From Starbucks to Whole Foods Market, Reclaimed Designworks has an impressive roster of commercial clients. Now they're making their materials available for home projects. Whether you're renovating an entire house or just adding charm to an existing space, Reclaimed Designworks might be what you're looking for.
For full projects, you can find flooring, beams and other building materials, all with the character inherent in reclaimed wood. If you're looking to add a little character to a space, Reclaimed Designworks has mantels galore, along with boards for creating on-trend wood walls. You can also pick up unusual materials, like boxcar planks and wine barrel wood, for DIY furniture or other projects.
Reclaimed Designworks currently has three showrooms — Denver, Charleston and, opening this month, Austin. If you're not near a showroom, their website gives a comprehensive rundown of materials available, as well as an extensive collection of photos of projects.
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Reclaimed DesignWorks is a nationwide supplier of reclaimed wood products and antique building materials. This is your source for floor, wall and ceiling board, beams and much, more.
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Only in America would we go to a Designer Showroom and pay "mid-range to high-end" prices for old barn wood. People: Just take a drive through rural Ohio. You can get it the stuff for FREE. They may even pay YOU to haul it away.
Sadly I like this reclaimed wall paneling look and it's one of the few major changes I could afford to do inside my 480 sq ft house, however there is the resale value to think about. If only some of us really were free to do what we desire with our homes...having learned my lesson with my former home, there are some personal choices that do not pay off when the time comes to sell.
At this time I'm debating just redoing the floors in reclaimed wood but still haven't found a source that reflects what I judge as fair prices for the materials, even then I'd best sand everything and stain it more or less to match.
I'm with rexrayfan, what you need is the courage to drive up to the owner of an old barn and strike a deal, and to own a pickup truck.
... and you'd need to own the equipment to "kiln fire the wood to get rid of impurities," and mill the wood, and all the other stuff this company does to make the wood ready for reuse. Not to mention the time and skills! This isn't just Home Depot lumber that you need to sand a bit. It's a bit more high-maintenance than that.
Basically, rural anywhere. It just takes time, energy, patience, and some basic knowhow to determine whether the scraps you're looking at can be used as something else. Sometimes scrap wood is just scrap wood and there's no amount of finesse that will make it able to be properly repurposed.