This was a beautiful cherry Shaker dining table we built during the Summer of 1998. You will notice that the Windsor chairs are darker than the table. Traditionally Windsor chairs are constructed from three types of wood; Ash, Pine, and Maple. These chairs were stained to match how the cherry table will look in one year. Because cherry oxidizes when exposed to sunlight and oxygen, we stained the chairs to look like the aged cherry. The table by now matches the color of the chairs.