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We love wood – all kinds of wood from pine and oak to cherry and mahogany. We panel our walls with it, make furniture and home accessories from it and even frame our walls in it. It is probably near to impossible to enter any home in the USA and not find wood somewhere. Read more… …

I made these mantel columns for a friend a few years back. He was in the middle of renovating an old house. The fireplace is actually not functioning anymore. It was originally a coal burner. He probably put books or flowers in the fireplace to decorate.

fireplace columns

fireplace columns

The columns are 6 inches X 50 inches high and are salvaged cypress (very popular in our area). They are barley twisted left and right handed. FYI cypress is often salvaged from old house and warehouses in the South.