“They just don’t make them like they used to” applies more to big wooden beams more than almost any other home build­ing mate­r­ial out there – gigan­tic old-growth trees are few and far between these days, and soft­wood like Dou­glas Fir (while not tech­ni­cally exotic) can be hard to come by. Found for sale via var­i­ous sal­vage oper­a­tions, the core struc­ture is com­posed of huge reclaimed beams that mea­sure as much as a few feet wide – mak­ing tra­di­tional 2x4s and other dimen­sional lum­ber look a lit­tle small by com­par­i­son. Built-ins are also made of col­or­ful recy­cled woods, while pri­mary walls and floors were cre­ated of smooth con­crete to cre­ate contrast.