Create an Eco-Friendly Woodshop
With the unveiling of the new Kansas City green living show home this weekend, we want to offer some tips for creating an eco-friendly woodshop. We came across an interesting forum on the topic started on the Canadian Woodworking & Home Improvement website that contains some great ideas: Create...
Tour New Kansas City Green Living Show Home
Have you heard about the new Kansas City Homes & Gardens Boulevard of Dreams Green Living Show Home? The green living show home is a community effort to raise awareness about earth-friendly building techniques and home improvements. The show home, located at 1010 Brentwood Circle in Kansas City, will...
Wood as Contemporary Art
Schutte Lumber Company’s customers are not only remodelers, contractors, and do-it-yourself types, they are also artists, as our post about a stunning handcrafted wooden kayak demonstrated. We found another great example of wood as contemporary art on the Contemporist blog. This amazing wood sculpture, “Purple Horizon,” was created by...
Explore Deck Railing Options
Deck railing options at Schutte Lumber include wood, composite, and pressure-treated wood railing. Wood Railing Western red cedar and exotic woods such as ipe are popular wood railing options Composite Railing Composite railing such as DuraLife (formerly CorrectDeck CX) is made of polypropylene and recovered hardwood fiber. Pressure-Treated Wood...
Schutte Lumber Customer Builds Wooden Kayak
Check out this beautifully crafted strip-planked wooden kayak built by one of Schutte Lumber Company’s customers using some of our exotic and specialty hardwoods. For the customer’s first-ever woodworking project, they purchased a boatbuilding kit from Chesapeake Light Craft Boats, which also offers boatbuilding tips and boatbuilding classes. The...
Schutte Lumber on Facebook Places
Schutte Lumber Company has created a page on Facebook Places, allowing customers to “check in” here via their mobile phones and/or computers and find friends nearby. iPhone users will need to download the “Facebook for iPhone” app or go to www.touch.facebook.com to log in to Facebook on the device....
Mill Production of a Custom Cut Timber
Putting a decorative end detail on a beam to customize your project is a specialty at Schutte Lumber Company. Our craftsman at our on-site mill can take your template and cut the timber to your specifications. To see how the process works you can view our video (above) of...
Kansas City Build Expo Next Week
On Sept. 22-23 the Kansas City Build Expo will be held at the Kansas City Convention Center’s Bartle Hall, offering builders, suppliers, manufacturers, and other industry professionals the chance to network and receive information about new products, best practices, and upcoming construction projects in Kansas City. Admission is free,...
Cherry Bedroom Furniture Trend Emerges
Once relegated to kitchens and dining rooms, cherry furniture is making its way into the bedroom this season, delivering a richer look consumers want these days, according to Linda Duell of Heavenly Bedrooms in Quakertown, Penn. The move is away from black finishes and toward “cherry, merlot and reddish-brown...
Lumber Terminology – A Few Basics
Have you ever gone to buy lumber and realized you couldn’t speak the language? Here are a few basic terms to get you started: Is it a hardwood or a softwood? You may think this would refer to the hardness of the wood, but it is not so. After...