Slab Happy

Posted: July 21st, 2010 | Filed under: Building Materials, Shoppin' and Junkin' | Tags: , | 5 Comments »

I’ve been wanting to incorporate some live edge slabs in here since we bought the place…it just seems to fit…and with these trees toppling around me, sooner or later, one of them might just be the right kind for milling something fab.  I gave up on my dreams of a Nakashima dining table long ago, but have moved on to other slabsessions.

Back when I still read Apartment Therapy, I got all slobbery over this post…especially if I had about $13k laying around.  I’d love to have any of these as my headboard…maybe then we’d finally get our bed off the floor…one can dream.  These first two from Meyer and Wells and Urban Hardwoods are my faves….

Photos via AT

Then there’s this one ….

Photo via JC Sterling

and of course, the classic….

via Nakashima Woodworker

Photos via Live Edge Design

Another avenue is to possibly incorporate a slab in one of the bathroom renovations….the half bath might be the most feasible one.

Photo via Western Art and Architecture


Photo via Design Milk

And remember when I so loved this?

I still do….breakfast bar/backsplash…ahhhh…gorge.

Currently, the only wooden benefit from these trees falling around us is lots of firewood…..and some stumpytime.

Photo via Design Milk

We’ve got quite a collection of similar stump stools and tables going now….but it’s the slabs I covet.  One day….


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5 Comments on “Slab Happy”

  1. 1 the brick house said at 9:49 PM on July 21st, 2010:

    near my work there are all these crazy chainsaw carvers who make stupid bears and shit…but they also mill slabs. $4 a linear foot for cedar or pine.

    I’ve been planning on getting three slabs for the house. two for headboards and one for a bar top outside by our fire pit.

    i’ve been patiently waiting and checking in with these guys. gotta say they go on “mountain time” which is like the slowest non deadline style of work I’ve ever seen.

    Soon. Very soon I hope.

    Also. That kitchen. I STILL LOVE that shit. It’s really inspiring my back bathroom.

  2. 2 admin said at 10:31 AM on July 22nd, 2010:

    So with ya….bar top near the fire pit will be cool too…how will you treat it for outdoors?

  3. 3 Alexis L., The Studioist said at 10:08 AM on July 23rd, 2010:

    I love the bathroom countertop. The lines are perfect.

  4. 4 erin@designcrisis said at 12:44 PM on July 23rd, 2010:

    I love all the slabs, but the most minimal ones are nearest and dearest to my heart — like #3. Clean, restrained, but still rough and wild. It’s the perfect dichotomy.

  5. 5 nkp said at 10:21 AM on July 26th, 2010:

    Perfection. I covet these as well. I’ve found a local yokel on craigslist who does these for cheap. I think a drive to the N. GA mountains is in order.