Few details transform a room like a reclaimed wood mantel. A single weathered beam above the fireplace becomes the anchor of the whole space — part architecture, part sculpture, part story. Where a new, machine-milled board reads as filler, a reclaimed timber carries a century of character you simply can’t manufacture: saw marks, nail holes, checking, and a patina earned over decades. If you’re [...]
On a quiet stretch of Lake Superior shoreline near Grand Marais, a family cabin that had anchored three generations of memories has been thoughtfully reborn. This Grand Marais lake retreat replaces a beloved generational cabin on the same site — honoring a long family history while setting the stage for the memories still to come. It’s the kind of project that only comes together when a [...]
Rough sawn lumber is wood exactly as it comes off the sawmill blade — cut to size but not planed smooth, so it keeps the texture, the full dimension, and the character that surfaced lumber loses. Woodworkers love it because it’s often cheaper and gives you more wood to work with; builders and designers love it because that saw-textured face brings a warmth and ruggedness you [...]
Reclaimed wood is one of the most beautiful, durable, and sustainable materials you can build with — and one of the most misunderstood. It’s wood with a past: timber first cut from old-growth forests in the 1800s and early 1900s, put to work in a barn, factory, or warehouse for a century or more, and then carefully salvaged, cleaned, dried, and remilled into flooring, [...]
Individually, they’re beautiful. Together, they’re unforgettable. Reclaimed wood paneling and box beamscombine into what might be the single most impactful ceiling you can build — a fully clad, timber-crossed expanse of authentic old-growth wood that turns an ordinary room into the kind of space people stop and look up in. It’s the ceiling you see in high-end lake homes, timber-frame great rooms, and Parade [...]
Few details transform a room like a ceiling full of character, and reclaimed wood box beams are the fastest way to get there. A box beam gives you the look of a massive, hand-hewn timber overhead — the warmth, the patina, the century-old story — without the weight, cost, or structural headache of a solid beam. That’s why builders, architects, designers, and homeowners reach [...]
Reclaimed wood vs engineered wood flooring is one of the biggest decisions homeowners and custom builders make when they want the look of real wood underfoot. The short answer: engineered wood flooring is cheaper up front and handles moisture well, but reclaimed solid wood wins where it matters most over the life of a home — durability, refinishing, and character. At Manomin Resawn Timbers, [...]
Every so often a project comes along that reminds you why you fell in love with reclaimed wood in the first place. “Hand Hewn” is one of those. Set on a quiet lake in Minnesota, it’s a barnhouse that walks the line between past and present — Minnesota vernacular farmstead meets a little western swagger, comfortable and elegant all at once. The main house, [...]
Reclaimed wood has quietly become one of the most sought-after materials in Minnesota building and design. Walk through a Parade of Homes model in the Twin Cities, a lake home on Gull or Minnetonka, or a boutique hotel lobby in Minneapolis, and you’ll almost always find it: hand-hewn box beams overhead, wide-plank antique floors underfoot, a fireplace mantel milled from a barn that stood [...]
When you search for reclaimed wood flooring for sale, you're really looking for two things: real, honest wood, and a company you can trust to deliver it. At Manomin Resawn Timbers, that's what we've been doing for twenty years. We're not a reseller or an online catalog — we reclaim the wood, mill it ourselves, and sell it directly to homeowners, builders, and remodelers. [...]
If you want a floor with real presence, wide plank reclaimed wood flooring is hard to beat. Wide boards show off the grain, color, and history of antique wood far better than narrow strips can, and because the wood is reclaimed old-growth, you get that look with genuine durability behind it. Here's what wide plank actually means, why reclaimed wood is the right material [...]
There's a particular hush that falls over a room the first time someone steps onto a reclaimed wood floor. They slow down. They look at their feet. Sometimes they crouch to run a hand across a board that was milled from a beam that stood in a Minnesota barn through a hundred winters. That reaction — part recognition, part wonder — is the whole [...]