Over the Loft Hall Table

The old flooring boards, used as skip sheeting on the barn roof, are riddled with holes from the roofing nails and coated in a century’s worth of grime and dust. But once in twenty boards or so, a promising grain pattern can be seen through the dirt layer. Cleaned up, the boards are revealed to be longleaf, curly heart-pine. Edge-glued sections framed out with oak make up the case for the Over the Loft Hall Table. A piece of the roof tin that once was nailed to the skip sheeting now clads the ends of the table.

Log tongs, possibly once used for creosote-dipping fence posts, are buckled to the table ends. The center clevis for the tongs is now the door pull.