In the Works...

Here's a drawing of the armoire I alluded to in my last post. The final product will look roughly like this, but when you're working with reclaimed wood, you're always prepared to make changes. I'm using windows for the armoire doors and siding on the sides and inset in the drawer fronts.

Heart Pine Coffee Table Revisited

Here's the coffee table my last post was about in it's new home. 

I'm working on an armoire right now made entirely of reclaimed wood. It's gonna take me a long time to finish but I'll get it up as soon as I finish.

Heart Pine Coffee Table

This is a coffee table my mom had me make:

The top is left over heart pine flooring from our house in Jackson and the legs are balusters from the Raymond wood reclamation. The top is just stained and sanded with polyurethane on top and I did the legs much like the hutch with the weathered look. I stained them and then painted them white on top. After that I randomly sanded them and finished off with a coat of polyurethane to make the background wood pop.

Below are a few pictures of the process:

Original baluster on the right and coffee table leg on the right.

Underside before legs and apron rail were attached

Top immediately after staining and before sanding

Underside after legs and apron rail were painted, sanded, and attached.

Final Product

With the heart pine flooring and the heart pine reclaimed legs, I could really only make 3-4 more of these, but this is most likely one of a kind.
Cost: ~$650 (Not for Sale)

Logos

Thanks to my brother Daniel, we have a new name and logos to go with it. Here they are:

They look great. Thanks, Daniel. 

Also, I haven't forgotten about posting the coffee table mentioned in my last post. Hopefully I'll finish tonight and have a post up about it tomorrow.

In Progress...

I'm working on a few coffee tables right now. One's a birthday gift, so I'm not gonna post any pictures of it until after it has been received. I'll post updates on the other one soon though.

The Great Raymond Furniture Reclamation

So here's the story behind this Clampett-esque truckload of old wood: My dad, his brother and two sisters own a rental house in Raymond that they inherited from their father. Behind the house is a storage shed where my grandfather stored anything he could find (he was a keeper-of-all-things, so I'm told). Thank goodness for that, in this case. There were all kinds of awesome pieces that could be reclaimed into coffee tables, bookshelves, tables, etc. I struck a deal with my dad to give the family 10% of profits earned on anything made from the Raymond wood. We hauled our load back and unloaded it into the driveway.

After sitting in a shed for ~40 years, this stuff was pretty nasty so I spent the rest of the day washing off all the dirt, cobwebs and general grime. Wetting the wood also gives me a general sense of what it will look like after polyurethane or another water sealer is applied. Water sealers always tend to richen and brighten the wood, so this lets me know if staining is needed or not. All of this wood is beautiful and I'm excited to start thinking about ways to give them a new lease on life. All in all I came away with:

2 fireplace mantles,

7 doors, 6 windows, some pieces of siding, a huge heart-pine beam, 2 heart pine columns, 20 balusters, and a few random pieces of wood.

Email me if you're interested in any of these pieces. Otherwise, I'm just gonna start building things on my own and put them up for sale.

Follow-Up: Hutch/No-Name Piece

Here's the piece I made for Rivers all done up. Right now it's in the foyer at the Uithoven's until Rivers moves somewhere with more room. I think they did a great job decorating it and really like the way it turned out. Just a quick follow-up post. New post coming in a little while.