Monday, October 15, 2007

The Twilight Zone

Since I'm on the theme of old cheesy TV shows from the 60's and 70's I'll stick with it. The photo at left is the kind of twilight zone type thing you'll see while salvage shopping.

Imagine being in a huge lofty warehouse building looking through rows and rows of doors with miscellaneous baby carriages and strollers strewn about. Where are you?



Why at Salvage One of course! I have to say that I absolutely loved the place this time visit. Not only did I love the space, but I loved the fact that their door prices were waaaay lower than my previous entry.









So, we went through some more doors. I swear, we must have touched a few hundred in one day.

Look at this cute little baby door! I wanted to take it home.



So many different and cool doors. I love doors. I'm just kind of tired of sanding wood you know? If only they would sand themselves.



Of course, when you go salvage shopping, you have to look around. A room of porcelain!! To a houseblogger, this is like stumbling on Aladdin's treasure.

We found a door similar to the the one at Architectural Artifacts. We found many cool doors that were not the right size.



And then we found this door with muntins like what our original windows had. Hmmm....



It needs some work. Some of the trim pieces that hold the glass in have to be re fabricated, but woodworker Steve can handle that. There's one coat of paint on it but 'Dirty Jobs' fan Jocelyn can handle that while grumbling a little.



As you can guess, we bought it.



To be continued...

3 comments:

merideth said...

i SO get your love of doors...i love looking through them at the salvage yard even though we have not one more place to put one...unless i want to get all DIY Network and make a headboard out of one...which i dont.

sparky said...

don't know your style, or the height of your ceilings, but doors on sliding tracks can be slid into different combinations to create and re-create living spaces/rooms

sparky said...

or find an appropriate, recessed panel door, have a tempered glass top cut to fit, fill the recesses with dried flowers or chotchkies, put the glass on top and, voila!
a conversation table