Idaho Wood, founded in 1975, designs and manufactures wooden architectural lighting fixtures and specialty timber products for residential and commercial environments. Lighting products include wall sconces, pendant lights, bollards and landscape lights. Specialty timber products include mantels, posts and beams, corner braces, corbels, custom brackets, pavilions, pergolas, trellis’, shutters and the like. All products are made of top quality western red cedar and crafted to exacting standards… Show more Idaho Wood, founded in 1975, designs and manufactures wooden architectural lighting fixtures and specialty timber products for residential and commercial environments. Lighting products include wall sconces, pendant lights, bollards and landscape lights. Specialty timber products include mantels, posts and beams, corner braces, corbels, custom brackets, pavilions, pergolas, trellis’, shutters and the like. All products are made of top quality western red cedar and crafted to exacting standards at our workshop in Oxford, North Carolina. Show less

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