Ways to use charred wood in various projects.

Facades

After charring and cleaning the wood, its operational and decorative qualities are greatly improved, so cladding the facade with such boards is a good solution.

The material for finishing works, as a rule, is subjected to surface or deep firing (there is also a full one), then polished with brass brushes to remove soot and carbon deposits, impregnated with hemp oil using a brush or spray gun and covered with a turpentine solution with the addition of wax.

Thanks to the facade of burnt wood, country houses in the country or chalet style, as well as small summer cottages with old Russian motifs look especially original.

Doors and windows

Fire treatment makes wood resistant to deformation under the influence of temperature and humidity changes, and also durable and very beautiful, so many owners install doors and windows from such material at their summer cottages. In combination with antique fittings they look especially impressive.

For the manufacture of windows and doors you will need dense, strong and expensive wood: oak, beech, hornbeam. Under the influence of flame these species lose only the top layer (10-12%), and in return they receive a deep dark brown color with a noble ash-gray shade.

The raw materials must be well dried before firing – the humidity of the blanks should not exceed 15%.

Even plastic windows and metal doors can look harmonious in the frame of shutters and platbands made of burnt wood, and wooden ones even more so. Available wood species are suitable for such products: larch, maple, ash.

On the little houses-teremok, decorated with popular print colors, burnt carved shutters and platbands look amazing. You can try to make them yourself if you have artistic and carpentry skills.

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Interior decoration

When burnt wood fits well into the architectural ensemble and design of your dacha, why not cover the walls, floors or even ceilings with such material? The following materials are suitable for interior finishing: budget-friendly: pine, spruce, aspen.

Burnt boards will look great on the floor, clapboards on the walls, crossbars or false beams on the ceilings, and you can also use unedged boards in the interior of the dacha, which look soulful and nice simply because of the uneven edges and fancy patterns.

Important: any wood materials for interior finishing are burned in a safe, specially designated place, and only then mounted, otherwise you can burn down the house!

Furniture

Here is scope for the implementation of creative ideas, because from burnt wood you can make a lot of beautiful, durable and comfortable furniture:

• tables;
• benches;
• chairs;
• stools;
• armchairs;
• shelves;
• chests of drawers;
• wardrobes;
• chests;
• beds;
• bedside tables;
• shelves.

With the help of fire, you can decorate and make more reliable not only home furniture, but also garden furniture, for example, benches and a dining table for the barbecue area.

Decor

Decorative items made of burnt wood will help to complete the picture:

• figurines;
• vases;
• candlesticks;
• photo frames;
• picture frames;
• wall decorations.

To make the decor look brighter and more elegant, it can be covered with a special transparent varnish for wood.

Lamps

Lighting fixtures with their heating and natural wood – at first glance, these are incompatible things. But, as strange as it may sound, carefully burnt wood becomes heat-resistant. Anyone who has ever tried to relight a heavily charred log in a stove or on a fire will hardly be surprised.

Wooden lampshades and holders for chandeliers and sconces, carved legs of bedside lamps and floor lamps can be treated with flame.

Even from a solid beam, almost without cutting out anything, it is easy to make a pendant lamp, and if you decorate it with rough metal parts or elegant forged elements, you will get a self-sufficient memorable piece of furniture.

Dishes and utensils

Decorative objects and household utensils made of burnt wood will perfectly fit into the country house interior:

• plates;
• bowls;
• mugs;
• spoons;
• ladles;
• jugs;
• butter dishes;
• bread bins;
• trays;
• spice jars;
• cereal containers;
• honey barrels;
• cutting boards.

After charring, coniferous wood becomes especially resistant to water, because it contains a lot of resin, which melts and seals the pores. Therefore, it is best to plane dishes and household utensils from pine, cedar or larch.

Beds and flower beds

Let’s get out of the summer house and think about how to use burnt wood for landscaping the site. It’s a great idea to use this technology to make borders for vegetable beds and flower beds.

We’ve already praised this material for its fire resistance, moisture resistance and durability, but burnt boards are also of no interest to insect pests due to their hardness, dryness and lack of nutrients!

Fences and gates

A burnt country fence will look appropriate and original, and will also last for many years. Even a novice craftsman can make and properly process it with his own hands.

As a rule, a gas burner is used for charring in a handicraft way. Water or sand will help protect against the material catching fire.

Terraces and gazebos

You can also build an open extension to your house or a cozy gazebo for relaxing in the fresh air from burnt wood. This material looks surprisingly harmonious surrounded by a hedge or a blooming garden.

To achieve an expressive wood texture, choose alder, linden or poplar for building a terrace, pergola and other small architectural forms – these soft species burn strongly between the annual rings and in knotty areas, resulting in a beautiful relief.

The blanks are processed in the same way as boards for facade cladding. Burnt garden furniture, wall decorations and lamps will help to complete the ensemble.

Walking paths

The durability and resistance of fire-treated wood allows it to be used for arranging garden paths, paths between plantings and picnic areas. The easiest way to pave the sidewalk is with wide boards or heavy blocks, but you can do something more interesting.

If the surface is well protected from erosion, lay out a random pattern of burnt saw cuts of different diameters.

Garden sculptures

Wood carving lovers will love the idea of decorating their summer cottage with wooden sculptures processed with a torch and brushed to look antique. At the same time, this will extend their life in the open air.

In the garden or on the lawn, there will be a place for both miniature figures of gnomes, snails and bunnies, as well as giants, such as bears, elks and fairy-tale monsters, carved with a chainsaw in life-size.

Bath and sauna

When arranging your own bath or sauna, it is reasonable to use burnt wood, because it is resistant to ignition and is not afraid of consistently high air humidity. But the benefits don’t end there.

Make benches for the steam room from fire-treated birch. Its heat capacity is significantly reduced by this, you will be comfortable and not hot to sit and lie on such a surface.

In the steam room, for decorative and practical purposes, it is good to keep ladles, basins, tubs, tubs, stools and other bath attributes made of burnt wood.

Wine cellar

Charring, as a method of processing wood, should be adopted by brewers and winemakers, because homemade alcoholic drinks are perfectly stored in containers made of such material in the cellar.

Noble strong alcohol: whiskey, cognac, rum. This gives the product additional taste and aroma.

Well

If your dacha is built and decorated with traditional Russian flavor, build a chic well made of charred wood in the yard to emphasize the style. And a carved canopy and an oak bucket will complete the composition.