What Is Hardwood Flooring?

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Hardwood is typically a designation for a wood from a deciduous tree. Softwood is typically an denomination for a conifer. Does it ever pain you to see certain woods trend one year and then be like, Oh, everyone rip out your white oak floors? Like, does that ever just kill you? I love all wood. I love all trees. So, but I get less miffed about the trending from a tree standpoint and way more from a human standpoint. Yeah. It's not walnuts fault that is beautiful and all the things,. But guys come on, we got to branch out. Ah, I got a branch out.

What’s the customary 5th Anniversary gift? Apparently… WOOD! So we wrangled our favorite sawmill owner/operator of LA’s Angel City Lumber, Jeff Perry – who rescues downed street trees from the chipper and turns them into beautiful planks, boards, stumps and chonks. We cover everything from forest management to 2x4s, wood grain, burls, bog logs, sawdust, tree disease, asparagus tips, salvaged lumber, kiln drying, Westward expansion, Indigenous forest management, cedar whiff, and how working with wood changes your relationship to death.

Angel City Lumber website

Donations went to The Mother Tree Project via this link

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