Articles tagged “Architectural Salvage”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Wine Box Shelving and 20 Other Projects To Make From Wooden Wine Boxes By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Home & Garden Mar 23 2010 When you choose to live a more sustainable life, you take a pledge to keep and use items until they can't be used any more. Wine boxes or wine crates made of wood are often used for shipping wine and then discarded. + READ MORE

Chandelier Envy (Part 2): All That Glitters Can Be Made From Recycled Materials By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Home & Garden Mar 15 2010 With the possibility of DIY always looming in the greenscape, pricey lighting options can become attainable. + READ MORE

5 Green Improvements That Will Add Value to Your Home By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Oct 28 2009 When you own a house, there may seem like a never-ending list of things you want to improve, whether cosmetic -- like finally replacing peeling wallpaper or adding a splash of color with new paint -- or more functional, as with more insulation in the attic, or a more efficient heating system.Research conducted in the... + READ MORE

How to Reclaim a Light Switch By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Mar 30 2009 Remember when you were a kid and you'd flip the lights on and off really fast and your mom told you that it would start a fire? Apparently, that's mostly superstition. Although theoretically possible. + READ MORE

How to Reclaim Floorboards By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Mar 23 2009 Here is how you reclaim floorboards. It is, theoretically, an easy task. However, those floorboards have been there for years. They will be hard to pry up. The job will prove both tedious and frustrating. + READ MORE

How to Reclaim a Cupboard Door By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Mar 16 2009 When asked the question, "If you could run back into your burning house to save one item, what would it be?" No one has ever said, "my cupboard doors." Probably because they'd perish in the fire trying to remove them. In fact, most people don't take their cupboard doors when they move. That means that cupboard doors are ripe for the plucking. + READ MORE

How to Reclaim a Garage Door By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Mar 9 2009 Not much has been written on the subject of garage doors. No one has written a novel about a garage door who has an existential crisis. There aren't any action films where the plot revolves around a garage-door heist, and a cartoon about a talking garage door would probably put kids to sleep or scare them. They are the unsung heroes of the house. They are both wall and door. + READ MORE

How to Reclaim a Prefab One-Piece Shower Stall By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Mar 2 2009 The bathroom that holds the auxiliary shower stall is usually the support bathroom of the house. The tub-centric main-floor bathroom is where all the real action is at. However, a reserve bathroom is great if you've got oodles of kids or you've got a boarder living in your basement. + READ MORE

How to Reclaim Gutters By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Feb 23 2009 Everyone likes gutters on the side of a house but very few people like ending up in the gutter outside of their house. The house-hugging gutters can be a great benefit to the sustainability of your home. They keep water away from the foundation, preventing water damage. They can also route water into rain barrels, cisterns or other grey water systems. Good news for you salvagers and reclaimers, most people don't take their gutters when they abandon a house. + READ MORE

How to Reclaim a Window By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Feb 13 2009 Windows are made of fragile, fragile glass, and they can easily end up getting smashed in by a baseball, a stone or even a smaller window that somebody threw during a fight. Use your putty knife to remove the metal track. Once the stops are out, you should be able to remove the lower sash. + READ MORE

How to Reclaim a Garbage Disposal By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Feb 9 2009 Last week, I wrote a post called "How to Reclaim a Kitchen Sink." In the article, I briefly cover removing a garbage disposal in order to remove the sink. + READ MORE

How to Reclaim a Kitchen Sink By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Jan 30 2009 In my experience, the only people who remove the kitchen sink are cartoon characters trying to be funny. Most humans, however, don't remove their kitchen sink when moving out of or abandoning a home. I've seen a few sinkless houses in my days, ransacked by vandals who probably sold the metal sinks for scrap. Sinks are going to be one of those items that are ripe for the architectural salvaging. Here is how. + READ MORE

How to Reclaim a Toilet By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Jan 26 2009 Rarely are there toilets unique and precious enough to pack up and move with the other furniture and possessions. Maybe if someone installs a waterless john, a low-flow model or some sort of Omni-Flush 6000 8-in-1 Toilet of the Gods, you?d remove it and take it to your new home. + READ MORE

How to Reclaim a Bathtub By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Jan 16 2009 When I was home for the holidays, my buddy called me up to help him remove a bathtub from his sister?s house. I went over there and we carried the cast-iron bathtub out onto the porch. He said he was going to take the tub to the dump, and I tried to convince him to sell it for scrap metal and told him he could probably get a pretty decent price for it. + READ MORE

How to Reclaim a Doorbell By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Jan 12 2009 Whatever someone's reason for abandoning a house, it might be a good thing to reclaim parts of the house left behind. A doorbell is one of those easy-to-reclaim pieces that is often left behind by a former tenant. As a stalwart salvager, you'll probably want to reclaim the doorbell for your own home. + READ MORE

How to Reclaim a Ceiling Fan By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Jan 5 2009 Ceiling fans are a great way to save some bucks on heating and cooling bills. They also add drama to almost any tense situation, their blades slowly swooshing as an intense scene unfolds. + READ MORE

How To Reclaim a Light Fixture By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Dec 29 2008 Salvaging a light fixture easy. It's a whole lot easier than actually building a light fixture. Imagine trying to build one from scratch. You'd have to go out and mine resources, smelt metal, hammer copper, etc. It would probably take years to become good at it. Think about that from an environmental standpoint. Reclaiming something that's already built is a whole lot easier on the supply chain then building something new. OK! Let's get started. + READ MORE