Our reclaimed barnwood collection is handmade. Every board handpicked.
Using only the finest, hand-selected reclaimed lumber, our dining room collection brings new definition to rustic elegance. All impressive head turners. Everything about this dining collection speaks of fine craftsmanship, exceptional rustic detailing and one-of-a-kind rescued historical materials.
Reclaimed wood is pretty special to most of us when we come in contact with it. You know it used to be something old. Maybe an old barn wall, floor or ceiling. Maybe the exterior of chicken coop (a big one) or the floor boards from an old tractor repair depot.
Fact is, the builders had no idea these old buildings would become such a sough after commodity, after all, they were simply surviving and do what made sense to them at the time. Over a hundred years ago, these farmers, ranchers and homesteaders all carefully utilized what they had on their land to build with. No home depots here! The houses were smaller, lots of hand work and smaller places are easier to heat. Seems like families sometimes do best in smaller places keeping them close (I know I do).
The lumber was derived from the trees on the land, a lot of these were old growth. They would fall the trees, mill them on site. This onsite milling is where the magic happened. Back then a 2×4 was 2″ by 4″. It was cut to size and used raw, rough and onsite. No wood wasted here. The timber was cut into all different, normally whole dimensions. A 4×4 was actually 4″ by 4″. The milling process was strictly to cut to size and use the timber. It didn’t have to be pretty and it wasn’t. Not to mention the slivers along the way!
Fast forward to today, we are lucky enough get this reclaimed barnwood in large bundles, usually on a flatbed or in a pickup bed and occasionally we will go out a get it ourselves. Mostly there are people who have carved out a bit of a business in just reclaiming these old barnwood building. Dismantling them board by board and bringing them to us to reclaim them into the beautiful furniture we offer.
The old reclaimed wood has the original saw marks from the large sawmills used back then, they didn’t mill it down to the clean smaller dimensional wood we get today. As mentioned above, these were true dimensions.
Saw marks, nail holes, bolts and buckshot all accompany this amazing wood. We tend to it all before we can even think of using it to build the reclaimed wood furniture you see on this sight. Removing nails, spikes, dirt, rock and whatever else was thrown at it for the last 100 years or so. It’s also pretty hard on our machines too. We spend a lot of time sharpening, adjusting and calibrating our machines to keep up with the raw nature of this wood.
We do the minimal amount of milling to these boards to keep as much of the character as possible. We usually need to mill at least one to two sides of each piece to square it and make it fit squarely against another for legs and tables tops.
So, when you look at our collection of reclaimed wood, keep in mind it took a about a hundred years to get it to our back door, now it requires all the additional work we put into it to make it into new beautiful reclaimed wood furniture.
Our reclaimed barnwood collection is handmade. Every board handpicked.
Using only the finest, hand-selected reclaimed lumber, our dining room collection brings new definition to rustic elegance. All impressive head turners. Everything about this dining collection speaks of fine craftsmanship, exceptional rustic detailing and one-of-a-kind rescued historical materials.
Reclaimed wood is pretty special to most of us when we come in contact with it. You know it used to be something old. Maybe an old barn wall, floor or ceiling. Maybe the exterior of chicken coop (a big one) or the floor boards from an old tractor repair depot.
Fact is, the builders had no idea these old buildings would become such a sough after commodity, after all, they were simply surviving and do what made sense to them at the time. Over a hundred years ago, these farmers, ranchers and homesteaders all carefully utilized what they had on their land to build with. No home depots here! The houses were smaller, lots of hand work and smaller places are easier to heat. Seems like families sometimes do best in smaller places keeping them close (I know I do).
The lumber was derived from the trees on the land, a lot of these were old growth. They would fall the trees, mill them on site. This onsite milling is where the magic happened. Back then a 2×4 was 2″ by 4″. It was cut to size and used raw, rough and onsite. No wood wasted here. The timber was cut into all different, normally whole dimensions. A 4×4 was actually 4″ by 4″. The milling process was strictly to cut to size and use the timber. It didn’t have to be pretty and it wasn’t. Not to mention the slivers along the way!
Fast forward to today, we are lucky enough get this reclaimed barnwood in large bundles, usually on a flatbed or in a pickup bed and occasionally we will go out a get it ourselves. Mostly there are people who have carved out a bit of a business in just reclaiming these old barnwood building. Dismantling them board by board and bringing them to us to reclaim them into the beautiful furniture we offer.
The old reclaimed wood has the original saw marks from the large sawmills used back then, they didn’t mill it down to the clean smaller dimensional wood we get today. As mentioned above, these were true dimensions.
Saw marks, nail holes, bolts and buckshot all accompany this amazing wood. We tend to it all before we can even think of using it to build the reclaimed wood furniture you see on this sight. Removing nails, spikes, dirt, rock and whatever else was thrown at it for the last 100 years or so. It’s also pretty hard on our machines too. We spend a lot of time sharpening, adjusting and calibrating our machines to keep up with the raw nature of this wood.
We do the minimal amount of milling to these boards to keep as much of the character as possible. We usually need to mill at least one to two sides of each piece to square it and make it fit squarely against another for legs and tables tops.
So, when you look at our collection of reclaimed wood, keep in mind it took a about a hundred years to get it to our back door, now it requires all the additional work we put into it to make it into new beautiful reclaimed wood furniture.