salvage

We went to Housewerks today. Housewerks is a really neat architectural salvage shop.

Old stuff is a passion of mine, and we spent about 90 minutes going through their 2 floors worth of gems. The warehouse was full of window panels, old lamp parts, old sinks and bathtubs, a lot of iron gates and grates, old signage, chandeliers, and other miscellany. After getting our hands very dirty from digging around, we walked away with the following for $22:

6 iron and/or brass lamp bases (I think) and 5 coat hooks.



We hung the lamp parts up on our living room wall:

I clearly need to figure out how to take proper photos. The top picture is with a flash and looks too artificial, but the bottom one without the flash looks too fuzzy. Oh well...

We're planning on making a coat rack with the hooks, but we first need to find the right piece of salvaged, distressed wood (or even better, a nice rectangular window/stained glass panel).