Creating from Hidden Beauty
Rescuing corporate store waste and using ancient Appalachian thrift and techniques to beautify your space.
Rescued Wood
We rescue wood from the corporate big box stores. These boards aren’t perfect. They may be stained, split or bent, so the store just throws them away. Tons of beautiful pine, oak, and walnut boards are going to a landfill. We try to do a small part of creation care by rescuing them for our works.
Ancient Economy
Whether it was the Native Americans who lived in the Moshannon Valley or our personal ancestors who settled there, Lost Run Woodworks maintains a “don’t waste anything” and “make do with what you have” mentality. Therefore, we use rescued wood and minimal tooling to bring beauty to your home.
Beautiful Creations
The beauty of ancient handmade isn’t in the perfect symmetry. It is in the natural beauty with the practicality that the wood produces as it is shaped in the woodworker’s hands.
Featured Creations
Decorative hemlock trees like those on the sidehills along Alder Run in the Northern Moshannon Valley near where Alder Run flows into the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. Includes lighting kit, decorative greens, and crate.
Made to order. Please allow two weeks for creation and shipping.
One of a kind. This is a rescued stair tread made into gorgeous wall shelves. Finished with a chestnut stain that brings out the grain of the veneer, this set will bring beauty to your den or living room.
On the edge of the field, the sun sets in a way that reflects off the fallen trees producing a reddish-brown color. These risers duplicate that color, bringing the reddish-brown, late day light into your home decor.
Created from a split pine board that was rescued from a big box store.
One of a kind, it is only available as a three-riser set.