This armchair’s frame, constructed of beech or smoky walnut, is hand polished with wax to bring out the natural wood grain. 

This contemporary butcher block table, available in maple, oak, or walnut, the thick and sturdy top will take generations of use while the circular shape allows for easy mobility around it.

Made of solid white oak and dipped in oxide to darken their bottom rungs, these ladders are not meant for climbing.

This desk lamp combines oak and steel in a spare and elegant design that’s both functional and great looking.

These carefully designed and engineered maple planks can be stacked into a limitless variety of buildings, monuments, and other structural forms. 

Hand crafted of maple and birch, this classic baby rattle is painted with environmentally friendly, nontoxic milk paint.

When renovating this scullery in a 1930’s Colonial Revival residence in Westwood, Mass., builders Landmark Services restored the original glass-front cabinets and hardwood countertop.

A sliding barn door opens up the scullery completely while the galley layout ensures loading the washing machine won’t get in the way of scrubbing the pots.

Walls clad in painted shiplap planking are guaranteed to bring a hint of ocean breezes with them. The life-at-the-beach atmosphere is further augmented with porthole windows and a ladder like a ship’s companionway. 

Modern hardware ensures that unlike their 17th-century forebears, today’s Dutch doors not only function smoothly and reliably but are also weather- and draft-proof.

A custom-made white-oak Dutch door.

A limestone fireplace and hearth surrounded by a wall of American black walnut paneling.

A wall of golden rift-sawn maple paneling floats above a gas fireplace on an elongated hearth made of pietra serena, a gray Italian sandstone.

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze’s 1851 Washington Crossing the Delaware, one of the most visited paintings in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art was given a new frame. The basswood frame, hand carved and gilded, is a meticulous recreation of the original based on Mathew Brady’s photograph of the painting from 1864.

The frame’s imposing American eagle center crest with its shield, draped flags, and other patriotic symbols was hand carved in basswood.

An all-oak doorway, which includes salvaged 19th-century architectural elements, leads to the private quarters.

The Meeting House at Pleasant Hill is column-free thanks to the ingenious system of cantilevered oak trusses architect Micajah Burnett devised to support the roof and ceiling. The floor is ash; the painted benches and trim are poplar.

Reclaimed white oak in several different finishes is used for the floors, cabinets, open shelves, ceiling, and beams in the kitchen of a new Houston residence.

This iconic counting calendar is handmade and is made from a solid maple frame with porcelain beads on brass rods.

Crafted from sustainably harvested beech, toy gorillas Hanno and Hanno Jr. Thanks to strong bungee-cord joints, the sturdy wooden toys are infinitely posable and practically impossible to break.

“The Smile,” is made of cross-laminated tulipwood.

Both ends of “The Smile” provides open balconies with views of the neighboring Chelsea College of Arts.

Lined with the same tulipwood panels as the exterior, the interior of “The Smile” is illuminated at night with strip lighting that emphasizes its curving form.

American black walnut and limestone walls, concrete floors, and plaster ceilings define the living room.

A standing tree is reconfigured in Rouse to evoke a tree send out warning signals when sensing dangers such as the invasion of harmful insects.

Dreaming comprises a series of 16-foot-tall loops that connect with live ash trees to represent a kind of botanical cooperative system.

Veer uses fallen sections of trees to make a 50-foot-long web of interlocking screens that bob and weave back and forth between standing trees.

This bedroom features a wall clad in hardwood planks and a custom headboard and bed in burnished walnut.

Transform a closet with hardwood built-ins.

A red-oak newel post and handrail, stained to match existing treads and flooring, with balusters painted white to match risers and wainscoting.

Plain-sawn American white oak in the living-dining area in a Bay Area house.

In the master bedroom custom steel trusses span plain-sawn American white oak vaulted ceilings.

Simple industrial materials define the custom plain-sawn American white oak staircase; the sculpture is by Andy Vogt.

Solid-oak shapes coated in a water-based paint and packaged in a drawstring bag.

A perennial classic, this kids’ pull sled is built from kiln-dried northern hardwoods finished with clear water-based lacquer.

A 15¼-inch-high abstract carved-wood sculpture on a stone and wood base.

A 19th-century farmhouse kitchen in Dover, Massachusetts, installed a 16-foot long wood-framed folding window above the sink counter with gorgeous white oak countertops.

In the living room of an Austin, Texas, house, window walls are framed in white oak stained a warm honey color.

Painted oak-framed windows create a perfect light-filled breakfast nook in this Mill Valley, California, kitchen.

White oak slats allow for natural ventilation in the bunk alcove, whose built-in furniture was made by Simrel Achenbach of Descience Lab, as was all the custom millwork in the house.

Privacy in the master bedroom is provided by sliding solid-oak panels on the left and a custom white oak room divider that acts as a headboard on one side and a bookcase on the other.

A white-oak media wall in a New York City loft.

An oak-lined portal leads from the entry foyer to the living area; a small oak, marble, and fumed-mirror bar is recessed into the wall next to it.

A vintage Gio Ponti walnut bed presides over the master suite, the windows are surrounded with floor-to-ceiling oiled white-oak millwork, and the room features rift-cut white-oak floors.

Set against the predominantly white walls, the honey-color wood, complementary brass accents, and classic midcentury modern furniture give the airy spaces an impeccably tailored but unstuffy look.

A custom front door of a made of entirely recycled walnut creates an inviting focal point in the cool, creamy street façade of a La Jolla, CA, house.

For a house in Raleigh, NC, Appalachian Woodwrights custom made a handsome front door of walnut decorated with rolled steel accents. The cast-bronze door handle is by Rocky Mountain Hardware.

Made of white oak, the custom switchback staircase has open treads, which allow daylight from a second-story window-wall to flood the reading area below the main stairs in a Bennett Valley, California weekend house.

This under-stairs daybed, comprising a full-length twin mattress sitting on a painted hardwood base with pullout drawers, it’s like an elegant window-bunk on some old sailing ship.

The TRI Sugar/Salt Bowl, a triangular table centerpiece with a hand-cut dark American walnut lid with a natural oil finish.

This attractive Wooden Bowed Psaltery is made of maple and birch.

This black walnut hand-turned Champlain salad bowl has simple, elegant lines and is hand finished with non-toxic, food-safe, allergen-free walnut oil.

Handmade Picking Baskets are woven from strips of New England ash.

Animal Boxes—a bull, a bear, a walrus, a llama, a whale, and a rhino made of sustainably harvested new-growth beech wood.

Colorful solid-oak Balancing Blocks, faceted stone-size shapes to create your own sculpture.

A pair of closets with custom sliding doors in American black walnut in the entry hall of an Upstate New York weekend house.

Benjamin Moore “Decorator White” paint is used on the custom coffered ceiling, window surrounds, and other millwork—all poplar—in this restful upstate New York bedroom.

In the living room of a French Renaissance-style mansion in Hillsborough, CA, the coffered ceiling, window surrounds, and herringbone floor are all made of hickory.

Alder doors in the entry hall of a house in Minneapolis.

Tineke Triggs of Artistic Designs for Living hung a simple painted-poplar barn door between the living area and master bedroom in a Mill Valley, CA, farmhouse.

Handmade from replenishable Michigan-grown, kiln-dried basswood and printed with non-toxic, lead-free, child-safe inks.

A vacation house with a butterfly roof and 1-by-6-inch cypress boards have undergone shou sugi ban, the traditional Japanese method of charring wood so it becomes rot and insect resistant.

This breezeway also functions as a dining room. Everything from the flooring, ceiling beams and panels, cabinetry, trim work, and custom pieces of furniture are made from reclaimed ash trees.

Everything from the flooring, ceiling beams and panels, cabinetry, trim work, and custom pieces of furniture are made from reclaimed ash trees.

Ebony-stained oak bookshelves and wall and ceiling paneling contrast with the white epoxy resin floor in the library area of a renovated Hollywood Hills residence.

As the stairs spiral upward, they encircle a chandelier hanging from the ceiling on the top floor.

This three-story oak, poplar, and maple circular staircase is a new addition to a renovated 100-year-old Tudor Revival house in Long Island, NY.

A completely new white-oak and plaster staircase in a
gut-renovated Brooklyn townhouse.

Bleached-maple and oak staircase in New York City triplex.

Dark-stained oak floor, treads, and handrail in a New Jersey stair hall remodeled.

Free-form turnings—meaning each is unique—the bowls come in various sizes and finishes, including black or blonde, and blonde with black splatter or black with gold splatter.

Tapered kitchen hood in wood shiplap

This Seattle, WA breakfast nook includes a pair of long corner banquettes—deep leather cushions on sturdy white-oak and steel frames and rift-sawn stained white oak cabinetry and floors.

All the woodwork in this kitchen is clear-finish maple.

An unobtrusive coffered ceiling helps create low-key drama in the quietly sumptuous living room of an Atherton, CA house.

This spiral staircase, with treads of blue ash, risers of golden poplar, and bannisters of cherry, is located in the 1839 Trustees’ Office, one of several restored Pleasant Hill buildings that accommodate guests.

Etched Walnut Bow Tie

Stacked birch drawers, cupboards, and closets were used to create a staircase in a renovated Chicago loft.

The Main Room at the Barnes Foundation has white oak floors, windows, and millwork, and massive walnut benches.

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The living-room media center is housed behind rustic barn doors made of reclaimed red and white oak from 19th-century agrarian buildings.

American cherry clads the ceiling, floor, and walls of the Royal Academy of Music’s new Susie Sainsbury Theater.

Fiber-optic crystals are embedded among the cherry battens cladding the theater walls.

Painted poplar shiplap walls and built-in shelving in the guest room of a renovated Nantucket Island beach house.

A five-inch-thick reclaimed white oak beam makes a handsome vanity counter in the master bath of a renovated Chicago house.

The dark-stained walnut front door of a modern Tulsa, Oklahoma house.

A Dutch door in a custom house.

The red-painted front door of a renovated La Jolla, California house.

These Plant Pedestals are made from three pieces of beech wood that fit together with seamless lap joinery.

Crafted from sustainably harvested beech, the powerful yet gentle Ursa Bear is infinitely posable and practically impossible to break—an enduring classic that will withstand years of play.

This rectangle Tray, which features solid wood construction, metal-pinned joinery, and lashed cord handles.

Hardwood baby rattles made of white oak, walnut, and cherry are easily gripped in tiny hands, silky-smooth on teething gums, and entirely safe thanks to their non-toxic beeswax/oil finish.

Hardwood blocks set in blackened-steel frames to create a spectacular pair of room dividers in a Greenwich Village loft.

White oak is used for the kitchen screen, interior portico, and rift-sawn plank doors in the entry of an Austin, Texas house.

A slatted solid-walnut partition separates the dining area from the front entrance of a renovated midcentury house.

The Vortex, the red-oak-paneled lobby of the new Bloomberg European Headquarters in London.

Chris Currie, a project designer in Lake Flato Architects’ San Antonio office, relaxes by hand carving wooden spoons and other utensils.

Examples of Chris Currie’s hand-carved utensils include an oak spoon (left) and a series of scoops, spoons, and ladles (center and right) carved from a single piece of sinker cypress.

Walnut fireplace, paneling, bookshelves, and cabinetry in the Georgian-style library of a residence.

A walnut fireplace in the den of a Cape Cod-style house in Minnesota.

A custom fireplace with a cherry mantel and side columns and black-granite surround in the library of a New York City apartment.

A frame in solid black walnut. Featured art by Tamon George.

A frame in solid cherry. Featured art by Michelle Solobay.

A frame in solid ash. Featured art by Michelle Solobay.

Poplar siding lines the walls of a living room in Atherton, CA, designed by New York–based architect Rebecca Asher.

Poplar siding on the master bathroom walls provides a warm contrast with the white tub and the stone-tile floor.

Tongue-and-groove hardwood walls create a relaxed yet crisply tailored look, especially when painted. Falmouth, Maine–based designer Linda Banks paneled the great room in her own home with poplar boards, “which take paint very well,” she notes.

This custom maple partition in a Manhattan micro apartment by Allen + Killcoyne Architects demonstrates, if the slats are made of hardwood, you get the beauty and character of the material as a decorative bonus.

This San Francisco residence by Feldman Architecture, a kids’ play area effortlessly transforms into a guest room thanks to a Murphy bed and a seven-foot-wide painted hardwood barn door.

Along with their decorative appeal, classic louvred hardwood shutters like these custom models shown with a Salt and Pepper finish, allow for control over ventilation and light.

The master bath in a Dallas house by Modern Craft Construction features a barn door and accent wall both made of walnut.

A black walnut barn door gives easy access to a hall closet in an Aspen condominium remodeled by Menendez Architects.

Self-adhesive oak planks from the Rustick Wall Co. bring a country vibe to a den.

A feature wall clad in burnished walnut planks.

Quarter-Sawn-Oak Mouldings

Floorboard-Style Hardwood Planks Underfoot and Overhead

Solid Hardwood, Stained-Oak Interior Doors

The hallway in a newly constructed house by Murphy & Co. Design, Buffalo, MN, features birch crown moldings, baseboards, casings, and column trim painted the same color as the walls, while the floor is rift-sawn white oak.

The renovation of a house by Edina, Minnesota–based architect Meriwether Felt, included fitting the master bath with new stained cherry crown moldings, baseboards, and window and door casings.

Transforms an aging room into a dazzling showcase

In Denver, a traditional-style double front door, custom made by Sun Mountain, Inc., combines alder plank-panels, stiles, and rails with glass and bronze hardware.  

Filigreed fireplace mantel

The Music Center at Strathmore in Baltimore, Md. is a masterpiece to the ears and the eyes.

More than a century, rich, hand-carved oak moulding and paneling have adorned the dining room of The Hermitage in Norfolk, Va.

Victorian exuberance and extravagance abound in the Bishop’s Palace, Galveston, Tx. Built in 1892, hand-carved hardwood mouldings and detailed hardwood floors and ceilings continue to astound visitors.

Reminiscent of the 17th-century England, hardwood floors and decorative moulding have welcomed guests to the Bishop’s palace for over 100 years.

Poplar lineals add great architectural interest

Textured hardwood mantel transforms plain to elegant

Poplar ceiling beams add interest and beauty

Dark stained poplar lineals bring a more formal look to this library

Decorative trimwork is both practical and beautiful

Hardwood’s warmth makes this great room glow

Make a statement with hardwood architectural details

American cherry spiral staircase and moulding

Red oak staircase and entry

Custom staircase with oak treads and rails

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