by Barney & Carey Co. | Dec 16, 2024 | Custom Moulding, Specialty Lumber
Over the decades, I have found the one major thing that distinguishes exceptional houses from the plain and ordinary: the moldings. When I first started remodeling and building in the early 1970’s, door and window casings were either clamshell (ranch) or...
by Barney & Carey Co. | Jul 22, 2024 | Specialty Lumber
A “boule” (I thought you’d never ask!) is a whole butt – or base – log that has been sawn into boards or slabs, and stacked sequentially in the sequence they were cut. A few mills will sell them like this, rather than sawing the logs in...
by Barney & Carey Co. | Jun 12, 2024 | Specialty Lumber, Woodworking
Ever since I started in construction in the mid 1960’s, there have been many trends in the use of various woods for interior finish. When I was converting a Back Bay townhouse into condos in 1973, all the existing doors and trim had long been painted white. Some...
by Barney & Carey Co. | Mar 5, 2024 | Specialty Lumber, Woodworking
A “slab” is generally described as one piece of wood, the width of the tree from which it was sawn, with or without “live edges” (the natural shape of the tree sides), and usually quite thick. Barney and Carey has been selling slabs for years,...
by Barney & Carey Co. | Jan 26, 2024 | Specialty Lumber, Woodworking
As written here in a previous blog, about eight years ago I took on two partners and decided to make a radical change at Barney & Carey. The location in Sharon had functioned pretty well as a small, “full service” lumber company, but had really...
