A company with the unassuming name, Antique and Vintage Woods of America, creates spectacular wood flooring from the reclaimed floors and timbers of yesteryear.  Antique, or old growth wood, is over 100 years old, while vintage wood is less than 100 years old.  Antique wood – like the mushroom wood pictured above originally used as the shelving for mushroom growing beds – captures the tight grain structure and character of trees harvested at 100 to 300 years of age  – trees which our country has pretty almost totally consumed and in many cases entirely eradicated.  Pictured below are antique chestnut and mixed softwood pine planks.

The folks at Antique and Vintage Woods is a a premium supplier of antique and vintage reclaimed wood and reclaimed lumber for custom wood flooring and antique wood beams.  The Hudson Valley-based company practices “The Green Earth Concept” – by salvaging and reclaiming wood and brick building materials from old factories, mushroom facilities, old buildings and dismantled barns and incorporates them into new and restorative construction and surfaces – preserving the trees we have left while reclaiming the splendor of a time gone by.