Room Corner Log

[Gabby12]

Might be kind of an unusual request of this forum but my thoughts that lead me here were - you all know wood so why not ask..

I am build an addtion on our house and in doing so there will of course be a wood stove as one corner of room focal point.
On another corner of the room I keep envisioning a log running from floor to ceiling.
The room has a vaulted 12' high (in center) ceiling but 8' high ceiling in corner where I want to install this log.

What I am thinking is finding a long - 8' in lenght - that will be cut to fit in corner with a 90 degs. wedge in back to go into corner nicely.
I am thinking a log that is about 12" in diameter maybe a little more but not so big that it is out of proportion to the room (24'x24'.

Looking for ideas and some photos that might help provide my wife with my vision.

Any help here?

 

[Blue Vomit]

Kind of like a lumberjack stripper pole?
I like it.
A friend of mine has 2 cedar posts in his kitchen. They came from his back yard and look great. They run from the kitchen island to the ceiling.
Good luck

 

[Gabby12]

I had to read your post twice - lumberjack stripper pole
That is what i am thinking.
Just looking fo ideas - maybe type of wood- bark/no bark etc.

 

[swagler85]

No bark, shouldn't be too hard to find a tree. Just need to find someone with a saw mill to cut the back of the log. That would look really good.

 

[swagler85]

I have a square version of that. It's pine boards stained dark. The room had some supports in the corners that where covered with drywall. I didn't like that so made these to cover the corners.

 

[WhitePine]

Kind of like a lumberjack stripper pole?

Blue Vomit (now there's a screen name), I will be sending you the bill for cleaning my computer screen and wasting a good beer.

Lumberjack stripper pole indeed. Wonder if the wood burner formerly known as Carbon Liberator has one.

 

[Ralphie Boy]

Kind of like a lumberjack stripper pole?
I like it.
A friend of mine has 2 cedar posts in his kitchen. They came from his back yard and look great. They run from the kitchen island to the ceiling.
Good luck

Once I got my mind around the

Kind of like a lumberjack stripper pole?
I like it.
A friend of mine has 2 cedar posts in his kitchen. They came from his back yard and look great. They run from the kitchen island to the ceiling.
Good luck

Lumberjack stripper pole!?! Quick! Get me the mind bleach!

 

[BEConklin]

Personally I'd look for white pine....from a tree that has grown in amongst lots of other pines so it grows straight and tall without that many branches. It peels easily, looks nice and the branches come in whorls that happen more or less evenly spaced up the length of the log. And you have the added benefit that it doesn't weigh as much as a hardwood log. I've got quite a few smaller examples of such trees on my new property - already dead - and just waiting for me to haul them out - I'm thinking they'll serve as posts for a rustic wood storage shed sometime in the future

 

[BEConklin]

another great choice would be eastern red cedar. Bit tougher to peel but the naked logs have a great look to them.

 

[firefighterjake]

Giant cat scratching post?

 

[DanCorcoran]

I'd be more interested in a lumberjill stripper pole....

 

[Lumber-Jack]

Blue Vomit (now there's a screen name), I will be sending you the bill for cleaning my computer screen and wasting a good beer.

Lumberjack stripper pole indeed. Wonder if the wood burner formerly known as Carbon Liberator has one.

Well, no I don't.

But I like the idea, and I've been tossing around similar ideas for my stove room for a few years now. We bought our house about 5 years ago and renovated practically every inch of the place with the exception for the room where the stove is. It has a 10 ft ceiling and I've been thinking of putting rough cut beams at the top of the walls and across the ceiling, with rough cut posts in the corners that look like they are supporting those beams. I've also toyed with the idea of using log posts in the corners, but I didn't think logs would go with the rough cut beams as well as the posts would.

When the stove is pumping out heat it does get very warm in there and I often find myself shedding cloths, perhaps if I do decide to use logs posts in the corners I'll leave some branches on the logs to hang the cloths on..... Hmmm?, Pictures may be forthcoming...

 

[firefighterjake]

I actually do have part of a small tree on the second floor of my garage . . . a 4 inch (diameter) or so black cherry that I bolted on to a rafter . . . my wife thought the cats might like to use it as a climbing tree since they do not go outdoors. Maybe I can suggest the lumber jill stripper pole to her . . .