Our reclaimed wood furniture is a fabulous addition to your decor. It has the heart and soul of a vintage piece, combined with the customization durability of bench made furniture.
You'll find the furniture is easy to care for and gets better with age. Bookmark this post, so when your furniture piece arrives, you will have all the information you need at your fingertips to keep it looking its prettiest.
About Reclaimed Wood
Our pieces are made from wood from old barns and warehouses found in southern California. Each piece of furniture is made to order and will honor the original design, but will have its own special unique qualities because of the wood that's used.
Wood is a living thing, even after it's been milled and crafted into a table or cabinet. Occasionally, when the air gets cooler, or your air conditioning is running, you'll see seasonal cracks open up in your table. This effect is similar to what you see in hardwood floors when the seasons change. When the weather changes back, they'll close up again.
About our Finishes
Our black and espresso finishes are stained and sealed, so care is typical of any other stained and sealed finish you have in your house. To clean your furniture, use a soft cloth and Murphy's Oil Soap, cleaning with the grain of the piece. We like a flour sack towel for this purpose and occasionally wax with clear bri-wax.
Our waxed pine finish is a true hand applied wax, so it is not integrated into the wood itself. It ages beautifully and is a very forgiving finish - it's already imperfect, so imperfections don't show as readily. But it does require a little extra care.
To clean your furniture, use a soft cloth and Murphy's Oil Soap, cleaning with the grain of the piece. We like a flour sack towel for this purpose.
For waxed pine finishes, you may want to occasionally wax the wood with Bri-Wax light brown, which you can find in your local hardware store or on Amazon.
Again, wax with the grain using your flour sack towel.
If you are waxing an extending table, put the extensions in the table and wax the entire top.
Your extending table top is constructed, then the extensions are cut out of it, so the grain flows beautifully across the table top when the extensions are in or out. That means there is a left and a right extension. If you feel the leaves are not fitting properly, switch ends and that will typically resolve the problem. We find that writing "1" and "2" on the inside edge of the table and the leaves is an easy way to match the leaves with the right end of the table.
As always, if you have any additional questions, just contact us. We're here for you.