Yes!  All of our products - fireplace mantels, floating shelves, box beam covers, and corbels - are made from real wood...Eastern White Pine to be more specific.  Due to it's light color, quick drying time, and durability, Eastern White Pine makes for a superior species of tree to use for barn beams.  It's overall appearance in general lends itself to look more reclaimed than any other type of wood.  Check out our Hewing Process page to find out more!

All of our wood fireplace mantels, corbels, and floating shelves are custom-made and hand-hewn by our Amish craftsman at the time of purchase and according to customer specifications.  Generally, it can take about 7-10 business days for your piece to be crafted, finished, and ready for shipping.  Depending on the time of year, that time can be pushed to 14 days.  Autumn and early winter tend to be our busiest time of year.

Shipping is done via UPS and can take anywhere from one to 2 weeks, depending on your location.

More often than not, your fireplace mantel will need to be notched in order to install it securely.  If you are mounting your mantel onto drywall or a fireplace that already has brick or stone veneer on it (or another masonry wall), then your mantel will need to be notched.  

If you are mounting your mantel onto a wall where brick or stone will be laid at a future date, then you do not need to have your mantel notched and we recommend purchasing a set of our metal straps. 

Please see our fireplace mantel installation and mounting page for more information.

All floating shelves come pre-notched. 

Hand-hewing is an age old method of cutting and shapping a tree log into a beam by striking it with a hewing axe, often called an adze axe.  These strikes, or blows, create checks and crack that make each beam truly unique and give it a rustic and antique farmhouse appearance, just like it was reclaimed from a barn in the 1800s. 

All of our barnwood beams are hewn by hand using this old-world technique by an Amish craftsman with over 30 years of experience.  Each piece he cretaes is truly authentic and custom-made at the time of purchase.  You can read more information about the hewing process here.

Yes, to both of those!  All barnwood fireplace mantels, corbels, and floating shelves include free nationwide mainland shipping.  They are shipped via UPS and carefully packaged to ensure your piece is safe and sound when it arrives on your doorstep.

Because of the custom and larger sizing of ceiling box beam covers, shipping is not included; however, when you contact us for a quote on your box beam covers, we will give you a shipping estimate once we know the size of the beam you wish to order.

International Shipping: Unfortunately, due to previous encounters with custom officials/procedures and the lack of care and damage accountability when inspecting our barnwood products, we are unable to ship outside the United States at this time.

Yes!  When properly installed and maintained, your fireplace mantel or floating shelf is very sturdy and durable.  Please visit our Mantel Installation & Mounting or Shelf Installation & Mounting pages for recommended installation procedures.

All of our barnwood products are made from Eastern White Pine, a superior wood species known for its durability and quick drying time.  Beams are then air-dried (or seasoned) for at least a year, sometimes two.  Air-drying allows the wood beams to be more durable and naturally dry out with minimal cracking or internal tensions that can often be found in kiln-drying (which can lead to a more fragile piece of wood).  All of this leads to a very strong timber wood beam that can last a lifetime.

Our fireplace mantels are made from real timber wood and are solid beams.  They can weigh approximately between 50-80 pounds, depending on the size ordered.

To ensure proper and secure installation, we always recommend that you hire a professional contractor.  However, depending on your DIY skills, you can install the mantel yourself.  Please visit our mantel installation and mounting page for more information.

While you can technically use our mantels for an outdoor fireplace, we do not recommend it.  The timber our craftsman uses is not pressure treated with chemical preservatives and, therefore, may be subject to wood rot.

If you do choose to use your mantel outdoors, we recommend ordering it unfinished (natural) and applying an exterior polyurethane to it when you receive it.  Yearly maintenance - such as light sanding and reapplying an exterior polyurethane to the mantel - will need to be done to ensure the wood is protected from the elements and does not rot.

Ceiling box beam covers are custom-made at the time of purchase and can take 6-8 weeks to be made and ready for shipping, depending on the current workload and time of year.  Due to their larger size, they fall into the freight class for shipping and will generally need to be shipped via LTL.  Customers ordering box beam covers may also pick up their beams directly if they choose not to have them delivered.  If you choose to have them delivered, you will be quoted separately for shipping costs.  Your box beams will be crated for transit so that they arrive safely and securely.

If you have any other questions that hasn't been answered here, please contact us and one of our barnwood specialists will be more than happy to help you!