Beams into Boards
Originally posted: Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Our design called for the removal of a portion of the upper floor, to visually connect the two main working areas of the office. Yesterday, the big upper floor beams came out, opening an 18’ x 25’ hole. Now, the light is pouring down into the forum area, as we expected it would, and it looks great. The 3x15 floor beams, all vintage 1948 Douglas Fir, were hauled off to a home sawmill in Indianola and sawn into 1x15 boards. We’re going to bring the boards back and use them to clad a 35’ long “feature wall” that runs from our main entry to the middle of the office. It’s a nice way to take some beautiful old wood and reuse it in a totally different way. The feature wall will hold a 30’ long graphic timeline of our firm’s 24-year history.
