What style of furniture do you like to build?

Shaker!!

Rick, I enjoy Arts and Crafts style furniture. It has simple lines, pretty and straight forward joinery but it is something that I just happen to enjoy seeing and building. The joy of making all those m&t joints tends to wear off rather quickly though. :)

I also lump in mission and Shaker style furniture in here as well since I do not differentiate between them.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

Upscale Rustic if there is such a thing.

-- Behind the Bark is a lot of Heartwood----Charles, Centennial, CO

Durnik: how would you describe upscale rustic? I don’t believe I’m familiar with that style.

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Scott:
I’m like you. Not a lot of difference between the mission and Shaker. I meant mission instead of G&G.
I had a cranial flatulance for a moment. But G&G is nice…......... whatever !!

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wooden ones…

-- When in doubt - There is no doubt - Go the safer route.

I was waiting for an answer like that—you ain’t much help.

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Anything with the arts and crafts influence suits me fine. I love it all ,it’s just really well made, well designed, good honest furniture.Now the good news is you can mix and match designs to make your own designs I steal a little here ,and alittle there ,and make my own stuff but almost always with alittle help from the artistic movement. Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

Arts and Crafts, Stickley, shaker, take your pick, they all have simple clean lines and sturdy joints that will last a life time.

-- Roper - Master of sawdust-

My preference is the kind I make, got no clue what style any of it is. I see wood and make what it tells me is hiding inside it! Don’t matter what the item is, furniture, turnings, boxes, or whatever.

-- Dan-- Info for all @ http://www.hoistman.com

I have a strong love of the Greene & Greene style, traditional Asian architecture, Art Deco, Art Nouveu, Post Modern, Heywood Wakefield, Modern, Charles Rennie Macintosh, CFA Voysey, ...

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

I like Mid-Century Style and Contemporary. I try to pick simple and clean line pieces.

Greene & Greene
Arts & Crafts, Mission, Stickley
Shaker
Period

generally in that order but always Greene & Greene at the top

-- Sam

Generally Mission, Art & Crafts, Craftsman, Greene & Greene, Shaker…

My wife likes Greene & Greene,Arts & Crafts, Mission, and Stickley.
I like Shaker I love the clean lines.
I’m building something A&C for my wife for Christmas and have enough Cherry put away to make Norm’s Hall Table.

-- Only the Shadow knows....................

something I haven’t done before

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture maker, woodworking school, heirloomwoodshop.com

Something complicated. I like a challenge. If it starts off too simple, I’ll find a way to make it hard.
If it were too easy, anyone could do it. I’ve never been accused of using simple straight lines.

-- Kent Shepherd * The goal is-----More Tools!

Krenovian and KOLonian

-- ~ Inspiring those who inspire me ~

Early American, Primitive, Windsor Chairs,

-- Mark, www.mrhudon.com

Shaker and Arts and Crafts for the most part.

Shaker because it can run the gambit from almost primitive to simplified Victorian.

Arts and Crafts just because it’s fun to make and I like the lines.

As far as specifics, I like Shaker for end tables, hall tables, etc. Arts and Crafts for dining room stuff, but for beds and night stands, I like more experimental/modern/Eastern stuff as I can try it out in there and if it looks like drek, nobody else really sees it.

-- Steve, Webster Groves, MO

Is there a useful style? I make a few things that are just for lookin at but mostly i want it to be used, I think Papadan is right about the wood telling you what it wants to be, you can shape it to make what you want it to be, but the best things usually turn out when you get your ideas from the wood. OMG! I sound like my sister n law.

-- Duane,matt_megan@twlakes.net

Appalachian rustic.

-- Randy, Rustic Artisan, a family tradition. (No PM's - auto-deleted.) - "I am a seeker, not a follower."

I like the style where you cut the tenon and place it in the mortise and it fits. Whatever style it happens to be the one that I can make is the one I currently like… in my meager life as a woodworker. Right now whatever is pleasant to the eye and looks good without to many visible errors is what I’m into. Often that style ends up being Queen Anne Hillbilly.

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Jacobean (1600-1690)
William and Mary (1690-1725)
Queen Anne (1700-1755)
Georgian (1714-1760)
Chippendale (1750-1790)
Federal (1780-1820)
Sheraton (1780-1820)
American Empire (1800-1840)
Victorian (1840-1910)

Basically anything not 20th century.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.