I'm in the wrong line or work. $3,000 barn wood doors

[jteneyck]

John, I’m not in the market for any beautifully crafted projects but let me tell you something:  If I were, and having seen the items you build, I’d make it rain for you.

Thanks for the kind words, Phil.  

John

[BobW]

It looks more like pallet wood to me!

[BaileyNo5]

They look out of place in that setting.

Ed

+1.  I agree, Ed.  Don't fit with the decor at all.  They should fire the interior designer that specced those.  But, people pay big bucks for a certain look, and vintage/rustic seems to be in at the moment.

I just built a barn wood coffee table.  Drawbored mortise and tenon joints and cut nails hold it together.  That thing would withstand a hurricane.  Nails cost more than the wood did.

[Stwood_]

That door hangar hardware runs about a hunnert bucks a door around here.
That kind of wood is dirt cheap.

[smithgl12]

I'll be the outlier here:  More power to the contractor for making some do-re-mi, more power to the client for being able to afford them.

Nothing puts a smile on my face more than big cash being spent.

Money makes the world go 'round.  More money makes it go 'round faster.

 
I think we just witnessed the invention of the Thien Cyclone Cash Separator (patent pending)

[Bob10]

That door hangar hardware runs about a hunnert bucks a door around here.
That kind of wood is dirt cheap.

I think that has to do with location with regard to the wood

[Bill Wilson]

They look out of place in that setting.

Ed

They're probably redo the interior in 5 years and toss those in the dumpster.

[Bob10]

They're probably redo the interior in 5 years and toss those in the dumpster.

If it takes that long!  I have seen businesses go in spending $100k's on custom woodworking and such and be gone in less than a year.  Following business comes in  clears the space of everything and makes a gym out of it

[Duane N]

Following business comes in  clears the space of everything and makes a gym out of it

And how I'm scoring some free wood recently.  I got a maple workbench top off of one job (I need help lifting it onto sawhorses it's so heavy), some Cherry baseboard that will eventually become boxes (5" X 5/8" thick in various lengths of 4' to 12' long) and another guy and I missed out on some Maple flooring that the general contractor had just pulled up and threw away (it used to be a dance studio that was being converted into office space).  With my line of work I have a few contacts that know I'll take stuff like this off of their hands and it saves them the cost of filling up a dumpster or removing it off of jobsites.

[Arlin Eastman]

I was working a job finishing up the air conditioning and I noticed these barn wood doors the general contractor was installing in some of the offices and we got to talking about them.  The customer paid $3,000 per door and 10 were installed in the suite.  The general contractor ordered the barn wood and built them on site.

That looks like Pallet wood.


All I can say is congrats to the maker and seller for selling it for that price.  To me if someone is willing to pay that much then sell it to them and bragging rights to the buyer.