Mike Lyon

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Tea Room Table and Chairs

October 25, 1998 By Mike Lyon

These are my first furniture designs. Built from old fir high-school bleachers I salvaged plus some used fir 2x4s from concrete forms, these went into the tea room of the Kansas City Shotokan Karate dojo. Padauk wood inlay was used in the five chairs and table top to fill the many holes and defects in the old […]

Filed Under: Furniture Tagged With: Benches, Bleachers, Chairs, Concrete Forms, Fir, Furniture Designs, Hanging On The Wall, Holes, Japanese Wood, Kansas City Shotokan, Mortise, Padauk Wood, Polyurethane, Shotokan Karate Dojo, Tea Room, Wood Accents, Wood Block Prints, Wood Inlay

Tiled Floor of vertical grain oak and padauk

July 25, 1998 By Mike Lyon

While building the dojo floor for the KC Shotokan Karate Club, we decided to leave an area for visitors and observers. We built benches along the windows, and I designed, built and laid this beautiful wood tile floor. First I measured the area, then designed the tile size (tiles had to be less than 4.5″ square so […]

Filed Under: Furniture Tagged With: Beams, Beautiful, Benches, Dark Reddish Brown, Exact Scale, Finished Floor, Observers, Orientation, Padauk, Polyurethane, Scale Drawing, Shotokan Karate Club, Square Feet, Square Tiles, Stripes, Stuff, Tile Floor, Tile Size, Vertical Grain, Wood Tile

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