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New! Commercial Collection of Sustainable Wood Flooring & Paneling

Our new Commercial Collection features a range of our favorite wood flooring and paneling, carefully selected and produced to ensure their durability and suitability for commercial use, while retaining their unique character and beauty.

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Sustainable Wood Flooring for Commercial Interiors: 8 Considerations for Durability & Performance

When it comes to designing commercial interiors, incorporating sustainable elements has become a top priority for many designers. One impactful way to achieve this is by choosing reclaimed and FSC® (Forest Stewardship Council) certified wood or engineered wood flooring. Adding wood flooring into a commercial interior design adds value, ambiance and sustainability to a project while promising durability for high traffic environments.

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Anthology Woods Joins Mattoboard’s Digital Material Board Tool

Designers and architects can find several of Anthology Wood’s products on Mattoboard, a new 3D digital sampling tool, including our Deep Sumi Cedar, Sawmill Oak and Surfrider Redwood. Designers can drag and drop our reclaimed wood paneling and flooring samples onto their boards, or add them as a background.

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Design Tips for Walnut Flooring and Cladding

Our recovered walnut flooring and cladding is salvaged from walnut orchards on the west coast, up-cycling a product that would otherwise turn into woodchips, or even burned. Instead, we turn this beautiful wood into profiled wood paneling and flooring ready to install into commercial and residential projects. By repurposing this wood, it is given a new life, which helps to reduce waste and the need for new resources.

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All About Cedar: Sustainable Wood for Cladding & Decking

Cedar is an exceptional species of wood; it is found all over the world and encompasses a range of different species. It is resistant to insects and disease, and can be used to build furniture, saunas, decking, siding and more.

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How to Install ThinClad Thin Reclaimed Wood Wall Paneling

Our ThinClad wood wall paneling is something special. It combines the durability and effectiveness fo solid wood tongue and groove paneling with a lightweight, economical dimension. Each plank is 3/8” thick and has a tongue and groove profile, making installation a breeze and the finished look stunning.

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5 Ways to Add reclaimed Wood to Your Office Design

Adding wood to an office design has more than aesthetic benefits. Wood is a natural, renewable building material that has notable health and wellness effects for indoor spaces.

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5 Tips for Designing Interiors with Dark Wood

Feeling dark and moody? Sometimes we need to embrace the dark things in life, and adding dark and black wood walls to an interior design can really make a bold statement that exudes sophistication.

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8 Ways to Integrate Wood into Food Retail & Market Designs

Designing a food retail space that is easy to navigate, enjoyable and spacious is important for the shoppers’ overall experience. These spaces need to be designed in a way that relates to their customers and to the products they carry. Adding reclaimed wood is a wonderful option for adding natural warmth and comfort.

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LEED Credits for Reclaimed & Sustainable Wood: Materials for Green Building

The Leadership in Energy and Design (LEED) is a green building certification program that evaluates the environmental performance of buildings, including the design, constructions, operation and maintenance. There are many ways to integrate reclaimed and sustainable wood into LEED projects, to encourage materials cycling and improved indoor air quality for happier, healthier buildings.

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Anthology Woods Publishes Red-List Approved Declare Label for Solid Wood Products

In a continued effort to offer enhanced sustainability and transparency certifications, Anthology Woods has published our first Declare Label for our Reclaimed Solid Wood Flooring & Paneling, with Unfinished, Oil Finish & Low-VOC Poly Finish. This label displays that our products fall under the Red-List Approved Category, ensuring that our wood flooring & paneling promotes healthy indoor air quality and does not contain harmful chemicals or substances.

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Anthology Woods Publishes Health Product Declarations for Reclaimed Wood Products

Anthology Woods is proud to announce newly published Health Product Declarations for four of our reclaimed wood cladding products. HPDs are a transparency documentation that discloses product data related to sustainability and health within the building environment. We are excited to be a part of a greener building future!

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Source Story: Bidwell Walnut Salvaged from Orchards and Roadsides

Bidwell Walnut (Claro Walnut) is a deciduous hardwood tree native to the upper Sacramento River basin. The unique lumber is known for its rich, swirling colors, and is coveted particularly by gun stock manufactures and master craftsmen. The wood’s history begins with John Bidwell.

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European Fumed Oak: Getting this Antique Look with Reclaimed Wood

Fuming, or “smoking,” wood (predominantly oak species) is a process that involves exposing the wood to ammonia gas, which reacts with the tannins. Learn more about about the history of this type of wood and how to style it in your design project.

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Source Story: Heritage Oak

Reclaimed Spirit

The rich history of our forefathers can be felt through each plank of our Heritage Oak wood. Many Eastern farmers upon staking their claim would build and live in their barns first before building their homes. To them barns represented the farms income and where their livestock lived. In this region of the US, Oak trees were the most common tree to be found, so this is why most barns in Eastern US were constructed of either red or white oak planks. The wood from an Oak Tree is strong and hard, with a high tannin content making it resistant to both insect and fungal attack. Despite their rich legacies and strong timber frames, so many of these structures have been left empty as new generations head to the city abandoning the old family farm.

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Products for Projects: Custom Bar Tops, Tables & Cladding at Milk Money Restaurant

Our approach is different: we create, mill and finish each product to order and can work with your specific design specifications. Milk Money Bar and Restaurant is a great example of this process, where we worked with their team to find the right product, providing ceiling cladding, wall paneling, table tops and a stunning 90-foot custom bar top that we fabricated from beautiful salvaged white oak.

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Chevron & Herringbone: History of These Popular Parquet Wood Flooring Patterns

In recent years, chevron and herringbone patterned wood flooring has become extremely popular, and for good reason. The geometric patterns create visual interest within a space and offers a luxurious European feel. But where do these patterns come from? Both have curious stories that span the architectural, textile design and art worlds.

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Source Story: Grandstand Fir & Pine

Most of us have shared memories of filing into our gymnasiums for school rallies, basketball games and dreaded gym class. Nowadays most bleachers are made of aluminum or concrete, but perhaps you remember sneaking a piece of elastic chewing gum underneath wooden bleachers when the teacher wasn’t looking. At the time, you probably wouldn’t have been impressed that these bleachers were high quality wide plank, long length clear pine and fir that make incredible flooring and paneling. But now, you might!

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Source Story: Smokehouse Blend

Stepping into an old tobacco barn, you’re entering into another age. Smoke still clings to the blackened walls and the air tastes sweet and musty. Our Smokehouse Blend pays homage to these structures, usually built of pine timbers, and embodies the rich history of that era.

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