Marc Stimpson 4/23/18 Marc Stimpson 4/23/18

Reclaiming Pieces of History

Reclaimed chestnut beams for flooring and tables

Old Barns in New England (Hampden, MA)

This particular barn looks to be about 200 years old and has reached the end of its life. It will come down, and it will be repurposed. It is important to identify what is worth saving an what is not worth saving. This barn is constructed with chestnut, southern yellow pine and hemlock timbers. There is no doubt that these timbers can be repurposed into something beautiful for residential or commercial applications. We repurpose reclaimed beams into the following:

Flooring
Tables
Benches
Faux Beams

If you are interested in having a piece of furniture made from reclaimed material, please contact us. Or if you have material that you think we would be interested in please contact us.

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Marc Stimpson 7/10/14 Marc Stimpson 7/10/14

Trees and tables made in Rhode Island

Buying furniture can be confusing and difficult. Often times this is because we dont know where to begin... Building furniture here in Rhode Island gives us a great advantage because we are able to locally source our lumber, meet with clients, and deliver our pieces without much travel.

Here at Hopes Woodshop we pride ourselves on making sure that we are sustainably harvesting local trees. This means we primarily use trees that may have come down in a storm or were yard trees that were dangerous for homeowners and their homes.

6 months ago I received a phone call at 7am from a friend that the Sugar Maple tree was coming down in front of her home in Providence, RI. I jumped out of bed and rushed to see if I could save this log from being firewood. As you can see from the photos below, I was successful!

Saving a tree from firewood

Timber!

Urban Forestry

This was the best way I could get these logs to the sawmill that day

We work with a local Sawmill in Coventry RI, that take these trees and mill them into usable lumber that we can build our furniture with. Once the lumber is milled, the drying process begins. This takes anywhere from 1-2 years until the lumber has reached its optimal moisture content of 7-10%. Below are photos of the stickering and stacking process.