Horizontal or Vertical

   I don't know why I feel the urge to write down what I am doing in life, but for some reason I do. I've been keeping a journal since I was 10 years old. I work alone most of the time and enjoy figuring out how to accomplished woodworking tasks. All of my projects are custom and I rarely use the same kind of material. Sometimes its plywood and store bought lumber already planed and jointed, other times its material from a stock pile of lumber salvaged from old wooden gates or feeding troughs, or maybe some painted siding from an historic building.
     My current project is a bathroom cabinet made from maple milled on the land the house is sitting on.  I used most of the wood already on the kitchen, vanity cabinets, the breakfast nook and the window seat. Now I am picking through the remains. Mostly 2 inch slabs that are bowed, twisted, checked, warped... you name it, these are the culls from the other projects.
    I had some left over panels and offcuts that were long enough to use if they were horizontal, I intended to have vertical panels. I made the panels and dadoed the frame to find that I was about 2 boards shy. I spaced the boards to see if that looked good, I slid them together, I tried to randomize the colors so there was no pattern. I didn't like any of them.  I don't know if it's the different colors of wood or that they are side-ways instead of up and down. It's been probably two weeks now and I need to gat back on it. Temperature in the shop is in the low 40's so that makes it hard to get motivated to work in there.
   Here is a link to the Mattole Craftsmen Flickr site for this project.