What: Residential Home

Where: Eagle, ID

Solution: Japanese style charred wood called Shou-Sugi-Ban

Product: Charwood™ – Ebony

This week’s featured build displays many creative and unique interior uses of Charwood™ Ebony throughout the entire home. Montana Timber Products’ Charwood™ is a Japanese style charred wood known as Shou-Sugi-Ban. This method of burning, scorching, or charring the surface of wood building materials dates back hundreds of years. The process adds beauty and longevity, as well as resistance from rot, pests, and fire. The product is prefinished with PolySeal, a blend of Seal-Once and Poly.

The homeowners and designers created a very welcoming entryway by utilizing Charwood™ ceiling paneling as well as a traditional sliding door. The ceiling paneling features a Tongue and Groove profile allowing the fasteners to be concealed for a clean finish. The white walls, a theme throughout most of the home, creates a strong contrast with the Charwood™, resulting in a beautiful clash between modern and traditional design.

The mixed dimension, mixed Circle Sawn and Wire Brushed texture, Charwood™ Ebony backdrop (above) creates an absolute depth not commonly seen. To compliment it, the same material was used for the cabinetry and trim throughout the bathroom.

In addition to the aesthetic beauty of Charwood™, the physical attributes make it an incredible product. When wood is charred, a chemical change called pyrolysis occurs. Pyrolysis is the irreversible depletion of organic material in wood. This means that the wood has lost much of its ability to ignite and burn, giving it a very high level of chemical free, natural fire retardant.

Whether you are looking for siding, beams, flooring, or interior accents, Montana Timber Products offers a solution for your rustic needs. All Montana Timber Products’ prefinished wood siding utilizes Seal-Once, a 100% NO VOC waterproofer with a 10 year limited warranty against water ingress.

Where: Utah

What: Residential Home

Solution: Japanese style charred wood called Shou-Sugi-Ban

Product – Charwood™ – Ebony

The inception of Shou-Sugi-Ban, the centuries old traditional Japanese method of charring wood, was the result of the need for low maintenance, rot, pest, and fire resistant wood siding and fencing. Montana Timber Products’ Charwood™ product line, provides three variations of natural, NO VOC, Shou-Sugi-Ban wood.

This week’s featured project utilizes Charwood™ Ebony as an interior and exterior solution. Ebony is the “mid-level” burn of the three Charwood™ offerings. It provides similar wood grain striping to that of the Tiger offering, but with a more intense burn to create deeper, richer, coloring.

Charwood’s incredible ability to resist fire and pests is attested to it’s charring process, which effectively eliminates the majority of its potential energy (combustibility) and it’s vascular tissue. Vascular tissue is the primary food source for boring insects; without it, you minimize the chance of the invasive pests finding their way into your home.

There are many variations of Charwood™. Many of these variations are harvested overseas and shipped to the United States. All Montana Timber Products natural wood products are sourced and processed in-house here in the United States, minimizing the ecological footprint and maintaining control of sustainable practices.

Whether you are looking for siding, beams, flooring, or interior accents, Montana Timber Products offers a solution for your rustic needs. All Montana Timber Products’ prefinished wood siding utilizes Seal-Once, a 100% NO VOC waterproofer with a 10 year limited warranty against water ingress.

Where: Truckee, California

What: Residential

Solution: Circle sawn texture 1×10 shiplap siding .

Product: ranchwood™ Eastern siding. Texture: Circle sawn

Martis Camp of Truckee, CA is “the best place to own a second home in Tahoe”. It is a premier four season closed community with private golfing, skiing, and surrounding nature. In creating the perfect mountain luxury homes, here a Martis Camp owner chose Montana Timber Products for their premium reclaimed barn wood substitute, ranchwood™.

The darker, brown tone, horizontal siding pictured above and below is part of the Montana Timber Products ranchwood™ product line. It is featured in the “Eastern” color and Circle sawn texture, replicating the radial circle saw marks left from traditional milling practices. Montana Timber products also offers Aquafir, a more contemporary siding solution, as well as Charwood, the Japanese style Shou-Sugi-Ban scorched wood.

Whether you are looking for siding, beams, flooring, or interior accents, Montana Timber Products offers a solution for your rustic needs. All Montana Timber Products’ prefinished wood siding utilizes Seal-Once, a 100% NO VOC waterproofer with a 10 year limited warranty against water ingress.

Where: Southwestern Montana

What: Resort

Solution: Circle sawn texture Douglas Fir Timbers (beams), 1×6 vertical Shiplap siding, 2×12 Channel Rustic siding.

Product: ranchwood™ and AquaFir wood siding and AquaFir timbers. Texture: Circle sawn.

Rock Creek Cattle Company is one of Montana’s premier guest ranches, featuring one of the nation’s premier golf courses, blue ribbon fishing, trophy hunting, and just about any other type of recreation one can imagine.

Most people vacationing to Western ski resorts and guest ranches are looking for entertainment and rustic authenticity. That is why almost every resort in the West has turned to Montana Timber Products to provide a cost effective and sustainable alternative to reclaimed barn wood to meet their rustic needs.

The photograph above features Montana Timber Products’ flagship product, ranchwood™ siding with circle sawn texture to replicate traditional milling processes. This vertical Shiplap siding (below) and horizontal Channel Rustic siding (above) are prefinished in Western Exposure, a color specific to the ranchwood™ product line. The trim and gable timbers (below) are also featured in the circle sawn texture and are prefinished in AquaFir Brown, a color specific to the more contemporary, AquaFir product line.

Whether you are looking for siding, beams, flooring, or interior accents, Montana Timber Products offers a solution for your rustic needs. All Montana Timber Products’ prefinished wood siding utilizes Seal-Once, a 100% NO VOC waterproofer with a 10 year limited warranty against water ingress.