We Reclaim Wood, Reclaim History, and Reclaim Lives
A reclaimed wood yard in Auburn, Georgia, run by two brothers. Every order puts people coming out of recovery to work — that is not a side story, it is why the shop exists.
Building homes and second chances from Auburn, Georgia.
Everything about Beechcreek Timber starts with a creek in Georgia — and two brothers building second chances from Auburn.
The Creek We Named It After
There’s a creek we played in as kids — my brother and me, before everything came apart.
We were both troublesome youth. Drugs took years from us, and they took our relationship with them — we went our separate ways and stayed that way through the worst of it.
Then we both went through a rehab program. Coming out the other side, we found our way back to each other — and not long after, he called me. There was a barn coming down the street from his house — a whole 1800s barn they were going to pull, and we could go in and take it however we wanted.
So we did. We hauled it out, milled it, and built things: furniture, custom pieces for restaurants. We sold some of the lumber. Then we found another barn, and another. Eight years later it’s a full-time business — and it grew straight out of the thing that brought us back together.
We named it Beechcreek after that creek, because the wood isn’t the only thing here that got reclaimed. Both of us are 18-plus years in recovery now. Woodworking is what put us back in the same room.
(People spell us both ways — Beechcreek Timber and Beech Creek Timber. We answer to either.)
Why We Build
People love these beams in their homes, and that matters to us. But it isn’t the reason we get up in the morning.
We build so we can put people to work — including people rebuilding their lives, the way we had to rebuild ours. We’ve taught carpentry to young guys trying to find a way forward, and we’ve watched what steady work and a skill can do for somebody who’s been counted out.
Recovery gave us a second chance. This shop is how we hand that forward. That’s why our mission is the one we actually live by: we reclaim wood, reclaim history, and reclaim lives — building homes and second chances.
Real History, Not a Finish
The timber we work with came out of barns built in the 1800s across Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
Look closely at a hand-hewn face and you’ll see axe marks — cut by hand, a lot of it by Amish builders, more than a century ago. The beams are imperfect on purpose: 7 inches on one side, 8 on the other, live edge still on some of them. Many were joined with wooden pegs instead of nails — green wood driven into dried peg holes so that as the wood cured it pulled the joint tighter. No fasteners. Just craft that outlasted the men who built it.
That’s what you can’t fake, and it’s why we don’t sell new lumber dressed up to look old. Wood this age has already done all its moving, twisting, and shrinking. What you install is what you keep.
How We Work With You
We’re a working shop. Every beam is built by hand to your dimensions in Auburn, Georgia — mitered corners, planed backs, borate treated, sanded on request. A showroom is coming with our new location; until then, we’ll send you samples and real photos of real boards.
The person comes before the sale. We’ll educate you for free on everything we do, work inside your budget where we can, and tell you honestly when something isn’t the right fit.
We’re straight about what we can’t do. We don’t mill other people’s wood, we don’t install (we’ll point you to contractors who do), and we can’t let you hand-pick boards before a build — the wood isn’t milled yet, finishing changes the color, and 1800s hewing is beautifully unpredictable.
We ship nationwide — full length, tarped and strapped.
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