Designing with Salvaged Wood
Don't throw away that wood.
Whilst happily surfing on a Sunday morning when the baby was napping, I came across this mention of scrap wood wallpaper (via Design Milk and Home Rejuvenation). Now, what if that were not wallpaper, but actual pieces of scrap wood used to make an interesting wall covering? Or artwork? That could be cool.
And, since we have found enough scrap wood in this house to wallpaper an entire neighborhood, I thought, hmmm. What are other people doing out there with scrap wood?
I found this very cool furniture at a company called Scrapile (via Inhabitat).
An architectural salvage place in New Jersey called Recycling the Past showcases some recycled creations.
Laird Campbell is an artist in Vancouver who uses salvaged wood to create beautiful art.
George Anders builds amazing things at the request of friends and clients from salvaged wood.
La Puerta in Santa Fe takes old wooden doors and structural elements and turns them into something magical.
Silk Felt Soil showcases salvaged wood material from Urban Tree Salvage. Oh, the things that we could make out of a gorgeous slab!
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Comments
I would think a wall like that would look good until time went by and dust got in the cracks. It would really be a nightmare to keep clean in some envirements.
I built my dock from treated 2/6's I got that had been sitting in a corner of a garden shop for about 5 years. They switched to some kind of modular shelving and forgot about the lumber. When I found it the top layer was pretty weathered but it still had the osmose tags on it so I offered them $100 and hauled it away.
Everything below the top layer was straight and clean, I think it was about 300 12 footers.
Posted by: Senseless_ | January 5, 2007 7:39 PM
hey guys,
thanks for the link!
i loveeeee these ideas, esp the wallpaper!
xx p
Posted by: phoebe (silk felt soil) | January 5, 2007 10:12 PM
Hi there - long time reader, first time poster. Also restoring a bungalow (1923) here in Bangor, Maine. Over Christmas, our short, satisfying project (much shorter than our seemingly endless bathroom remodel) was to build a window seat where there used to be one in our dining room (removed by a PO, but we saw the telltale stain lines on the wall). So, on to salvaged lumber - we had a piano we couldn't get out of our basement (maybe there used to be a bulkhead?) so we dis-assembled it and re-used the wood to build the window seat. It had a lovely patina, and we couldn't otherwise afford mahogany! The 2 tiny pieces of mahogany I had to buy to complete the baseboard cost more ($20) than the whole project, save the pieces of foam for the seat cushions (that stuff is expensive!) I have a little pdf of the project if you're interested - I don't know how to upload stuff to a blog, so can't do it here. Feel free to email if you want to see it.
Great work you're doing - it's inspiring to see someone else in the same boat!
Posted by: Sarah Nelson | February 23, 2007 10:05 AM