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730 Stanyan, right at the edge of Golden Gate Park.

We supplied log benches and stumps for this 160-unit affordable housing community, built for families, formerly unhoused families, and Transitional Age Youth in the heart of Haight-Ashbury.

Who we worked with ⤵️

Contractor: Cahill Contractors
Landscape Architecture: GLS Landscape | Architecture

📍 San Francisco, CA

Across Oakland, schoolyards once dominated by asphalt and underused lawn are being reimagined as spaces where kids can actually explore.

As part of Oakland Unified School District’s Living Schoolyards Initiative, we supplied log benches and stumps for the transformation.

Who we worked with:
• Landscape Architecture: Siegfried

📍 Oakland, CA

Have a project in mind? We‘d love to help bring it to life.

60 custom benches, built for the San Quentin Learning Center.

Who we worked with⤵️
Contractor: McCarthy Building Companies
Architect: Integrated Design Firm

📍 San Quentin, CA

Have a project in mind? We‘d love to help bring it to life.

Work in progress 🏗️

750 Golden Gate, for Mid-Peninsula Housing.

Built alongside:

Developer: MidPen Housing
Architect: David Baker Architects
Contractor: Cahill Contractors

📍 San Francisco, CA

Work in progress 🏗️

750 Golden Gate, for Mid-Peninsula Housing.

Built alongside:

Developer: MidPen Housing
Architect: David Baker Architects
Contractor: K Hill Contractors

📍 San Francisco, CA

Historically, all of our wood has come from urban reclaimed trees, salvaged from cities instead of forests.

But we’ve got a new interest: fire salvaged trees from the catastrophic fires affecting California’s forests. Wood that would otherwise be left behind to enter the wastestream.

This is one of the most sustainable ways to source wood. It reuses a finite resource, and it actively avoids deforestation.

In 2025, the Sierra National Forest was hit by the Garnet Fire. We were able to acquire roughly 20,000 board feet of fire salvaged Cedar, and we decided to give it a second life.

A lot of this wood gets written off. Large production sawmills consider these logs unusable because of the defects fire leaves behind. But underneath that damage, there’s still a huge amount of good, usable wood.

So instead of leaving it to rot, we hauled it out.

This is where it ends up: as real building materials, right here in the Bay Area.

🪵 Fire Salvaged Cedar

Nuevo Dia is a full nature play space built entirely around materials that were already on their way out of the built environment.

Inside the space:
• Log benches & stumps
• Play table & seating
• A chalkboard

Partners on this one⤵️
Client: Community Bridges and
Landscape architect: Jeni Webber and Associates

Wood that would’ve been mulched is now something kids climb on, read next to, and draw on.

🪵 Redwood + Eucalyptus

Nuevo dia: full nature play space designed and built using salvaged urban wood.

What we built:
• Log benches & stumps
• A little library
• Play table & seats
• Chalkboard

Built alongside:
• Client: Community Bridges
• Landscape Architect: Jeni Webber and Associates

Using wood that was already coming down in the built environment, we gave these materials a second life instead of letting them get mulched - transforming salvaged urban wood into natural play elements for the space.

🪵 Redwood + Eucalyptus

Did you know we offer a full range of products and services like:

• Tree Salvaging
• Tree Harvesting
• Material Hauling & Transportation
• Custom Millwork
• Material Supply
• Design Services
• Fabrication
• Installation

Need any of these for your next project?
Contact us, or check out our website for inspo.

www.bayarearedwood.com

For Brave Christian Elementary, we custom milled salvaged urban Redwood into a full nature play and garden space.

What we did:
• Log benches
• Stump tables
• Planter boxes

The Redwood logs themselves have their own story: they were taken down as part of a demolition project and salvaged by Ground Force Enterprises, who brought them to us for custom millwork, turning material that could’ve been discarded into a full outdoor classroom.

Built with Ground Force Enterprises.

🪵 Redwood