Custom Bookcases

I'm getting tired of the bookcases. It's not the fact that the work seems to drag on. No the problem is far more insidious than that. The lady that I live with keeps coming in and wanting to change the design as I go along. Right now, she is not happy with the color of the bookcases. They are poplar with cherry stain on them. The reason why I am using that combination is that is what was used for the mouldings throughout the house. Today she decided that it is just not red enough.

When I go into the house, I see the mouldings as quite brown. She in turn points to a door made from some wood that I can't quite identify and says that she thought it would be this color. The color is truly redder than the mouldings, but it is not a color that I would be able to get with stain on poplar. What can I do? I will not work with sealer stain. I hate the stuff. I can never get it on evenly and when I do, it never looks like anything that I would be proud of. I guess I could try a paste stain.

The problem is that I have already remade a large portion of this project, and I am getting just a little tired of it. I now have the uprights ready to make a bookcase for my son and for my daugher. This is a product of the last design change. If there are too many more design changes, I think I will just donate the whole thing to my daughter. I'm sure that she would love it and probably be happy that I had made it for her. The other option would be to make a nice camp fire with it and relax by its glow.