Aqua. I'd try a different pattern though. How about painting the top and bottom row one color, and the middle row the other?

I like the aqua, but if Tom doesn't, then you could do red & light grey

Oooo... That would be sweet! :snap:

oooh, yeah, alternating rows might look cool, perhaps even better than the neat checkerboard look.


No one will shun you if you go for paint. It's certainly gobs less work, and would end up "brighter" than even colored stain.


I still recommend you spend countless man hours stripping and re-staining it. It's a cool piece worth tons of (your, not my) effort. Heheh!

another option is veneers. I know you said youre not looking to do natural or stains, but there are indeed other options beyond paint

http://www.oakwoodveneer.com/

be sure and check out 'purpleheart'

I say go for LoT colors: blue, blue and blue.

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Purpleheart gets pretty dark - close to black - after a while.