Brandon Baker He along with his hard-working crew have reclaimed more than 400 pioneer-era structures.

He along with his hard-working crew have reclaimed more than 400 pioneer-era structures.

Jeff Devlin For one of those Stone House Revival renovations, Jeff built this colonial-era secretary's desk. The desk features a hinged top that opens flat to create a writing surface and behind the double doors lies bookcase-style shelving. Jeff used a profound wine-colored stain for the desk after staining the entire piece, he bothered the edges with glue. Putting the finished desk beside the bread oven with an antique cross-back seat makes for a snug writer's corner. See more photographs of the historic renovation >>



Jeff Devlin A few feet out of Jeff's Pennsylvania farmhouse stays an old barn filled with tools and retrieved wood of each shape and dimension. Some of Jeff's most cherished tools would be the ones handed down from his father and grandfather. See more of his personal workshop >>



Jeff Devlin Jeff assembled this Colonial-style dining table from repurposed wood. It is the ideal addition to his lovely historic home. (His adorable St. Bernard dog favors the settee.)



Jeff Devlin Clint and his wife Kelly set their firm -- Harp Design Co -- from their garage. Shortly thereafter they moved with their three children into Waco, Texas in which Clint met HGTV celebrities Processor and Joanna Gaines. They were impressed with Clint's skills, they hired him as the carpenter due to their hugely popular series Fixer Upper. His success on that series has led him to star in his own TV show named  Against the Grain.   On Clint's series, he and his group produce new one-of-a-kind furniture bits out of reclaimed wood.



Clint Harp Clint's specialization is farmhouse tables that are beautiful to check at and at the same time rustic enough that a stain or two won't matter. When designing these bits glass railing toronto . his objective is bringing people together. Clint would like to make a gathering space for family meals, homework, art projects or simply sharing a cup of coffee. In this formal dining room in a remodeled barn house, Clint designed a 17-foot farm-style dining table to sponsor a bunch.   Watch more of Clint's work from HGTV's Fixer Upper >> 



Clint Harp Clint assembled this 16-foot outdoor table to sit below this countryside pergola at Chip and Joanna Gaines' shop Magnolia Farms.   After helping Clint place it in position, Chip when picking up the table to carrying a Volkswagon.  



Clint Harp Mark Bowe, host of DIY Network's Barnwood Builders, worked his way through West Virginia University as a coal miner, earning a bachelor's degree in business management. Mark also holds a master's degree in security management from WVU. He founded his company, Antique Cabins and Barns, in 1995. He along with his hard-working crew have reclaimed more than 400 pioneer-era structures. Mark says he is enthusiastic about honoring the craft of America's ancestors and is dedicated to make sure their hard work resides on for centuries ahead.



Mark Bowe The series Barnwood Builders follows Mark and his fun-loving West Virginia team as they search for hand-hewn antique log cabins and barns. They recover as much of old structures since they could and then restore and rebuild them in a new place.    



Mark Bowe On one of Mark's rebuild jobs, the crew set up a salvaged stained-glass window at a rebuilt timber chapel located in Kentucky.



Mark Bowe Here, Mark stands at the middle of a piled hand-hewn log cabin in South Carolina.   Notice the labels on each log. When Mark and his team tear down a cabin or barn, then they thoroughly tag each log so that when they reconstruct the arrangement they understand which piece goes where.  



Mark Bowe Rosemary began her artwork course later in life. She spent years at a successful high-stakes, high-stress company and then finally 1 day needed to confront the question "if not today, then when?" Rosemary took a huge leap of faith and followed her soul's craving for her true passion. "I think about my mission as to uplift, to deliver a boost of fun, positive power and joy into a space and to the men and women who encounter it," says Rosemary. "The fantastic thing about shape and colour is that any person of any age can appreciate the mix and can feel the happy vibes."  



Rosemary Pierce This work, known as "Lyrical Circles" was commission for a personal home. "It was motivated by the notion of playful, fun sculptural circles demonstrating free-spirited movement and saying," says Rosemary. "Made from timber, paint and lacquer, the lyrical circles have a superb sense of free-floating from the wall, as every circle is attached to a sculptural wooden block on the trunk. The block is not visible but gives this fantastic sculptural depth and impact."



Rosemary Pierce Rosemary created this piece, called "Light My Fire" for a hotel lobby in downtown Dallas. "This job was motivated by the notion of abstract games installed in a circular starburst pattern to signify fire, sun, vibrant flaming energy," explains Rosemary. "Made from wood, metal, plaster, paint and lacquer. I took wooden dowels and built up layers of plaster onto the hints, then coated into shape to get my matchstick look.     I then painted every piece at a gradient of deep dark red on the tips via reds, to apples, to yellows."



Rosemary Pierce This installment -- called "Over the Harbor" -- was made for a penthouse at Baltimore. Rosemary explains it is a component of her "Stick Together" string which is made from various thickness and sized wooden dowels. "Each piece is glazed to bring out the richness of the natural timber, and then one by one dipped into paint constructed into layers" See more of Rosemary's job >>



Rosemary Pierce EJ Osborne studied furniture and product design, but shortly afterward realized a life sitting behind a monitor was not for him. He especially didn't want to design things for bulk production and sending meaningless products into an already crowded universe of stuff. After a frenzied bout of "maker's itch" -- the necessity to make -- EJ undergone his aha moment and realized that handcarving was his calling.  



EJ Osborne Using only 3 tools -- a small strand, a straight-edge knife plus a crook knife -- EJ can form a branch into a useful utensil. Here, EJ begins to carve a spoon out of a bent branch. He forages all his own substances -- which essentially means taking a walk in the woods.  



EJ Osborne EJ provides spoon carving workshops near his home in Southeast England. The weekend-long course occurs in the woods. Pupils sit around the campfire all day, carving and drinking coffee. In the evening, craft ales and marshmallows are appreciated around the flame. If you can not make it to England for your workshop, check out EJ's Spoon Carving publication. It's detailed job instructions, plus tips on everything from how to harvest and store wood to keeping your creations for years to come.  



EJ Osborne The act of dividing is meditative and relaxing. It's all about the craft of slow living; working with your hands along with a piece of nature to make something beautiful and useful. Have a look at EJ's website, Hatchet and Bear, to see more of his work. Many of the designs have been offered in Anthropologie UK and The Conran Shop.  



EJ Osborne John McGilvray has been building furniture and designing custom kitchens and kitchens for at least 25 decades. He started out as a journeyman doing restoration work on historical home on Long Island's Gold Coast. John then moved to Tennessee where he started his own company working on high-end residential houses.  



John McGilvray In this kitchen, John was able to blend new and old together in a complex manner. The timber on the hood port, and also the corbels and siding around the middle island were all formerly part of a barn which stood on the house's property. "The land has been in family for several generations, so it meant a whole lot to the homeowners that they could incorporate a part of family in their brand new modern house," says John. See more of the kitchen >>



John McGilvray John custom made this complex French-country style for a family that moved from New Orleans into East Tennessee. For these homeowners, the number-one want on their list was a large center island on a single level with lots of seating and work surface where the entire family can eat and cook together. This island and its slab of marble offers room for five stools, lots of storage, and a full size sink. John was able to provide the household the function they wanted while incorporating design touches that lend a nod to their native Southern Louisiana. Watch more of the kitchen >>



John McGilvray Kyle is a fourth-generation woodworker who followed his enthusiasm, as well as his own lineage into furniture layout. He believes in the importance of passing things down, so that he designs furniture that will stand the test of time in both utility and design. Kyle has a diploma in civil engineering, but instead of going down the expect career path, he decided to use his skills to build midcentury-modern motivated furniture.



Kyle Huntoon Kyle's handcrafted mid-mod designs landed him a spot on Ellen DeGeneres' hit show Ellen's Design Challenge. On the display, Ellen includes a select group of designers (Kyle is on the left) compete in a variety of challenges designing and building furniture.  



Kyle Huntoon Kyle is inspired by the clean geometric lines of mid-century contemporary design and loves to integrate traditional joinery techniques in his job. He uses a variety of American hardwoods in his designs and particularly   likes to work with walnut because they had been his favourite trees on his great-grandparent's farm. Here, Kyle functions with DIY Network's licensed contractor Matt Muenster (correct) to build the finger-jointed pieces of a walnut timber seat created for Ellen's Design Challenge.



Kyle Huntoon Here, one of our camera individuals record Kyle constructing a curved bench seat in his Detroit studio. Watch the movie or check out Kyle's website, Hunt and Noyer.        



Kyle Huntoon Katie Jackson studied visual art at Bennington College and has been trained in New England School of Architectural Woodworking's Cabinetmaking Career Training.   She spent many years teaching woodworking to at-risk adolescent girls. Katie specializes in building versatile outdoor furniture, a lot of which is made from recycled materials.  



Katie Jackson Katie created this poolside lounger having an adjustable back rest. The tapered-corner brace legs give this classic slatted design a contemporary spin.



Katie Jackson When constructing these sectional bits, Katie was motivated by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) work back in the 1930s and early 1940s. When the CCC constructed our national parks they utilized simple horizontal lines with a practical purpose which blended in with the natural environment. This seat, ottoman and lounge are a nod to this National Park Service Rustic appearance (aka -- Parkitecture). Get job instructions from Katie's publication, Handbuilt Outdoor Furniture, and see more of her designs in her website.