Wood Counter - Kitchen
 What a fun project! While the pictures show a bit of construction dust, they're still fun to see. Here's a complete kitchen full of reclaimed wood countertops -- Red Oak to be exact. The wood came from the floor joists and secondary studs from an old log cabin. The log cabin was saved as a log cabin, but we were blessed with the opportunity to re-use the old dimensional lumber. The wood dated back the the 1800s with a wonderful, unique patina. When I first saw this batch, I knew it was going to be special.  This kitchen has classic looking sage green and ivory painted cabinets accented with rich auborn and brown tones of the red oak wood countertops. It's a wonderful kitchen for those who love to cook -- full size stainless steel appliances, several sinks, and a stove water top. It has a nice pass-thru for serving on the eating island. A classic hutch also helps set the tone. We even cut out a special area on one of the countertops so a cutting board and a marble pasty board could be inserted and interchanged. It's well worth your while to browse the full set of pictures. Of course, our client Abby, is thrilled. Here's a few excerpts from her emails, July 5th, "The last counter arrived several weeks ago and it is beautiful. Thank you....the counters are amazing." Sept 28 (with pictures), "we continue to be grateful to you for the gorgeous work." I've always said I had a great job. This is why! Labels: Wood Countertop
Wood Countertop-Wine
 Normally, I patiently wait for photos from our clients of our finished pieces in their home. I couldn't wait on this one. This is a really neat piece. It's a wood countertop, well actually a wood bartop, with a wine barrel stave leading edge. The edge is accented with original square nails from an old granary. The center hosts a wine barrel inlay where you can still see the red wine stains. Finally, an end-grain block rests in the center of it all. The wine barrel staves come from California and the wood came from an old corn crib in Minnesota.  This was a fun, iterative process with our client. (see the picture set to look at some of the mock ups). The initial conversation ended with "something interesting in a 5 foot wide wood counter with an arc peaking at 24 inches and starting at 16 inches on each side." We played with Google SketchUp to mock up many different variations. We played with pickle vat wood, plain old white oak, an inlay here and an inlay there. This is the result. Turns out that the natural bend in the barrel staves was nearly a perfect fit for this 16 to 24 inch arch over 5 feet. What beautiful stroke of luck. An of course, what better way to enjoy a glass of wine than on a neat piece of reclaimed wood like this? Labels: Wood Countertop
Wood Countertop - Oak
 More pictures from clients. This one comes from a client near Chicago, Illinois. It's a wood countertop, or bar top, made from reclaimed white oak. It features a "live" edge full of character. The edge is particularly nice because it has lots of worm trails on it as well the irregular edge line. The top surface is what we'd consider more conservative in that it's a pretty clean interior cut from a beam. The top is a great accent to the faux stone bar sides.  This picture shows how this countertop started it's life. This little stick was about 18 feet long, 13 inches wide, and 6 inches thick. The first half of this old granary sill beam had already been used on another table top. We slab this piece out about 3 times more and off to the kiln it went After being in the kiln, we began to saw, plane, and glue pieces together. We made the countertop as one long piece originally. It was eventually cut and glued to create the 45 degree turn. Finally, the sanding started. We  sanded and sanded some more. We filled some holes with epoxy and sanded even more. After quite a bit of sanding, we finally arrived at something like the picture below. After the sanding was complete, we applied 5 coats of Waterlox Tung Oil and we were ready to ship. If you're interested, there's several more pictures to browse. For other countertops, take a look at the wood countertops section of the website. Labels: Wood Countertop
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