Furniture using wood reclaimed

Much of the wood used in railroads has been heavily treated with chemicals, such as creosote, which is known to seep into the ground and contaminate the soil or water in the immediate area — which would make the use of such wood in furniture a bad choice. However, I've also heard that some railway trestles aren't treated with any wood preservative at all. With the rise in popularity of reclaimed wood for modern home designs, how do you confirm that this wood is safe?”

As part of the design project, 30 architects and designers each designed a piece of furniture using wood reclaimed from used barriques, 230-liter wine barrels. Then, the San Patrignano community’s members who work in the woodshop made the wood barrels into the furniture pieces, allowing them to learn a trade that will help them to become a part of society again. A total of six designs will be awarded prizes, three designed by competitors under 26 years of age and three by competitors over 26 years of age. Award-winning designs will be produced by the woodwork workshop at San Patrignano and their designers will have royalty rights. In addition to these prizes, an SCM award will also be given. For more information, please visit Wood said typical furniture today is sized for “McMansions” and those who live in city apartments and condos tend to need smaller, more customized pieces. In addition to the benches, he makes a variety of tables and other pieces using steel and polished concrete as well.Wood appeared on the PBS show "Colonial House," which challenges people to live like settlers for months.

Wood Recycling means reclaiming the wood in furniture to be used once again as material for another furniture.  Recycling or reclaiming wood  might actually involve a more elaborate and expensive process than just felling a 50-year old tree somewhere in Brazil and making boards from them.  I read somewhere that recycling involved grinding the wooden furniture to sawdust levels and gluing them with special adhesives to form what is called plywood and particle boards. Recycling wood can be better explained as reclaimed wood.  That means wood from some previously crafted thing being disembodied and made into another.  I don’t mean re-use.  Re-use connotes taking apart furniture and using the same item, say a headboard, to be used as the headboard in another furniture.  Like those wooden ship navigation wheels that get displayed in living rooms – from a functional existence to a decorative item.  There are plenty of those around.