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Rustic Barnwood Furniture Details Custom Commission Process as Reclaimed Material Supply Shapes What Can Be Built

The Colorado maker builds to order in any size and finish — a proposition constrained less by workshop capacity than by what a given reclaimed board will allow.

COLORADO — September 23, 2026

Rustic Barnwood Furniture, a Colorado maker of handmade reclaimed barnwood furniture trading as Raised In A Barn, has outlined how its custom commission process works — a description prompted by the most common question the workshop receives, which is whether a particular piece can be built to a particular size.

The short answer is usually yes. The longer answer is the interesting one, because with reclaimed material the constraint is rarely the workshop.

The material decides first

Furniture built from newly milled lumber starts with a design and orders the wood to suit it. Reclaimed work runs the other way. A salvaged barn board has a history — a length, a thickness, a grain, nail holes, weathering on one face and not the other, and sometimes a century of exposure that has done things no mill can reproduce.

That history is the reason people want the material and the reason a commission takes a conversation. A ten-foot dining table is straightforward if the right boards are on hand and impossible that week if they are not.

People ask if we can build it any size. We can. The question is which boards it gets built from, and sometimes that means waiting for the right ones rather than forcing the wrong ones. Rustic Barnwood Furniture

How a commission works

What reclaimed material does and does not do

The workshop is direct about the trade-offs, on the grounds that a customer who understands them is a customer who stays happy with the piece.

What it does: every piece is genuinely unique, because the material was. The surface character — saw marks, nail holes, weathering, color variation across a single board — is not a finish effect applied to new wood. It is the actual history of the material, and it cannot be replicated.

What it does not do: match. Two tables built from the same barn will not be identical, and a customer ordering a second piece a year later should expect a sibling rather than a twin. Reclaimed material also carries the marks of its previous life, which is the point for most buyers and a surprise for a few.

Built in Colorado

All pieces are built in Colorado. The workshop notes that local building keeps the commission conversation direct — a customer can describe a room and get an answer about what will work in it from the person who will build the piece, rather than through a retail intermediary ordering from a catalog.

Availability

Custom orders are accepted in any size and finish. Quotes are available by telephone at (970) 518-2883 or through rusticbarnwoodfurniture.com.

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