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Where to Buy Reclaimed Wood Flooring

Rustic modern kitchen with reclaimed wood flooring
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Reclaimed wood flooring gives a home a feeling of charm, tradition, and timelessness. The reclaimed wood flooring or its wood source might be decades old, aged elsewhere in a barn, bowling alley, or warehouse. Reclaiming the wood and transferring it to your home instantly transfers those decades and that sense of character to your home.

Much of the reclaimed wood flooring that you find isn't reclaimed at all. While it might be attractive and a welcome addition to your home, this will be faux reclaimed flooring—new flooring, not old flooring. Nor are you likely to find suitable reclaimed wood flooring on your own from its primary source. Even if you did, removing and preparing the wood for reuse is best done by companies with milling operations.

So, the best route is to find reclaimed wood flooring through established channels. This is a list of reclaimed flooring suppliers who offer their products to retail customers and who will ship throughout the U.S.

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    Aged Woods

    Reclaimed hardwood timber floor in kitchen.
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    This Pennsylvania-based reclaimed wood supplier most definitely ships: all throughout the U.S. and, according to their site, Israel, Singapore, England, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and presumably any other international destination.

    Reclaimed engineered wood flooring may sound like an oxymoron, but Aged Woods has just that: 3 mm of reclaimed antique wood laid over a nine-layer substrate of plywood. Like other prefinished floorings, this product receives seven coats of aluminum oxide finish. The beauty of reclaimed wood with the practicality of engineered flooring.

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    Appalachian Woods

    Based in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, Jonas Hochstetler and the family's company Appalachian Woods sells reclaimed wood flooring, lumber and beams, furniture, and millwork. Products are available both from their Stuarts Draft, Virginia location (near Charlottesville, VA) and online. 

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    Cochran’s Lumber

    Located in the heart of reclaimed wood territory, Berryville, Virginia, Cochran's Lumber has been in business since 1978, producing reclaimed and newly milled hardwood flooring.

    Cochran's Lumber machine- and hand-finishes its premium reclaimed wood flooring. Its massive 60,000 square foot shop is able to handle all floor milling operations. Cochran's Lumber takes wood from old barns and buildings and "retains the wood’s patina and 'story,' while re-milling the boards to meet [a client's] specific project specifications," according to the company website.

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    Elmwood Reclaimed Timber

    Elmwood is based in Peculiar, Missouri, a small community just south of Kansas City. Odds are with you that you'll find just the kind of reclaimed flooring you want; after all, Elmwood has one of the biggest selections of reclaimed wood around.

    Like other companies in the industry, Elmwood's mainstay is with high-profile commercial projects (The Gap, L.L. Bean, Starbucks, and more like that), but they also do supply the residential market. For the truly authentic look, you can even get antique cut nails, tin, and stone from them.

    Prices aren't listed because products change so frequently. But get on their mailing list for the latest prices.

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    Jarmak Corporation

    Jarmak has the right pedigree: offices and lumberyard both in Massachusetts and a sawmill in Pennsylvania.

    Jarmak has a number of the popular standbys of the reclaimed wood industry, like antique barn oak and heart pine. But you'll also find items unique to Jamak like their reclaimed Boston Harbor White Oak, which was "harvested from decaying buildings along Boston’s waterfront," according to their site. 

    And if you aren't interested in commodity floors with boards that seem to be little more than 3 inches long, you'll be happy to know that Jarmak also offers reclaimed wood flooring in lengths up to 16 feet for their Harbor Oak.

    Most of Jarmak's wood is between 200 and 500 years old, and they select wood from historic industrial buildings across the U.S. As with other reclaimed wood companies, their product line is continually changing, so be sure to check in frequently to see what's new at Jarmak.

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    Reclaiming the Past / Green Family Materials

    Tennessee-based Reclaiming the Past, also known as Green Family Materials, began when 13-year-old Tom Green, Jr. helped his father demolish a building in West Point, Mississippi. The rest, as they say, is history. It also helps to have a family name that fits well with their eco-friendly mission.

    Green Family Materials does way more than supply reclaimed flooring—they have tin and barn siding, beams, brick, and more). But they're still most proud of their antique heart pine, oak, maple, and barn wood reclaimed floors.

    Diana Younts of Green Family Materials says that her company most assuredly ships within the Continental United States—as well as Hawaii, Europe, and perhaps any other place where there may be a willing buyer for unique/antique flooring.

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    Sylvan Brandt

    Like Aged Woods, Sylvan Brandt is another reclaimed wood flooring mill and distributor located in Pennsylvania. Begun in 1960 by founder Sylvan Brandt, this company is now run by son Dean and takes on the multi-pronged job of locating, pulling, milling, and distributing reclaimed wood floor. And yes, according to representative Genna Antes, Sylvan Brandt does ship all throughout the United States.

    Much of its flooring is actually derived from flooring: the attics of historic homes. So the surface you see is the original surface. One line from their site sums it up well: "[W]e don't offer perfection, but rather the beauty of imperfection."

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    K.D. Woods Company

    The K.D. Woods Company began when Barry Stup first observed barns in Maryland and Pennsylvania built with chestnut, "one of the rarest and beautiful native hardwoods," according to the company site. Stup decided that this commodity was too valuable to waste, and so he began The Woods Company.

    Karen Durning took over the residential sales segment and marketing assets from the company in 2015, thus transforming the company into The K.D. Woods Company. Karen's passion for reclaimed wood and for serving clients is evident.

    If you're looking for a wide range of products, you'll find it with K.D. Woods Company: stair parts, white, yellow, and heart pines, and even reclaimed engineered flooring (species: oak, walnut, and heart pine).