Estate Millwork wooden garden chests are great for both indoor and outdoor storage and seating. A beautiful Cedar or Teak garden chest would be able to withstand the elements outside while an elegant Mahogany chest could complete a rooms decor. Garden chests are ideal for out door storage of cushions, pillows, extra blankets, gardening tools, or any extra items that are laying around on your patio. All chests are made from high quality hardwood and joinery and will look good on any patio or garden for years to come.
Versatile Garden Chests
Don't let endless clutter ruin your outdoor fun. Garden Chests from Estate Millwork provide an elegant storage solution for storing all your gardening, pool and patio accessories, outdoor kids toys out of sight and can also double as extra seating.
Teak the Beautiful and Prized Golden Brown Hardwood
Teak wood is known for its lovely golden brown color, although when freshly machined, it can sometimes have a variable pattern. Over time, and with exposure to sun and air, the streaks mellow into the signature golden brown appearance for which Teak is so prized.
Because Teak grows in a sandy soil it has a very high naturally occurring silica content, and this silica impregnates the fibers of the wood making it nearly waterproof. As well as making the wood naturally water resistant the wood’s natural oils double as natural insect repellents. Once milled, Teak holds its shape extremely well, and that stability makes it such an attractive wood for yacht builders, as well as for other builders whose materials must perform under harsh conditions and within tight tolerances.
This resin and oil content that makes Teak wood such an outstanding exterior wood is what can also cause the dramatic color variance we see when the wood is freshly planed and cut. Greys, greens, oranges and harsh streaks will show up immediately and that prized honey brown color is gone, while this can alarming but it is important to realize that this will fade with time.
Handcrafted with Sustainably Harvested Lumber
At Estate Millwork we air dry much of our lumber, and after air drying we finish drying in low wattage dehumidification kilns.
Every piece of wood we purchase is used to the fullest on products, at Estate Millwork we have a very high yield ratio of 94 percent due to the use of automated saws and optimizing software. The remainimg 6 percent which is mostly sawdust and chips are either burned to heat our plant or send to local cattle farmers for bedding and composting.
Nothing is wasted. Some of Appalachian lumber we use comes from Amish farmers in our county who harvest with horses instead of mechanized equipment, and do our rough sawing on 1920s sawmills that are also extremely low input compared to larger commercial sawmills of today. All of our imported lumber is plantation grown, and not harvested from natural forests.
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