Category: Customer Showcase

  • Austin Foundation for Architcture’s “Discover Design. Over Dinner.”

    The Austin Foundation for Architcture’s “Discover Design. Over Dinner.” was held at 7:30 6-27-2013 at the Peddle Office in the Buttrey Building, 111 W. 6th Street. Alterstudio Architecture, Franklin-Alan, WARBACH Lighting & Design, Eastside Lumber & Decking were involved in the construction and design of this wonderful space. The event was catered by Sway (yum!).…

  • Brian Long Custom Homes

    I visited one of our best customer’s job sites in Austin recently. What makes him one of our best customers? The degree of consideration he gives to every detail of the job including materials, staging, and communication. I can’t say enough good things about working with Brian Long Custom Homes. He is kind, funny, and respectful, and…

  • Eric Billig WORKS in Thermally Modified Wood

      Eric Billig WORKS: “I’m working on a whole line based on this material. You’ve got all the building blocks of the perfect eco friendly green wood: totally domestic, indoor/ outdoor, ready for an oil finish and most importantly– boom! dimensionally stable! So we can do some serious archival joints with domestic material made for outside…

  • Waller Creek Art with Thermally Modified Lumber

    Waller Creek Conservancy is hosting a fundraiser as a Pop-up Picnic on April 13 at 6:30 in Palm Park in Austin. One of our customers Agrippa Spence Kellum who works with Design Build Adventure is building a sculpture for the event out of Thermally Modified Wood which is a 100% sustainable pine and holds its shape as you can see in…

  • Framing Contractor James Galvin

    I delivered some joist hangers to a jobsite to one of our fabulously competent customers James Galvin and his crew.  We shared some Torchy’s Tacos and a beautiful spring day in Austin on the site. While I was there, the homeowner stopped by the jobsite. He had not seen the house since the second floor…

  • Craft Pride

    Our customer Gilbert Rose certainly takes pride in his craft. He was the master craftsman on site at Craft Pride, a new bar on Rainey Street in Austin that specializes in Texas microbreweries and draft beer. He re-floored the whole building and set a wood inlay in the floor under a chandelier- map of Texas…

  • CG&S Design Build

    At Eastside Lumber & Decking, we enjoy building happy relationships with our customers. Our sales team has worked with CG&S Design Build for almost three decades, long before Eastside was born. “We appreciate the way Eastside lumber takes care of us. They are very responsive to our requests. Most of the time it’s the same…

  • James Hardie Sporting Clays Shoot

    On Friday, February 8, James Hardie Building Products sponsored a Sporting Clays Shoot at the Capitol City Trap and Skeet Club. Builders, remodelers, wholesalers, and lumber companies all got together to have fun, to get to know each other, and to compete for prizes. We all celebrated the event afterward with a BBQ lunch. Here…

  • NARI CotY 2013 National Award Winners from Austin

    NARI – the National Association of the Remodeling Industry – has just announced the Regional Winners and Green & Universal Design  Project Honorees. The prestigious Contractor of the Year (CotY) awards are given each year by NARI Headquarters to NARI members who have demonstrated outstanding work through their remodeling projects. The local winners through NARI Austin were…

  • Cofty Construction – Tigerwood Porch

    Gideon Cofty Construction built this screened-in porch that would be my fantasy spot to host a 42 tournament. Privacy, nature views, good lighting, air flow, beautiful design, and quality craftsmanship. And no mosquitos. The decking is Tigerwood, the framing is Douglas Fir, and the ceiling panels are Polygal. Tigerwood has rich, stripey colors, is durable…