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Boy Scouts Camp Climbing Tower
The Boy Scouts of America Capitol Area Council is gearing up for summer. The Lost Pines Scout Reservation has a 62 foot tall tower that has been under siege and needed repair. Not only do the Scouts hurl themselves at it and climb it, and “decorate” it with canoes as a prank, but giant Pileated…
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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…
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Image Contracting – Craft Pride Bar on Rainey Street
Gilbert Rose of Image Contracting sent us this photo of a floor inlay they just finished fitting and distressing. The project is for Craft Pride on 61 Rainey Street in Austin, opening February 2013. (If you are a microbrewery fan, you can follow the details of the opening on Craft Pride’s Facebook page.) The floor…
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Observation Deck at the South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center
Students from The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture volunteered to design and build an observation deck and walkway at the South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center. Eastside stepped up to donate lumber. Click here to read a great article here in the Corpus Christi Caller and see more photos.
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Casis Outdoor Classroom Created by Community
Burton Baldridge of Baldridge Architects headed a project at Casis Elementary to design and build an open-air classroom with seating for forty students, storage for tools and classroom supplies, and rainwater collection. Eastside Lumber & Decking signed on as one of the first sponsors of the project and provided all the lumber. The project was…
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Pine Wood Austin
Pine Wood is the mainstay of framing lumber and big part of interior and exterior pine siding and trim for building a home in Austin. Pine wood and lumber is one of the most common of the building materials used on Austin Texas homes because pine is a great renewable resource. Southern pine lumber, Douglas Fir, SPF (spruce, Pine, fir)…