Real History in your Home

When you are decorating your home, have you ever considered where the furniture comes from? Sure, many pieces came from a department store, a catalog, or were a hand-me-downs. But what kind of stories are those? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a piece of furniture with a real history and a real story?

Barnwood furniture has a story to tell. These reclaimed wood furniture pieces have decades or even centuries of stories to tell before they ever became a piece of furniture. Your piece of custom reclaimed wood furniture will be handcrafted with pieces of the floors, beams and siding of old barns, mostly from the America’s heartland. Over time, these structures weaken and become a danger. But instead of seeing these dilapidated buildings bulldozed and taken to a landfill, the good quality, aged wood is being rescued to take on a new life. These old growth pieces of wood have been here since the pioneers first spread West and reusing these pieces of history in new ways lets us reconnect to our roots and heritage.

When it comes to the woods used in barn wood picnic tables and furniture, the main woods are white pine, yellow pine, fir and hemlock. Many of these fine old timbers and boards are hand hewn by the people who built these barns to shelter livestock and harvests. The strength, character and grain of these old growth woods simply can’t be found today.

If you thought a regular aged table had character, think of a barnwood coffee table or old barnwood occasional table that is made of wood that’s 100 to 250 years old. The materials used in that table were around for the birth of a nation.

The added bonus of having furniture crafted from reclaimed wood is that it is environmentally friendly. Recycling old barnwood instead of chopping down new trees to create a new piece of furniture is very popular these days.

Barnwood furniture is not limited to tables either, but is being built to fit any room of a home, from shelving and pantries for your kitchen to tables and chests. Even beds and dressers are being built of barnwood, offering old country rustic charm to every space in your home.