Doors to the Den

You have seen a variety of doors we made for our homes and for others that liked our work.  There will be more shown in the posts that follow,but I'll mix in a variety of subjects so that the "Door Show" doesn't get tiresome.  For this post I will show you a double door set we made for some of our Oro Valley friends.

These doors are a rustic design using a variety of local desert woods.  The boards running diagonally in the bottom portion of both doors are large saguaro ribs, sliced to fit flat on the central backing board. The patterns of wood are similar on both doors and repeated on both front and back of each door.

The next two layers of wood design shown above the large saguaro ribs are cross sectional slices of  small saguaro ribs, a slices across a saguaro arm showing the ribs in tack, and various size slices of the cholla cactus inner skeleton.  Tiles of cactus wood are placed around the slice of saguaro arm to complement its unique design.

Lastly, in the uppermost spaces, strips and segments of desert wood are used to create further varied textures.  The two primary woods used in these doors are Saguaro and Cholla. shown below are photos of these plants.

                                       Saguaro



















                                       Cholla

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