The Work of Art Door

by barrett | Oct 10, 2015

A customer came to us with a very fun custom door project. This kind of “quadruple bypass” door (which sounds more like a heart surgery than a door build), is not something you see every day. It’s certainly one-of-a-kind (at least until the rest of the design...

Floating Reclaimed Wood Bathroom Sink Base

by barrett | Oct 7, 2015

Here is a reclaimed oak top for a bathroom vanity we built from a very old oak door buck. Most of our door bucks come from 200-300 yr old barns in Pennsylvania. The towel rack below is made from other similar woods from our yard. The brackets and everything needed to...

Cherry Kitchen Island, Bar Tops, Gate & Wall Caps

by barrett | Oct 2, 2015

Cherry has always been an amazing hardwood to work with. We have a very special pile of cherry that came from the back yards of Johnny Cash and Mel Tillis many years back. This lumber is so beautiful. We had the opportunity to do many different projects in this home...

Tobacco Barn Grey Double Sliding Doors

by barrett | Sep 23, 2015

Here is a beautiful pair of bi-part sliding barn doors we created for a customer. These are made from our tobacco barn grey material. These doors are made with our Tobacco Barn Grey and the hardware was painted flat black to provide a great contrast within the...

Mushroom Wood End Table with Organic Steel Base

by Thomas Porter | Sep 21, 2015

Here’s one of our mushroom wood end tables with an “organic” steel base made to look like tree branches. We hand-make these bases in the blacksmith shop here at Porter Iron...

M Base Steel & Reclaimed Wood Kitchen Island

by barrett | Sep 17, 2015

Our loblolly pine stock from Maine made a fantastic island top for this customer’s kitchen. We had our boys in the Porter Iron Works shop make an “M” style industrial i-beam base to support the island and used the existing cabinetry to support the...

Reclaimed Mixed Hardwoods Table & Bench with Wrapped Box Beam

by barrett | Sep 15, 2015

Here is an inviting space decorated with one of our custom dining tables. This one is made from mixed reclaimed hardwoods from the Kentucky/Tennessee region. We also had the pleasure of creating the box beams above in the photos as...

Walnut Pallet-Style Rolling Coffee Table

by barrett | Sep 14, 2015

Here is a fun little project we did for a customer that wanted us to create a walnut pallet-style coffee table that rolled on industrial sized...

Rolling Steel Seats with Zebra Stripe Plywood Tops

by Thomas Porter | Aug 22, 2015

These seats are made from tube steel with steel casters to allow them to roll easily. The tops are made from reclaimed plywood set on the side grain and laminated together. Finished in different lacquer...

Chopwood Mercantile Rolling Retail Cart

by Thomas Porter | Jul 28, 2015

We built this kitchen island style rolling retail cart for Chopwood Mercantile in CO. We built multiple retail displays with this style to showcase their products and create sales areas. This wood is from the original factory floor of the Pabst Blue Ribbon beef...

Reclaimed Hand Hewn White Oak Outdoor Mantel

by barrett | Jul 6, 2015

An outdoor fireplace needs love just as much as a fireplace inside the home.  In our opinion, there’s no better way of loving on your fireplace than hanging a nice beefy hand hewn beam for a mantel. This giant white oak beauty was finished with a linseed oil...

Right This Minute TV Show Set Wall

by Thomas Porter | Jun 22, 2015

Here is a picture of the backdrop we did for the set of “Right This Minute” television show. This is our tobacco barn brown with a smooth face and multi-tone vandyke flat lacquer...

YAP USA Scottsdale

by barrett | Apr 20, 2015

YAP USA Scottsdale is a pet store directed towards man’s best friend. Their location in the Scottsdale Quarter includes a lot of fun projects made with different reclaimed materials from Porter Barn Wood.  The store is super fun along with products full of...

Wormy Poplar Guitar Body

by Thomas Porter | Feb 26, 2015

Here’s a beautiful reclaimed wormy poplar guitar body Thomas built for a customer. This wormy poplar is over 250+ years old. Sounds...

Live Edge Oak Slab with Crank Base and Reclaimed Wood Bench

by Thomas Porter | Feb 21, 2015

One of our large live edge oak slabs we surfaced to fit this customer’s cast iron crank base. We also fabricated a simple reclaimed wood bench to go with...

Community Tables with Steel Base

by Thomas Porter | Feb 21, 2015

Blue Hound Kitchen & Cocktails

by barrett | Jan 1, 2015

The Blue Hound’s patio got a little facelift, with brand new patio furniture custom fabricated from Porter Barn Wood / Porter Iron Works.  The reclaimed oak table and bench tops are designed specifically for outdoor use and have tenoned breadboard ends. The...

Vintage Partners

by barrett | Dec 30, 2014

Vintage Partners is a commercial real estate development and investment company located in Phoenix, AZ.  Their office is located on the 2nd floor of the Biltmore Fashion Park near the shopping center’s offices. Architect Hayes McNeil incorporated some of our...

R Salon

by barrett | Dec 5, 2014

R Salon is a fun and talented salon in Phoenix that let us design some stylist stations for them. Once we started doing the stations, we just kept adding on more fun projects, and still are. In one room we have the mushroom wood wall and the industrial sliding...

Reception Desk – Hand Hewn Beams

by barrett | Dec 4, 2014

This reclaimed hand hewn beam reception desk was an exciting project.  As simplistic as it might look, the desk has some intricate mechanics.  The desk features a mixture of reclaimed hand hewn beams, a steel counter top for the receptionist and custom hardware made...