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Very nice. People underestimate the value of using pine and paint/stain. Good stuff… :)
 

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A very nice project, but I'm equally intrigued by the paneled knotty pine door in the background…
 

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Good, looking piece you have there. I agree with Tom, I've used milk paint for a few projects and it looks great. Nice work!
 

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Thanks for the praise. I want to work with fancy woods, but for the immediate needs local pine + paint is hard to beat.

BaritoneWoods: All of our interior doors have that look. Our house is one antler chandelier away from being a hunting lodge.
 

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When you got'a build, you got'a build. Can't be worried about what you don't have and use what you do have and make the best of it.

Good job on this project. That milk paint job, looks terrific…great build…
 

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Looks nice on the outside! Can we see inside?
 

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Pay no attention to the actual contents.

During construction, I added supports for, and made all the shelves. The top pair of supports have a notch for a dowel across the width, and I sized it so hangers don't hit the back or front walls. For the first few years, when we stored my suits and my wife's long evening gowns in it, the shelves were stored on the floor.
 

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If you paint/finish the inside of the door so it is less likely to warp then I will comment "nice job"
Until then you just get "nice-
 

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No thanks, ohwoodeye. I'll settle for the lesser rating from you. :)

The whole "match the inside to the outside" is not a hard and fast rule. While there are some circumstances where it can help by balancing moisture exchange between the two sides of a board, it doesn't work for enclosed spaces like chests, armoires, etc. The battens have held the two-board door flat for 6 years now.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I haven't had many of the wood movement problems which I hear about for lower altitude, higher humidity places. Fewer mosquitos, too.
 
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