Slow Design: Heritage Salvage Wine-Soaked Flooring
From Janet
Heritage Salvage, located an hour north of San Francisco in Petaluma, stocks a wide array of recycled wood, vintage lumber, salvaged flooring, and other reclaimed buillding products. We particularly like the French white oak Wine-Soaked Boards (Heritage's location just south of wine country is a plus), which are used in steel wine tanks to impart an oak barrel flavor. Once they've served their purpose, they can be reused as flooring or paneling; Heritage Salvage offers them in red wine or white wine varieties, with crystalline formations embedded in the grain. Available in two half-inch thick sizes: the 2.5-foot-by-36-inch boards are $1 each and the 4.25-foot-by-39.5-inch boards are $2 each.
Above: White-wine-soaked oak boards.
Above: Red-wine-soaked oak boards.
Above: Wine-soaked boards from Heritage Salvage can be used as paneling.
October 2, 2009
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They use these wine-stained boards in the new pizza restaurant Flour and Water. The restaurant was an interior design venture for the landscaper/owner Sean Quigley of SF's quintessential taxidermy and plant store Paxton Gate. Check out the article about him in California Home + Design, August issue. Go eat there if you haven't yet!
