Barnwood Furniture – Stages of Wood Reclamation and Why It’s Important

 

Barnwood furniture is a hot decorating style that not only makes your home look incredible but feels good for the soul too. These reclaimed pieces can easily be incorporated in your home décor. If you want a great dinner table evocative of old log homes that will draw people together and create an on the spot discussion, then opt for barn wood. Here are the stages in which wood is recovered from old barns and remade into quality furniture.

 

First Stage: Raw Material

 

This is where a source for your barnwood furniture is found – old, abandoned barns are examined and the best of the wood and beams taken for reprocessing as furniture. Unlike the medium density particle board and pressed wood furniture commonly in use today, barn wood uses no adhesives to hold it together, and is therefore free of the volatile organic compounds that these adhesives release.

 

Second Stage: Production

 

It is during this stage that your barnwood furniture is actually built. Regardless of your taste in furniture, you can get a style to suit you. The barn wood is used to produce dining tables and chairs, beds, coffee tables – you name it. The products are inexhaustible, and a simple search should turn up the exact pieces you’re looking for. Barn wood can be used for both interior and exterior furniture because it is so strong, with such a good texture.

 

End Stage: Finishing

 

This is the stage where the furniture is given its final touches. Each piece of barnwood furniture is made with between ninety and ninety-five percent recycled materials. The furniture is one hundred percent solid wood. White, red and ponderosa pine, hemlock, spruce and oak are the commonest types of wood found in old barns, so your furniture is likely to be made from any one of these materials.