Antique Wood Choices

Plank Flooring - Imagine your rooms finished in your favorite wood in extra long, distinctive wide plank floors once found only in historic period homes. The wider plank flooring, in longer lengths portend quality that stands out as a cut above the rest. Hardwood plank floors elevate ordinary rooms to the spectacular. The genial warmth and lustrous personality of wood plank flooring distinguish your home, making it memorable.

Paneling - Nothing compares to the unique experience of walking into a room with wood paneling. The captivating patina and texture of wooden paneled walls envelopes those who enter with a sensual warmth unachievable with any other treatment. Interior paneled walls have nearly always been decorated. Originally, hardwood paneling was used as a means to seal a room from cold drafts, but almost immediately became showcase for craftsmanship, with artistic expression reaching its peak in the 18th century.

Custom Doors - Customers often tell us that, of all of the fine architectural elements in their home, they are the most proud of their custom doors. We are confident that your family will be proud of how our custom doors compliment your home. We know of no finer hardwood door available at any price.

We routinely work with:

Antique Heart Pine

Antique White & Red Oak

Antique Cypress

Antique Chestnut

River-recovered Heart Pine

River-recovered Cypress

Original Patina material

Hand-hewn material

Rough-sawn material

Weathered Barn-board

Antique Wood Choices - We reclaim various venerable old wooden timbers from buildings either deteriorating or slated to be torn down for various reasons. The wood is too valuable to let waste and it is therefore given a new lease on life.

Sometimes it is kept in the original timber or floor decking form, others it is re-milled to produce beautiful flooring, paneling, moldings, stair parts, etc. Many of the original timbers have a beautiful patina developed over hundreds of years. Others have original hand hewing and mortise pockets.

Nearly all of the material has insect holes, nail and bolt holes, checking, some cracking, and other characteristics of age. Most of all the wood has a mellow coloring and fine grain unavailable from newly cut material. No amount of distressing and staining/glazing can achieve what hundreds of years of age can do.