Reclaimed: Gym Floor Maple, Tobacco Maple and Textile Maple

Gym Floor Maple, Tobacco Maple and Textile Maple. It’s all crazy good. Reclaimed Factory maple, along with gym floor makes up some of the most unique and individualistic looks we have to offer. From flooring and wall treatments to store fixtures, restaurant table tops, and kitchen islands, this hard wood is as versatile as it is attention getting. Sourced from schools and factories throughout the country, reclaimed maple becomes one of our most interesting “storied” woods as well.

Contact us for opportunities to implement our unique reclaimed flooring, timbers, siding and other architectural elements into your projects.

Reclaimed Maple Gym Floor
Our reclaimed gym floors make for one of our quirkier and visually captivating flooring options. Ideal for residential and commercial applications, these maple floors are sourced from gymnasiums occupying rural high schools to NBA Championship courts. Each still show the existing court lines randomly throughout. Available in Black/Red/Off-White Mix or Black/Red/Green Blue Mix.

Reclaimed Tobacco Maple
When Nike Sportswear at 21 Mercer Street opened in SoHo, New York, the names on the guest list included Serena Williams, Spike Lee, Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova, Travis McCoy, and Urban Evolutions’ 3 1/4-inch maple with original patina reclaimed from American Tobacco.Used for the wall, floor, and display treatments, our reclaimed maple, from American Tobacco’s Greenville, North Carolina, facility stood by with a stately Southern dignity as rappers and Wimbledon champions came together in a rare display of modern kismet.

Reclaimed Textile Maple
Now our maple floors have made it across the Atlantic and taken up residence as Anthropologie’s expands to Great Britain. The King’s Road, London location features many of our reclaimed materials including antique white oak, reclaimed pine, and this maple from a Virginia textile mill.

Featured Project – Terrain at Styer’s

Hand-Hewn Timber Skins - Think of it as architectural skin grafts. Okay, that's a little creepy. Still, our hand-hewn timber skins offer a great way of adding a thick textural appearance without the weight and size of full timbers.

Imagine the garden child of Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie. It’s here and its name is Terrain.

Material midwife? Urban Evolutions!

From hand-hewn timbers to tobacco lath pine to reclaimed mushroom wood, you can’t throw a potted hydrangea without hitting something from Urban.

Located just outside Philadelphia, Terrain at Styer’s is a utopia of flora, fauna, garden pots, outdoor furniture, and what we like to call the three T’s: terrariums, trowels and trugs. Basically they carry everything under the sun… for working out under the sun.

Now you can have a bit of Terrain, even if you don’t live within travelin’ distance of the city of brotherly love. Their website shopterrain.com offers an extensive array of there merchandise for online purchase… and free shipping on purchases over $100 for Mother’s Day.

Reclaimed Tobacco Lath - Thin pine sticks that were used to skewer fresh tobacco leaves and then hung for the drying process. Here we used them as a ceiling treatment at Terrain. The pine lath makes a great material for cladding walls, ceilings, or store fixtures to give instant warmth and character. The applications are limitless.

Reclaimed Mushroom Wood - These cypress and hemlock planks were used to grow mushrooms. They have an amazing texture as a result of the enzymes released during the mushroom growing process. This wood does not have psychedelic properties.

Reclaimed Mushroom Wood

Reclaimed Whiskey Oak Skins - Old whiskey barrel staves clad the interior walls of the retail space. The wood is left unfinished to highlight the natural weathered gray appearance.

UE Barn Quilt Wall Art Inspired by The Shawano County Barn Quilt Project

Jim Leuenberger began The Shawano County Barn Quilt Project about a year and a half ago after seeing these painted designs on barns in other states. Now, more than 100 barns across the County have these large painted wood designs. The barn quilts have since become a symbol of community in Shawano County and help attract tourism as drivers make their way through the area with maps provided by the Chamber of Commerce.

We thought it would be fun to take this concept and create interior barn quilts out of materials salvaged throughout the state. We also love an opportunity to create work for local artisans in the Valley. Our three pieces shown are constructed of reclaimed factory maple from Manitowoc. The result is a charming folk-art piece which blends well with traditional and modern design. Stop in our showroom to see a selection!

Chicago Residence – A Showcase of What We Do with Reclaimed Materials

Everything that we do well, done well…

If we nominated a house of the year, this would be it! We had the privilege of working with homeowners who blend crazy good taste and a love of “Materials with a Past”. From salvaged Convent tiles, Thomas Edison Factory Maple, to fallen trees from the yard, this home embraces so much that is good, possible and sustainable in building today. Equally important is that the homeowners, Architect, Builder and Urban team still had big love for each other when all was complete. The team of Scott Simpson Builders and architect John Holbert set high expectations, and all of us delivered with out sacrificing passion and joy in the work.

Photos by: Leslie Schwartz

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