T HE floating vessel sink base in the powder
room is made of the reclaimed American
chestnut, as is the fireplace mantel, the
kitchen hood, and a beam underneath the
staircase. In the master bedroom, a headboard is made of the
Pennsylvania barn’s siding that Dave’s dad planned to throw out.
“My dad said, ‘So what are you going to do with all this old
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junk wood?’” laughs Dave. “Here I am running my hands
over it, saying ‘Look at the grain!’ The farm has been in our
family forever. That barn was our lineage and now we get to
keep it going.”
Salvaged pieces of Dave and Heather’s former boat dock
destroyed by Hurricane Florence were repurposed into a bench
in the laundry room. The dock’s cleats became coat hangers.
