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God I love that. Totally jealous.

While the look is nice, the practicality is something else. With stacked wood you get black widow spiders and all kinds of other nasties. Not to mention being impossible to clean/dust without an air-compressor (which is tempting sometimes!). Not to mention being wasteful since it uses more wood than it would take for a regular wall.

If someone could recreate the look with thin slices, that'd be cool...

Ew ew ew. I just hit "hot", but didn't think about spiders, boomer. Ew again. I guess I'm reconsidering my judgement.

I really like the look----but am saying that with practicality aside (as in Challenge 3 of the current Design Star series). My chief concern would be dust. I grew up in an incredible house constructed of stone, and while the aesthetic remains cool, the interior walls of stone produce dust everywhere. But hot it is, this wall of cord wood, again pushing reality aside and merely admiring the patterns of wood.

exactly. imagine all the spiders...

I love it. I don't have spiders in my house so that's not a concern for me. I would love this wall in my living room.

That wall makes me uncomfortable and I'm not sure why.

Termites.

If you didn't have spiders before installing this, you will afterwards.

I was trying to figure out why I was instinctively recoiling from something that looks quite nice, then boomer's post reminded me of my father's repeated warnings never, ever to mess with a pile of scrap lumber sitting outside, lest a black widow spider bite me.

I like the look very much, but not using an actual cord of wood though, but take however many logs it takes, slice them in 2-3" thickness at most to create rounds and then fasten to the wall for the same effect, doing this may not attract spiders like an actual cord would.

Very nice in a modern residential/commercial setting, paired with a strong color such as an intense blue next to it with white for the trim etc.

I was thinking "Spiders, bees and chipmunks... oh my!"

Okay, spiders (I am TERRIFIED of spiders), termites, bees, chipmunks... but what if you put solid glass in front of it? The day they make a spider that can chew through glass is the day I move to another planet.

Maybe because growing up my family cut, spit and stacked our own wood for heat during the winter makes this seems a bit useless, not to mention a lot of work. What makes it a strong design element is the texture and pattern made by an unexpected element that is otherwise out of context.

I appreciate the effort that went into the creation of the wall, but it makes me itch just looking at it. I think I would be somewhat obsessed about what is living in the wood, in the spaces between the wood, and what might crawl out to say "hello" when I least expect it!

flammable.
which to me implies "hot".

I was wondering about the fire hazard aspect myself. Though that would keep the spiders under control.

wouldn't you just vacuum it every so often when you vacuum your home? that would keep spiders at bay.....my house is full of spiders and i don't mind...they are the harmless variety that keep other more annoying insects away. plus i love charlotte.....