More pictures from clients. This one comes from a client near Chicago, Illinois. It's a wood countertop, or bar top, made from reclaimed white oak. It features a "live" edge full of character. The edge is particularly nice because it has lots of worm trails on it as well the...
We get the question fairly regularly, "What is patina?" Patina is the word for the great colors on the surface of the wood (and metal for that matter) that develop over time. There's generally not a lot of ways to fake it well. It's something real that develops over time....
Spectacular. That's how I'd describe this Minnesota sun room. It's always nice to receive pictures from our clients. This room has a great floor made of old barnwood siding with the red paint side up. It was carefully hand sanded prior to install -- removing the gray, leaving a bit...
Ah yes. It's Valentine's Week - the week of love and romance. In our barn endeavors, we seem to run into a few moments of shared love. A fortuitous heart shaped knot lends itself to the penknife etchings of Lance loves Robin. A moment in time preserved in wood. As...
What a great old barn for sale! This little gem is an 1881 Italianate 3-story, Octogon Bank Barn located in Hudson, OH. It boasts about 8500 square feet over 3 floors. As currently finished, the floors are 2760 SF, 2964SF, and 2804SF. Each side of the octagon is 24 feet;...
What a thing of beauty! A 4-foot by 11-foot white oak harvest table. This one will seat about 14 people comfortably at your next holiday party. (This table is heavy enough, those 14 people could probably dance on it too). For the tabletop, we started out with 12x12x23 foot hand...
What a great project! Back in September, a gentleman and hobbyist woodworker came to our shop to mill some reclaimed wood into flooring. After pulling the old white pine from the kiln, we went pretty much ran full circle together - denailing a bit, ripping the wood straight, and the...
We just cut out a 7 foot section out of a 6x8 white oak beam today. The beam was incredibly tight white oak with great patina, but I digress. The section was scarf joint. When the old barn builders needed and extra long span of wood (something more than 20...
While it's all tinned up on the outside, take a peak on the inside and you'll see why we're excited. It's an 18x26 log building is made of full-span hand-hewn yellow elm. There's logs in the place that are 7 inches x 18 inches and 26 feet long. This is another...
There's just something about these tables that drives the impulse to touch and feel. If you see it; you'll want to touch it. (kinda like at the museum, but here you can get away with it.) I'm not sure if it's the genuine authenticity, the history, or just the look,...
