Week 16 of The Riverhouse Project: A Field Trip to Evolutia If you haven’t visited the Evolutia warehouse in Birmingham’s Northside, you’re missing out on one incredible experience. Upon the Brights’ decision to add reclaimed wood elements to their home’s interior, the team at Evolutia—who will be providing the material—invited us to tour the warehouse to learn more about their work in providing unique, sustainable building materials to Birmingham homes. “We get most of our wood from old factories and industrial buildings that are pre-20th century,” explains Allen, who runs the warehouse (“He can just look at a piece of wood and tell you what type it is and where it’s from,” describes a fellow team member). Allen explains that Evolutia focuses on longleaf heart pine for their warehouse. “We’ve gone as far as New Hampshire to get it,” he says. “But we find the best wood here in the Southeast.” Evolutia sources and preps all the wood themselves, which they then sell to consumers to be used as fireplace mantles, hardwood flooring, and even reclaimed furniture they build by hand. The company’s focus is sustainability, which in part means using all parts of the wood pieces that come into their warehouse. “One of our processes is shaving off the top layer of a piece of wood, which leaves us with a thin oak skin that can then be used as a wall treatment,” says Allen. “It used to be something we threw away, and now it’s one of our best sellers.” So which pieces will Bill and Lisa be installing in their home? They’ve selected reclaimed oak skins to cover the walls in their kitchen nook as well as gorgeous beams to function as headers between rooms on the main floor. These pieces from Evolutia are sure to add that rustic element they’ve been looking for. Click the photos below to learn more about our trip to Evolutia, and be sure to check out their website at evolutiamade! We’ll be back next week at 3 PM as we share the latest progress in the Brights’ homebuilding journey with Harris Doyle Homes, #TheRiverhouseProject.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 20:00:00 +0000
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