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I spent some more time fooling around with different things in sketchup and I just couldn’t get anything to look ‘right’ to me. I browsed google images to see if I could figure out which aspect was off and I think it’s the leg thickness. I was in the ballpark of 2.25″-2.5″ thickness on all my designs which would taper down to somewhere between 1 to 1.5″ at the bottom. The only design this looked OK in was the taper on the inside two sides of each leg. If I only tapered the 1 face that was on the longer side of the table or even the outside two faces the legs just seemed to look backwards.
My conclusion from my image searches was that my legs were just too big for this size of a table (might have been fine if I was going for the overall bulky look or a big taper on all 4 faces but I was hoping to stay away from that). I did a few designs where the legs have a max size of 1.5×1.5 and taper down to 1″ on the inside face. That’s .5″ over about 25 inches of leg so just a really slight taper.
I also just finished the bench stool project and I can’t get the design aspect of the arc on the apron out of my head so that guided me to what I have in the picture I think I’m going to go with. Also in PS’s blog post from today where he shows a photo of the two side tables (i think?) holding up the wall hanging tool cabinet with the same arc on the apron. The legs look like the same design as the bench stool and I just love that look. You saw glimpses of those small tables in the project series and I kept catching myself admiring them even though they look so simple. I don’t know what it is about them that I like so much I just can’t explain it. Anyway I’m going to get started and will hopefully post photos along the way probably in a new thread (except I always forget to stop and take a few while I’m working).
Thanks again for your suggestions I’m going to need more in the future I’m sure.