It isn't every day that someone can take a couple of old dead trees destined for the dump and turn them into strikingly different home and patio furnishings, decorative items and jewelry. But that's what Kathy Beahn and her husband, Bob, have done with their two front-yard cedars that had to come down.
"I don't like to waste things, so after taking down the trees, Bob and I got them cut into two" planks," Beahn said. "Our first cedar wood project was to make a bed. It turned out gorgeous--a true one-of-a-kind bed."
With that success, she said, "I was hooked."
Her husband is the "chainsaw and structural engineer," and she is designer and finisher. Together, they've turned those trees into garden benches and tables, jewelry and jewelry holders, coasters, towel racks, lamps, welcome signs, book shelves, walking canes and "so much more."
Each piece of cedar from boards to stumps to limbs "is so beautiful and unique," she said. And she enjoys every aspect of the process of producing wood pieces, from stripping the bark to sanding to applying the final coat of Polyurethane.
