This might come as a revelation to you, but reclaimed wood is really catching on with Bakersfield residents, who apparently love its natural look and how it spruces up their home décor. It’s making definite inroads as a fashionable way of upgrading weathered wood and expressing your individual style. Reclaimed wood products are genuine eye-catchers whether it’s part of a wall, your cabinets, or – yes! – your windows. Think you’d benefit from some tips on using of reclaimed wood? We have 8 top-notch ideas for you – all applied to marvelous effect in Bakersfield homes.

1.Windows of Reclaimed Wood

For the first time ever, you can have reclaimed wood as a window treatment. Sunburst Shutters now offers a plantation shutter fashioned from the best possible reclaimed wood. As a matter of fact, Sunburst is the sole company offering you reclaimed wood shutters in the Bakersfield area. We got our hands on the reclaimed wood you want and used it to create a louvered shutter that’s as functional as it is beautiful.

Reclaimed wood can be a window treatment like no other. It makes a difference, certainly, that your reclaimed wood shutters are a masterpiece in themselves. And Sunburst ensures that they are. You’ll find there’s as much to love about their operation as there is to love about the way they calm the mood of a room. Tilt the louvers open to brighten up the room’s interior. And tilt them closed to better reveal the weathered look of reclaimed wood on your window. Find out more about reclaimed wood for windows in Bakersfield

2. Reclaimed Wood and Walls

Nothing brings the outside into your home as wonderfully as a reclaimed wood wall. Reclaimed wood paneling adds subtle drama to a wall and adds a warm feel to the room. It makes no difference whether you have a bookcase, fireplace, artwork, or TV to accentuate, a reclaimed wood wall will look amazing behind it and create precisely the effect you’d hoped for.

3. Floors of Reclaimed Wood

Looking to redo a floor in your house? Any wood flooring can make a room feel warmer, but flooring of reclaimed wood has a unique beauty that reveals the time – typically decades – the wood has remained in its natural habitat. No matter if you’re a bona fide nature lover or someone who’s simply drawn to the look of weathered wood, you’ll go into your happy dance for sure when you see what a reclaimed wood floor can do to give your home a new lease on life.

4. Reclaimed Wood for Cabinets

Now’s the time to give your kitchen cabinets a makeover with reclaimed wood. It’s the natural way to improve the warmth and congeniality of your kitchen. Each panel of reclaimed wood relates a rich story – of many years hidden away in an old building, maybe, or in the crumbling structure of a barn or fence. And something of that narrative will endure in your reclaimed wood cabinets, called forth every time you and others admire them.

5. Reclaimed Wood Makes a Great Table

A tabletop made of reclaimed wood can lend a trendy, assuredly unique look to your dining room or home office. Unite its wood tones with your décor scheme to achieve a consistent, agreeable look that comforts you – at the same time it takes your guests’ breath away!

6. Your Bookcases Cry Out for Reclaimed Wood

Aside from what other things we might think about them, books make excellent decorative pieces. Leather, vinyl, buckram, or paperbound books and those with colorful dust jackets look especially pleasing on a coffee or end table, on a bookshelf, or in a large bookcase. Their pleasing variety is both distinguished and unified in bookcases of real wood, too. And bookcases of reclaimed wood, with their natural colors, knots, holes, scratches, and other traits, provide an especially distinctive, one-of-a-kind furnishing.

7. Picture Frames of Reclaimed Wood

The understated, natural look of reclaimed wood is just right for picture frames. It actually can enhance your favorite artwork and personal photos in a most elegant manner. It’s worth noting, too, that frames of reclaimed wood can be crafted in a multitude of styles, so they’ll complement just about any décor scheme.

8. Headboards of Reclaimed Wood

There’s little that can upgrade the look of a bedroom like a smartly designed and constructed headboard. It’s a tossup today as to whether homeowners want their headboard attached directly to the bed or fastened to the wall behind the bed. However you want it, a headboard consisting of reclaimed wood planking can be especially stunning. It’s natural coloring and imperfections make it well suited to a seemingly infinite number of styles, from antique to modern. With reclaimed wood, you can let your imagination loose to create the headboard you’ve dreamed about!

Reclaim Your Creativity with Reclaimed Wood

It’s our hope that we’ve inspired you with these 8 ideas for getting the most out of reclaimed wood. That said, we have a great many more ideas – ideas that blend well with the reclaimed wood shutters we alone offer in Bakersfield. Our specialists will gladly show you samples of our shutters, answer your questions, and provide you with lots of other great design ideas. Give us a call at 661-449-1092 to set up your free in-home design consultation today!