Whitney Wood Works proudly specializes in earth-friendly building materials and non-toxic finishes which are available in a wide variety of options. On each and every project we work closely with you to determine the materials that best suit your needs.

Eco-Friendly Options & Explanations

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• Reclaimed materials such as barn board salvaged from collapsed barns and 100 year old maple floorboards salvaged from renovated houses.

• Traditional Hardwoods harvested from sustainably managed forests.

• German Beech, and Lyptus—new species of hardwoods

These newer hardwoods have the same beautiful qualities of traditional North American Hardwoods but are harvested from more plentiful sources and are more easily renewable. Example 1  Example 2

• Wheat Fiber board —a replacement for traditionally made particleboards.

Made from an abundant, annually renewable resource – wheat straw—Wheatboard is manufactured using polyurethane resin as a binder, in place of the conventional formaldehyde binders found in many competitive fiberboard products. The result is a strong, smooth and lightweight finished fiberboard that’s high quality, cost-effective and eco-friendly.

Click on this link for a photo of a kitchen we recently built using Wheatboard veneered with Cherry wood. It was a creative solution that provided the beautiful look of a cherry kitchen made from an 80% rapidly renewable resource—wheat.

Wheatboard also stains and finishes beautifully and we have used it in commercial applications such as in an Outpost Natural Foods store in Milwaukee, WI. Please click here for a photo.

• Finishes, Paints and Stains.

Follow this link to the website of one of our favorite eco-friendly suppliers—BioShield Paints. They’ve been using earth-safe ingredients for centuries!