Repurposed Timber Home-wares – Design Round Two
So a few weeks ago I spent another few days in the Katoomba workshop working on a second round of design ideas.
True to our name, the “house of origin” of all of these boards in our Tessa Street project.
This is a very exciting time for us at House of Origin as it signifies the ability for our vision to become reality.
We are so pleased to be able to have the opportunity to creatively repurpose timbers that would otherwise have been discarded, by turning them into something elegantly utilitarian or simply beautiful which can be appreciated for years to come. Please feel free to comment here and let us know if you like what you see or have any suggestions for future designs.
We will shortly add images of the completed and “finished” boards and in the next little while we will have a sales page on our website where you will be able to review our selection of cutting boards, tea stands, pot stands, breakfast trays and other repurposed timber articles.
Not only is it an amazing treat to see these timbers be given a new lease of life and watching the timber sing as we finally put oil on them after hours of working, but it is especially great for me to have the opportunity to work alongside my incredibly knowledgable father, because without his incredible depth of skills none of this would be possible. Thanks dad.
This board uses a simple striped pattern which was then cut and offset for a bit of interest. The timbers here are grey decking boards from Chatswood as well as some recycled red strips of unknown origin from an old job of dad’s…Not quite true to the House of Origin name, but certainly recycled and thus in keeping with the ethos.
This board is actually made up of all the off-cut strips generated while making other boards. Makes for a very elegant combination and is capped at each end with smaller pre-laminated strips. All timbers are sourced from the Tessa Street project.
As an alternative to the cutting boards, we developed a thicker board with the timbers laminated on edge. This large board is then to be cut into 2 smaller boards to be used as tea-pot stands or similar. I have subsequently oiled these and they look amazing. Because some of the boards are very old, they have a deep outer colour which is especially apparent with seen on end like this if you don’t plane it back first and it makes for a beautiful delineation between the coloured boards.
This little guys is actually an off-cut from a larger bread-board which we have framed in smaller off-cuts of the deep grey decking boards.
As proof of the longevity of these boards, here is one we prepared earlier, 19 years earlier in fact. This board was made as a wedding present and has been in pretty constant use all that time. It looked a bit ragged, but came up beautifully after a good sanding.
Here is a whole set of boards getting their final touch-ups before getting their light sanding and finishing. Very satisfying and if it wasn’t so cold in the shed in Katoomba, maybe I would have stood around with a beer admiring my work…
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