Wall skins: top layer from reclaimed beams
Repurpose real wood – salvaged or reclaimed.
We want everyone to repurpose real wood. With that in mind, please enjoy this video which cost us $75.00 six years ago, We are “thrifty” like most of our customers, but the content is good. Salvaged is ‘saved’, reclaimed is repurposed; and not the kind of repurposing we are talking about with our folk art. The video should clear it up and if you are shopping for reclaimed heart pine this is very important because of the massive priced ranges you will find.
Do not confuse antique with antiqued
Distressing is a fashionable design style and decorative art form that has been getting increasingly popular both among fashion and interior designers. In its simplest form, distressing a wood floor is about adding age. And we call the final product antiqued, with a d. Not to be confused with antique with has the actual age. If you antique a floor, it has been ‘antiqued’ using certain finish techniques. An antique reclaimed floor is entirely different category and price.
Repurposing salvaged cabinet doors
We want everyone to find something made of real wood or a piece of real wood, and repurpose it for something. It does not require anything other than imagination and the a true understand of what repurposing real wood could mean for our planet. What if all this single use disposal furniture we buy were replaced with real wood. Suddenly we have a family heirloom, an asset for some, that we pass down over generations instead of future landfill content.
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At our house real wood does not get thrown away- it is repurposed.
Repurposed sometimes means that I burn it, spreading the ashes around specific plants and grass. But most of the time, I make stuff. Most of you will not appreciate the stuff, but just appreciate the repurposing of 250 year old wood:)/.
