Inspiration: Gorgeous Reclaimed Building Materials! Austin

Fans of vintage furniture can surely relate to loving vintage lumber and building supplies, too. With the gorgeous aged textures, one-of-a-kind patterns and interesting history, reclaimed building supplies are a great way to add interest and eco-friendly materials to your home project. And, if you’re worried vintage lumber might look too rustic, we’ve found a great local Austin resource that’s proving reclaimed wood can be modern and elegant…

Vintage Material Supply Company, located in East Austin, reclaims and then sells vintage timber and lumber. Consisting mostly of old-growth longleaf pine, sinker pine, sinker cypress, and native Texas timbers, their products are gorgeous, one-of-a-kind and eco-friendly! Their mission: "to salvage all grades of wood for adaptive reuse as new products for residential and commercial building applications. We strive to use 100 percent of all sound reclaimed material."

Along with selling gorgeous reclaimed lumber and timber, Vintage Material Supply Company also offers complete milling services like resawing, flooring, and custom architectural and historical millwork. They offer consulting services in vintage wood reclamation, and can help you track down hard to find historical or reclaimed items. You can see some of their handiwork in the popular Austin restaurant spot, Lamberts (which somehow exudes an equal amount of grace, elegance and rustic Texas charm).

Tell us about your experiences with vintage building supplies! What are your favorite projects using reclaimed lumber? What do you think of Lambert's gorgeous interiors? Let us know!

[Photo credit: Photos of Lambert's taken from the Vintage Material Supply Company website. ]

I'd kill for countertops made of reclaimed wood...

posted by bepsf on September 11th 2008 at 12:16pm
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If you are in Canada The Timeless Material Company does exactly the same thing.

posted by timeless on September 11th 2008 at 12:27pm
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There are some great local guys dealing in salvage wood, mostly old structural fir, some white oak. They mostly sell it as raw material, though they will also do some milling (including flooring.)
I will pull out their business card tomorrow and post their info.

The problem with these out-of-state companies is that they are charging exorbitant prices for the material, and then you have to deal with freight and its financial/environmental costs.

Also, I can help you with reclaimed wood countertops, no killing required.

posted by Jos on September 11th 2008 at 9:59pm
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Let's all go out to Lamberts! NOW! TONIGHT!
/best idea ever

posted by penuckle on September 12th 2008 at 10:26am
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How about using wood looking marble to do the similar decoration? It is going to be more durable.

I see a set of fabulous woodvein marble colors in the site:

http://www.amlinkmarble.com/imperial-woodvein.htm

posted by marblegranite on June 17th 2009 at 4:12pm
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Oh yeah, is that reclaimed marble? Cuz the wood is. So stop soliciting!

posted by HeyNowTex on September 5th 2009 at 7:40pm
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