To help save the arts program at St. Helens High School, we donated crates of scrap wood for their shop class. The scrap pieces included Western Walnut, Cherry, Maple, Madrone, and Eastern Walnut. Pictured below are students creating breadboards for one of their projects.

Fresh on the floor this week is our Reclaimed Bench in Cedar wood. The British Columbia government has been decommissioning fire roads to restore watershed and improve habitat. As part of that project old cedar bridges are being deconstructed. We used that Cedar lumber to create our Reclaimed Bench. Overall Dimensions are 59"L x 18"W x 18"H. For more information on the Reclaimed Cedar Bench click here.  

We are featured in the Oregon Home Green Living 2011 issue for our environmentally friendly butcherblock countertops. Our butcherblock countertops are available in edge grain and end grain. Click here to see our standard woods that are either FSC ®        certified or locally harvested woods. We use a natural oil finish that is food safe and very durable. For more information on our butcherblock countertops click here.

The FREEDOM Film Special Screening will be in Portland on August 5th, 7 pm at the Clinton Street Theater 2522 SE Clinton Street. You can meet the filmmakers, tour the FREEDOM bus, and participate in an after screening debate and discussion about what is being done in Portland to become more sustainable. Watch the film trailer and learn more about the film below. 

If you've stopped into our showroom recently you might have noticed the adorable little green plants that we have accenting our furniture. These are air plants, also known as Tillandsia.

Air plants are epiphytes which means that they don't need soil to grown, instead they absorb water and nutrients through their leaves.

We recently had several bookcases that we wanted to find good homes for. We created a post on Facebook asking our followers to nominate local nonprofits who they thought could benefit from a bookcase donation. We had such a wonderful response and were able to quickly find a host of happy recipients. The nonprofits who received our bookcases are:

We are excited to announce an upcoming benefit for Sisters Of The Road at the Joinery! Sisters Of The Road is a community building organization located in Old Town/Chinatown here in Portland and has been working to promote systemic solutions for homelessness and social isolation since 1979.

Located in Milwaukie, Oregon not too far from us here in Woodstock, Bob's Red Mill is one of the nation's leading miller of healthy whole grain foods. Bob's Red Mill was founded in 1978 by Bob Moore, in a historic flour mill near Oregon City.

From the company website,

We are thrilled to add a new toy maker to our stock of beautiful, unique wooden toys. Wood Toy Shop is located right here in Portland and makes a whole range of absolutely adorable toys that are perfect for children and adults alike. Among our favorites are the ingenious 6 piece Wooden Train and the clever Elephant Parade.