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Termites

Stacks that large? I just picture spiders and termites.

termites, much?

what about the spiders and other bugs that come with firewood? you've just given them a free entry pass to your home. it's best to bring in what you need, when you need it.

Bugs.
Especially spiders. Ugh.

agreed. bugs, dirt, and some of these look like serious fire hazards.

chipmunks. adorable.

When I was young I grew up in a house that was soley heated thru a fireplace (and water pumped thru the house heated by the fireplace). Wood is only cool and sexy and fun when you don't have to do all the work involved with it and we certainly never had more than the next 12 hour's worth of wood in the house, it's really messy stuff, wood and dirt and general all the stuff that goes with it and of course if you are actually heating with it having enough inside for the whole year isn't feasible so snow and mush and then the bugs that sometimes show up are a mild annoyance.

I don't have a fireplace and it's summer, but the stacked firewood is so beautiful. I want to go out and buy some.

Aesthetically I like it, but I agree with the posteres above about potential problems, esp termites

I don't mind spiders though. Gets rid of the other bugs. Haha.

why is it when something beautiful is shown on this site, everyone quickly de-bunks it, knocks it down, dismisses it...

i think natural elements like these are gorgeous!

Off topic, but i LOVE that narrow sofa table/console in the first pic. Does anyone know where I can find something similar? All the ones I've found are around 15 inches deep and this one looks to be 8-10 inches.

Carpenter ants. Good luck.

Come on, hla21.

We're just reality-checking here. And believe me, termites and carpenter ants are one kind of reality you don't want IN your house! However nice that pile of wood looks (and it IS gorgeous), being deprived of sleep because the very structure of your house is threatened does not make it worth the while. Around here, nobody brings wood inside anymore, except a few logs at a time, and after careful scrutiny.

Why does everyone assume that someone will take that much wood into their house without knocking off the dirt and bugs?

We've never had a problem with ours! And we live in Florida.

When I was growing up in the Midwest we always stored our firewood in a pile a few feet from the house specifically because of termites. I agree that this is a cool idea and interesting to look at but if anyone has ever peered at what takes up residence under a pile of wood they might think twice before bringing that pile inside.

When I was growing up, we only had wood heat, and nobody liked having to go out to the woodshed on cold mornings. If there was any way we could have beautifully arranged the logs without fear of all that's been said above, we certainly would have.

I think it's kind of funny to see this post, given the fact that so many people I've seen on this site paint out their wood panelling. To me that's a much more practical way to get the warmth and texture of wood, but maybe I'm missing something.

Not a huge fan of the indoor log pile look, but there was one example that I absolutely loved- an image from "The Find," in which a glass-front cabinet/hutch was used to store logs. It was gorgeous and seemed to blend indoor outdoor a little better than some of the images above... plus, you wouldn't have to worry about bugs as much, right?

Termites and carpenter ants, sure, but on the other hand, if spiders came along they could eat the rest, although not sure I'd want to have brown recluses and black widows in the house -- we have enough of those in the workshop. On the other hand, wood piled outside invariably becomes a local Snake Motel. Some of the natives here are benign, a few are poisonous, and all of 'em will scare the dickens out of you. Especially if you're not expecting something to come slithering out from under the log you just picked up.

It's all a trade-off, I suppose, but I'd rather have slithering things outside the house than multi-legged biting things inside the house. I'll find some other way to bring nature into my house -- oh, wait, I don't have to. Round here, it's gonna get in no matter what I do. I need to learn to decorate in a way that makes nature wanna stay outside, not come inside and hang out for awhile.

Can anyone tell where I could get that great orange seat?