Using Some Reclaimed Wood for our Beams

One of the cooler parts of this project was visiting E.T. Moore up in Richmond (etmoore.com), a great warehouse full of reclaimed wood.  The owner was pretty funny -- he apparently is very protective of his wood and has to "decide" if he'll sell it to you, which honestly is kind of understandable given the amazing stuff he had.  He had some remarkable products, including massive beams that were some 400-years old (well, the wood was 400 years old, anyway).  Much of his stuff comes from the Northeast.  He also had a cool collection of antique cars, including a numbers-matching 1968 Shelby Cobra that Wyatt and I liked. :)

We ended up selecting beams from a hosiery factory in Utica, New York, to be used in the great room.

Here is a stack of beams where we were choosing ours:

The warehouse is absolutely huge and goes on forever.  I'm guessing it covers six or seven acres, maybe more.

They also carry tons of random stuff, like these things:

They had a bunch of fireplace mantles, too:

Check out this cool spiral staircase:

Finally, here they are installing the beams!  They had to lag-bolt them to the LVL beams to make sure they didn't fall, although honestly these things are so massive I don't think anything would take them down.  They had to bring in a crane to install the beams.