“It was a natural choice,” says Adrian of using reclaimed and rescued wood. “I didn’t want to chop down a whole lot of trees.” The walls and ceiling are lined with planks of butternut harvested from diseased trees in Vermont.  Photo 5 of 8 in 8 Beautiful Home Projects Using Reclaimed Wood from In the Loop

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This loft in Brooklyn, New York, used almost all reclaimed, recycled, or diseased wood for everything from the flooring—salvaged from a barn constructed in the 1800s in the Allegheny Mountains in Ohio—to the doors, which were saved from a mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut. Shelving, walls, and ceilings throughout the apartment are covered with wood that came from butternut trees in a blighted forest in Vermont, where worm infestations created intricate, unique patterns in the diseased wood. Although the apartment is located in New York, the different pieces of lumber inside come from all over the country.

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