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Dirk Nykamp finds the best admirable things in the strangest places.He seeks out the best abject of debris and transforms these debris into works of art at his NightScape Studios reclaimed copse and deliver business on the south ancillary of Holland.�We try to use the affliction of the worst,� Nykamp said with a smile. �The actuality no one abroad would anytime use in a actor years, that�s my admired wood. I�ll acquisition a use for it. I adulation the belief abaft the old wood.�Every allotment tells a story.�The account abaft Nykamp�s wood-grained sample card, which promotes an accretion $1 million-a-year operation, ability assume unfathomable.He stumbled aloft some alluring ache while disturbing bottomward a barn in Drenthe about bristles years ago. He begin it on the third attic area the craven accommodation had been amid in the actual atom area hens were kept and laid eggs for three abounding decades.Hay was broadcast throughout the coop. Years of craven debris were caked to the floor. The acid odor was abundant of a challenge, but back Nykamp instructed his workers to deliver the ache attic beneath it, he said they stared at him in complete disbelief.�They anticipation I was absolutely insane,� Nykamp recalled. �I had them scrape it all down, and again we sanded and wire-brushed it. It�s absolutely on the walls of JB and Me at Breton Village Mall (in Kentwood). I�ve acclimated it in authoritative furniture. It aloof has this amazing abysmal amber blush that ache never gets to. The craven urine creates a beauteous arrangement of colors.�The �chicken---- wood,� as Nykamp refers to it, is his best admired possession.�I alone accept a little bit of it left. I�m accession it. I adulation that copse so much,� he said. �It�s so cool, but it�s so awful back you get it. It has a agnate aftereffect to it as hand-scraped floors. It doesn�t get abundant trashier than that, but hand-scraped copse can�t attempt with what 30 years of chickens accept done.�And no one is absolutely able to attempt with Nykamp�s beatnik business.The 36-year-old bedmate and ancestor of three began accession debris of copse and transforming them into pieces of appliance in 2001. He additionally seeks out old accouterments fixtures, bolts, fasteners, cables and added items that ability end up in a landfill and uses those abstracts � accumulated with reclaimed barge � to actualize one-of-a-kind custom home furnishings.�I adulation to assignment with old metal and old hardware. I�ve got about 20 bags of it here,� he said.His woodshop, at 428 W. 24th St., on the armpit of the old Standard Barge yard, uses reclaimed items to actualize bar tops, table tops, appliance and commodity displays for retailers. He additionally makes chandeliers and chaplet lights from old architect jars and wine bottles.He has about 450,000 lath anxiety of all sorts of reclaimed copse stored all about the 3�-acre site. He has two sawmills on the acreage and has affairs to arrect a kiln.Nykamp�s adroitness is featured central several bounded businesses.He got his big breach in 2003 back a advocacy from his uncle, Ross Nykamp, resulted in actuality assassin to accommodate the autogenous of JB and Me, 36 W. Eighth St., in city Holland.He spent four years on that activity while additionally active a janitorial casework company, which he founded in 1999 at age 21. He still owns Lakeshore Cleaning, but a accomplice operates the business.�I bought some accoutrement and I aloof started goofing off,� Nykamp said of his apprehensive ancestry as a woodworking craftsman. �I couldn�t allow annihilation abroad back I started, so I formed with old wood. I was aloof acquirements how to assignment with it back I started accomplishing JB and Me.�The beauteous aftereffect led to added high-profile adjustment projects. Schippers Construction, of Holland, works with Nykamp on the accession of all of his materials.�It�s amazing,� JB and Me Holland abundance administrator Laura Flom said of the alloy of avant-garde and best from Nykamp�s designs. �I�ve never apparent anyone do assignment like he does it. It�s aloof beautiful. I adulation it.�NightScape Studios has been assassin to absorb reclaimed copse appearance into the autogenous designs at Simpatico Coffee, 714 Michigan Ave.; Coppercraft Distillery, 184 120th Ave.; The Bag Lady, 21 E. Eighth St., and Itty Bitty Bar, 1136 Ottawa Beach Road.Simpatico Coffee Owner Alex Fink is captivated with the aftereffect at his place. Nykamp spelled C-O-F-F-E-E in morse cipher application albino copse cutouts anchored into the advanced bar surround.�All of our bar beleaguer is fabricated from reclaimed copse from Holland Christian�s bleachers and window trim from E.E. Fell Junior High School (now the Midtown Center),� Fink said.�It�s two adolescent Holland businesses alive together,� he said of accommodating with Nykamp to actualize a different feel in his bistro and coffee-roasting headquarters. �What we were activity for was automated modern. It�s coffee bar meets burghal loft. I anticipate it�s a air-conditioned space.�Nykamp, who has 12 employees, is advancing to accessible a exhibit and retail abundance this summer.His ultimate ambition is to become the Midwest�s better reclaimed copse distributor. That�s why he continues to buy old barn copse in accumulation quantities and keeps reinvesting profits in the business.�A lot of it is debris wood, but a lot of it is fantastic,� Nykamp said. �Our atom amount is about 3 percent. The guys will acquaint me they get balked because I won�t let them bandy annihilation away.�I consistently say, �I�ll acquisition a use for it.� I aloof anticipate annihilation is above saving.�� Follow this anchorman on Twitter @BizHolland.
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