Wine cabinet donation or other ideas

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I am donating a wine cabinet to a local black tie charity event for raising money at our hospitals NICU. The problem I have ran into is that another company (a trendy furniture store that sells fake rustic furniture with the sanded paint etc..) has donated a wine cabinet. I live in ND so the people here are very conservative and also trendy instead of timeless. what I was or still might build is a Dutch style wind cabinet with two double solid walnut doors out of 8/4. I will than carve the faces to have a simple design in them and polish with an oil finish. The legs and case will be made of quarter sawn beech and stained a very natural color.

My question is should I go for another wine cabinet donation or should I switch to something else. I cannot decide what else to donate as I don't want to donate a living room piece since it would only apply to certain people. I also only plan to spend $400-$800 on material so something medium sized as well.

Maybe I am over thinking the situation as well and should just stick with my idea.

PLEASE give ideas and thoughts. I thank you in advanced for any suggestions.
 
Unless you can find out what folks want and are prepared to bid up so your piece makes the most money for the hospital, just do what you originally intended. I suspect this is purely altruistic and not a marketing strategy so it doesn't make a lot of difference.
It's irrelevant what others are doing.
Tim
 
My thoughts, based on my own experience of how these things go, is that you may be disappointed in the amount obtained by your piece that will involve a lot of your time. Though to some extent as long as the NICU gets more money the amount for your cabinet doesn't matter ..... it still sort of matters.

As nice as the piece you will build may be ...... in order for it to grab a lot of value there will need to be several people that really want to own it. Everyone has different tastes in furniture, style, and design. I have seen pieces (new builds for the event , not antiques) that should be worth say 2k - 3k  go for about $500 at this type of event.

It is hard to design and build something that a lot of people will want to pay a lot of money for in an auction for charity type of situation. Maybe something that is more generally useful that requires less input on your end would ultimately garner the same result.

Seth
 
SRSemenza said:
My thoughts, based on my own experience of how these things go, is that you may be disappointed in the amount obtained by your piece that will involve a lot of your time.
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Seth:
As they say, "no good deed ever goes unpunished"  [tongue] The act of charity is much more important than any practical or  psychological affects (feelings) the giver may or may not receive.

SRSemenza said:
Maybe something that is more generally useful that requires less input on your end would ultimately garner the same result.
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Agreed, but sometimes you gotta do what you want to do, throwing caution and pragmatism to the wind...
Tim
 
Tim Raleigh said:
SRSemenza said:
My thoughts, based on my own experience of how these things go, is that you may be disappointed in the amount obtained by your piece that will involve a lot of your time.
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Seth:
As they say, "no good deed ever goes unpunished"  [tongue] The act of charity is much more important than any practical or  psychological affects (feelings) the giver may or may not receive.
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SRSemenza said:
My thoughts, based on my own experience of how these things go, is that you may be disappointed in the amount obtained by your piece that will involve a lot of your time. Though to some extent as long as the NICU gets more money the amount for your cabinet doesn't matter ..... it still sort of matters.
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Yes, pretty much what I meant in line two. The "it still sort of matters" part was intended to take into consideration that if a lot of work and or monetary input is involved, then it would be better to gain a larger (I.e.; more impactful) benefit for the charity rather than a smaller one for the same amount of input.

Tayler_mann said:
I am donating a wine cabinet to a local black tie charity event for raising money at our hospitals NICU. The problem I have ran into is that another company (a trendy furniture store that sells fake rustic furniture with the sanded paint etc..) has donated a wine cabinet. I live in ND so the people here are very conservative and also trendy instead of timeless. what I was or still might build is a Dutch style wind cabinet with two double solid walnut doors out of 8/4. I will than carve the faces to have a simple design in them and polish with an oil finish. The legs and case will be made of quarter sawn beech and stained a very natural color.

My question is should I go for another wine cabinet donation or should I switch to something else. I cannot decide what else to donate as I don't want to donate a living room piece since it would only apply to certain people. I also only plan to spend $400-$800 on material so something medium sized as well.

Maybe I am over thinking the situation as well and should just stick with my idea.

PLEASE give ideas and thoughts. I thank you in advanced for any suggestions.
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I am not attempting to rain on the OP's act of giving. Just responding as requested. It seems clear to me from the question that Tayler would like to make the best possible gift and is concerned that the situation has changed and may impact his plan. The act of giving holds true either way as a good thing.  [thumbs up]

[member=42383]Tayler_mann[/member]  I think it is great that you are doing this. I just want to be clear on that point.  And you should build and donate what you want. 

Seth
 
I also just realized that I am assuming this is for auction. Maybe it is for a door prize or raffle type give away?

Seth
 
No offense taken at all I am just trying to make sure I get he highest dollar value in the auction. So yes it is a auction. The nice thing about this event is it gets a large crowd of Dr.'s old and young. My hope is that there will be 3-5 people in a war for it and it will drive the price up to at least 3,000. If not though I have already excepted that more than most people are into buying something on the cheap and throwing it two years later when they repaint.

I am in Bismarck Mandan as well [member=23670]Jasonj888[/member].
 
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