Art & Decor

Well here’s a unique piece! Say hi to “Laurel”

Laurel is made of 76 pieces of reclaimed wood. Heart pine, red oak, cedar, chestnut, white pine, blue pine, yellow poplar, white oak, walnut, and cherry! Some reeeally old barnwood pieces with the square nails still in them! She’s 5.5ft long and 3.5ft tall!!! Weighed in at 52lbs. Beast. The client saw my booth at Westside Market Toco Hills in Atlanta, GA and contacted me about a custom piece for their newly built sun porch. Well she’s home already and I think, really ties the room together!I added a few progress pics and one of me in the carving process, with saw dust and shavings EVERYWHERE and all over EVERYHING just to show the process.

Here’s a lil clock!
Made this lil guy from scraps. Had no plan for the pieces when I started straightening and gluing them up! It just came together.
All the wood used are native species that were salvaged, milled, or both in Georgia and eastern Alabama.
Red cedar, Heart pine, Cypress, White pine, yellow poplar, and Black walnut.

Added a new item to my build list. These two large charcuterie boards are just over 3ft long by 16inches wide.
The wood is reclaimed “blue pine.”
Blue pine is created by a nondestructive fungus in the sapwood. When the wood is milled and exposed to the sun and dries, the wood has the “blue” stains you see here!
It’s completely food safe. Boards were oiled with a food grade oil.

Frame is Altamaha River Cypress, back ground board is heartpine

salavaged from a “packhouse’ in South Georgia. The GA is heartpine, cypress, black walnut, and rainbow poplar.

This guy has a redwood frame, reclaimed from a deck. The background is heart pine reclaimed from the log cabin demo in South Georgia. The Georgia is made with walnut, heart pine, cypress, and poplar.

Here’s a new Georgia piece! Heartpine frame made from log cabin in South GA. Inner trim is redwood salvaged from a deck. Background is reclaimed blue painted beadboard from a house near Highlands NC. The GA is made from rainbow poplar, cypress, black walnut, and heart pine.

New cutting board
Made with cypress, walnut, poplar, and tight grain heart pine on the edges. Turned out pretty good! Those green and black colors from the poplar really brings out the cypress and walnut colors!

Atlanta Skyline using various pieces and scraps with character/colors from my pile of leftovers.

All reclaimed material except the background which is all naturally colored rainbow poplar. Woods used: poplar, pine, heart pine, chestnut, Burmese teak, cedar, walnut, and oak. Framed with very old barnwood heart pine, (my personal favorite, but I suppose that’s obvious) 42”x22”

In 2018 I did a series I called “Woods of Georgia.” All based on reclaimed wood or native species from around the state of Georgia. Made the Alabama wall hanger for a buddy of mine, as a gift for his father. All reclaimed and All Native wood to the Southeastern US. Frame is Altamaha Cypress, background is chippy paint siding yellow poplar from a house in north east GA, and the Bama is good ol heart pine.

Here is a mirror framed with live edge heartpine.

These boards were removed from a log cabin in North Carolina. They were skim boards, cut from the logs used to build the house. They are COVERED in really old square nails and some round nails. They survived because they were covered in tin.I cut out notches at the joints so they’d resemble a log cabin. It’s a monster and heavy! 57” x 48”

A Georgia, with Georgia colors?

That’s how it came out either way! Heartpine Georgia with chippy white paint. Background is charred heartpine from an old cabin in northwest GA that burned down. The red frame and inset frame is made from reclaimed yellow poplar.

Trying to use up leftover pieces, parts, and scraps!

Gets difficult at times to put together a piece and it be uniform in color. Or have enough of certain boards to complete a piece.

This one turned out better than expected. Chestnut frame (all chestnut is reclaimed due to a blight killing them off around 1900), used the rough edges of the chestnut for the inner trim. The GA is reclaimed yellow poplar, from a cabin in northwest GA. The background is chippy paint pine siding from North Carolina.

I said it before, it applies even more now... I wish I could pull a Mary Poppins and jump into this mountain scene! Especially now that we’ve all been quarantined for weeks!

All natural colors. No stains. No filters. All nature!

What do you think? Can you see the sunset and the lake?

Found a few pieces of amazing Rainbow Poplar over the past few months. Every color you see is NATURAL!! No paints, stains, or filters. Beautiful.
I’m told the colors come from yellow poplars that grow near a river/stream/creek/swamp and uptake minerals from the water and soil.
No matter how it happens, it sure makes for a beautiful medium to create mountain scenes!! The other pictures are closeups of each section.
1ftx4ft

Tried my hand on clock making. Used leftover materials and pieces of wood from my junk pile to make a Georgia clock.
The frame is reclaimed pine. The background is reclaimed interior wall board made of pine. The blue color was already there! The Georgia in the middle is pine, stained with golden pecan color.

Atlanta Skyline out of reclaimed sheet tin. The background is a piece of reclaimed black granite and framed with reclaimed pine. To me, the granite makes a starry night sky.
This little guy is heavy!! Unfortunately there isn’t a way to make a large piece of granite weigh less. At 35lbs, this is a solid piece. And meant for a desktop or shelf.
24”x12”

Ever wish you were Mary Poppins and could just jump into a picture??
In the heat and humidity, I’d love to be in the cooler weather of a mountain range!!
Made with pieces of poplar. This mountain range scene has zero colors, paint, or stains added!! It’s all natural colors and no filters! I was inspired by the beautiful grain lines and just couldn’t cut them up or cover them! All natural was just too beautiful!
The frame is reclaimed South Georgia Cypress.
I picture it as a Smoky Mountains range on a cool afternoon, camping or hiking with my family. Where does this scene take you??
36”x16”

This is made with reclaimed pine of various textures and yellow poplar. A vintage pot holding a Gerbera daisy.
Simple design and can be hung inside, on a porch, exterior wall, garden wall, or side of a shed!! 4” potted plants can be switched out with ease with the changing seasons!

Green Hook Georgia
The frame is reclaimed yellow poplar with green and white paint. The background is a left over piece of beautiful naturally colored poplar and the Georgia is pine that I charred.
The hooks were hand made by a blacksmith in Marietta.

Red White & Blue Georgia

Capitalizing on the colors of paint on the boards. Red, White, & Blue.
The white frame is reclaimed yellow poplar and the inner trim as well. The red background and blue cut out GA are tongue and groove pine. 

The Atlanta Skyline!!
Buildings cut out of a sheet of reclaimed tin and framed with reclaimed cypress. Background is made of reclaimed tongue and groove pine. The blue color was on it already! Made for a nice cloud line and the knot hole just happened to be in the perfect spot for a moon!

Satin black cork board with slotted shelf and key hooks.

‘Woods of Georgia’ series.

Number 1:
Focusing on reclaimed wood types of native species of GA
This one has a pine frame with a chalk white pine slat background. The Georgia in the middle is made of Yellow Poplar from a cabin that was built in the late 1800s in North Georgia that burned.

Size: 29”x 24”

Number 2:
‘Woods of Georgia’ series.

Focusing on native tree species, this piece is made of Reclaimed Cypress, White Pine, and Red Oak. The frame is Cypress from the Altamaha River basin in Wayne County, GA. The background is White Pine that has been charred. The spots were created by a fungus creating what is known as “Pecky Pine.” The Georgia is Red Oak.
18”x21”

Number 3:
‘Woods of Georgia’ series.

Focusing on native tree species, this piece is made of Reclaimed Pond Pine and yellow poplar. The Georgia outline is made of Yellow poplar. The pine was struck by lightning near Sweetwater Creek in Appling County, GA

11” x 11” table top/shelf display

‘Woods of Georgia’ series
Number 4

Focusing on native tree species, this piece is made of reclaimed pine and cypress. The Pine backing is reclaimed pine slates off a barn, built around 1900 in Appling County, GA. The Georgia in the middle is Cypress from the Altamaha River basin in Wayne County, GA.

Number 5
‘Woods of Georgia’ series

Focusing on native tree species, this piece is made of Cedar and Reclaimed Pine. The Pine backing is reclaimed pine slates off a barn in Appling County, GA.

‘Woods of Georgia’ series
Number 6

Focusing on native tree species, this piece is made of reclaimed cedar. The cedar planks were salvaged from the remains of a cabin built in Cobb County in the late 1800s.
24”x18”

‘Woods of Georgia’ series
Number 7
Focusing on native tree species, this piece is made out of white pine and Yellow Poplar. The back board is white pine that has been charred to highlight the beauty in the wood grains. The outline of Georgia is Yellow poplar.
12”x8”

‘Woods of Georgia’ series

Number 8

Focusing on native tree species, this piece is made of Reclaimed Pine, Yellow Poplar, and American Chestnut. The white painted pine was salvaged from a barn in North East Georgia near Habersham County, The inside edging is Yellow Poplar reclaimed from a cabin built in Cobb County in the late 1800s. The Georgia outline is made of American Chestnut which used to be as numerous as pines are today. A blight wiped them out in the early 1900s. This piece predates the blight, making it minimum 200+ yrs old.

‘Woods of Georgia’ series
Number 9

Focusing on native tree species, this piece is made of reclaimed Yellow Poplar and Heart Pine.
The frame is Yellow Poplar salvaged siding. The back ground is Pine. It’s interior tongue and groove. The Georgia in the middle is Heart Pine barn wood.
The white, blue and red paint you see are all the original paint/colors!!

Woods of Georgia’ series
Number 10

Focusing on native tree species, this piece is made of White Pine slats (6) that have been charred to show the grains and details of the wood.

‘Woods of Georgia’ series
Number 11

Focusing on native tree species, this piece is made of reclaimed cedar, pine, cypress, and yellow poplar. The frame is Cypress that was cut from the Altamaha river basin in Wayne County GA. The background is made of cedar that I salvaged from a pile of old boards.
The GA is made of Yellow poplar and was finished with tung oil, to bring out the beautiful grains.

‘Woods of Georgia’ series
Number 12

Focusing on native tree species, this piece is made of reclaimed pine. The GA is made of painted tin off of a barn in Northeast GA. It’s backlit with LED lights with Atlanta marked with a light.

‘Woods of Georgia’ series
Number 13

Focusing on native tree species, this piece is made of Cedar, White pine, and yellow poplar. Finished with Tung Oil.

‘Woods of Georgia’ series
Number 14

Focusing on native tree species, this piece is made of Cedar, White pine, and yellow poplar. Finished with Tung Oil. The frame is pine. The inner trim is reclaimed yellow poplar. The GA is made of American Chestnut. The multi-colored pieces are made from the leftovers of #13!

‘Woods of Georgia’ series
Number 15

Focusing on native tree species, this piece is made of reclaimed cedar. And a lot of screws. a lot.