Designing the Perfect Reclaimed Wood Accent Wall

Accent walls and feature walls provide a wonderful focal point for a room, office or home. Reclaimed wood can offer warm, natural accent to these designs, adding texture, depth and a range of colors.

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Staircase Nosing Options: which is right for your project?

Staircase nosing is both an aesthetic and safety consideration when designing a space with stairs, and there are many options to choose from. Each offers a distinct style that can enhance the overall design of your home or interior design. Staircase nosing refers to the very edge of the stair tread where we usually put our feet as we walk up and downs stairs.

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Anthology Woods Publishes Red-List Approved Declare Label for Solid Wood Products

In a continued effort to offer enhanced sustainability and transparency certifications, Anthology Woods has published our first Declare Label for our Reclaimed Solid Wood Flooring & Paneling, with Unfinished, Oil Finish & Low-VOC Poly Finish. This label displays that our products fall under the Red-List Approved Category, ensuring that our wood flooring & paneling promotes healthy indoor air quality and does not contain harmful chemicals or substances.

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Anthology Woods Publishes Health Product Declarations for Reclaimed Wood Products

Anthology Woods is proud to announce newly published Health Product Declarations for four of our reclaimed wood cladding products. HPDs are a transparency documentation that discloses product data related to sustainability and health within the building environment. We are excited to be a part of a greener building future!

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Choosing the Best Reclaimed Wood Source

Reclaimed wood is a popular choice for flooring, paneling, furniture and custom installations that is sustainable, recycled and filled with natural beauty. Along with the age of this wood comes many obstacles to provide quality, consistent and stable flooring and paneling that is easy to install and maintain for the customer.

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Kiln Drying Reclaimed Wood: A Key Step to Quality

Kiln drying is the process of drying wood in a controlled environment, where temperature, air circulation and humidity are monitored and stabilized. The wood is slowly dried to a target point, protecting it from checking, warping or cupping. This is an alternative to air-dying the wood, which simply involves stacking the lumber outdoors over a period of time to dry.

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Second Annual Reclaimed Wood Garage Sale in Ashland Oregon

We are excited to host our second ever garage sale here in Ashland, OR. We will be offering a variety of quality reclaimed, salvaged and FSC® Certified wood in a variety of dimensions at amazingly low prices!

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Source Story: Bidwell Walnut Salvaged from Orchards and Roadsides

Bidwell Walnut (Claro Walnut) is a deciduous hardwood tree native to the upper Sacramento River basin. The unique lumber is known for its rich, swirling colors, and is coveted particularly by gun stock manufactures and master craftsmen. The wood’s history begins with John Bidwell.

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European Fumed Oak: Getting this Antique Look with Reclaimed Wood

Fuming, or “smoking,” wood (predominantly oak species) is a process that involves exposing the wood to ammonia gas, which reacts with the tannins. Learn more about about the history of this type of wood and how to style it in your design project.

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The Reclaimed Wood Process: Turning Old Barns Into Reclaimed Wood Paneling and Flooring

Finding an old barn to reclaim locally is a rare and exciting process. We located this old barn in the Rogue Valley in Southern Oregon, and began the process of carefully dismantling the structure.

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More than Barn Wood: 8 Modern Takes on Reclaimed Wood

Surprise! Reclaimed wood is more than just rustic barn wood! Designers and homeowners alike have started to see the potential in using reclaimed wood for a variety of modern and contemporary spaces, providing fresh inspiration and awe-inspiring designs.

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Wood Samples Now Available on Material Bank

Get Anthology Wood’s samples overnight! Anthology Woods is available on Material Bank, where designers and architects can browse thousands of materials for their upcoming projects.

While other companies scrambled to digitize their operations during the COVID-19 pandemic, Material Bank was already ahead of the game. Material Bank is the largest architectural and design-centric materials resource library, offering thousands of product samples for all aspects of design projects, from sink faucets to wood flooring.

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Source Story: Heritage Oak

Reclaimed Spirit

The rich history of our forefathers can be felt through each plank of our Heritage Oak wood. Many Eastern farmers upon staking their claim would build and live in their barns first before building their homes. To them barns represented the farms income and where their livestock lived. In this region of the US, Oak trees were the most common tree to be found, so this is why most barns in Eastern US were constructed of either red or white oak planks. The wood from an Oak Tree is strong and hard, with a high tannin content making it resistant to both insect and fungal attack. Despite their rich legacies and strong timber frames, so many of these structures have been left empty as new generations head to the city abandoning the old family farm.

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Products for Projects: Custom Bar Tops, Tables & Cladding at Milk Money Restaurant

Our approach is different: we create, mill and finish each product to order and can work with your specific design specifications. Milk Money Bar and Restaurant is a great example of this process, where we worked with their team to find the right product, providing ceiling cladding, wall paneling, table tops and a stunning 90-foot custom bar top that we fabricated from beautiful salvaged white oak.

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Chevron & Herringbone: History of These Popular Parquet Wood Flooring Patterns

In recent years, chevron and herringbone patterned wood flooring has become extremely popular, and for good reason. The geometric patterns create visual interest within a space and offers a luxurious European feel. But where do these patterns come from? Both have curious stories that span the architectural, textile design and art worlds.

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Source Story: Grandstand Fir & Pine

Most of us have shared memories of filing into our gymnasiums for school rallies, basketball games and dreaded gym class. Nowadays most bleachers are made of aluminum or concrete, but perhaps you remember sneaking a piece of elastic chewing gum underneath wooden bleachers when the teacher wasn’t looking. At the time, you probably wouldn’t have been impressed that these bleachers were high quality wide plank, long length clear pine and fir that make incredible flooring and paneling. But now, you might!

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This Contemporary Home Sources Reclaimed Wood From One Entire Railroad Building

This is a true “barn to table” kind of story. But in this case the barn is a 19th century railroad building in the midwest and the table is an entire Napa Valley estate.

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Source Story: Smokehouse Blend

Stepping into an old tobacco barn, you’re entering into another age. Smoke still clings to the blackened walls and the air tastes sweet and musty. Our Smokehouse Blend pays homage to these structures, usually built of pine timbers, and embodies the rich history of that era.

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Anthology Woods Reclaimed Teak Featured on Interiors + Sources Digital Publication

Our Sakhay Teak product was chosen for a feature article on Interiors + Sources, and online and print publication focused on commercial interior design topics. The article, “How Reclaimed Teak Can Offer Versatility to Your Project,” describes the wide range of qualities inherent to teak, including its impressive resistant to water, insects, rot and cracking.

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