Fun with salvaged items
Posted October 18, 2007 
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Comments(1) From the start, Rae and I had planned on using salvaged or recycled items in as many areas as we could, but things didn’t turn out quite that way. Nothing really jumped out at us in the local yards we visited, and a couple things we did like were beyond our budget even at this stage in their lives.
We’d given up hope of finding some stained glass for use inside the house above the bathroom doors and the idea of finding a set of cool looking lights for the kitchen, but then on a return trip from Boston we visited http://www.vermontsalvage.com/ and hit the jackpot!
Amazingly we found both – a simple set of stained glass windows from England and a pair of exterior “ship type lights” from India.
[...] excavating for the front steps, we also laid down wiring for our outdoor lights. Purchased from an architectural salvage store, and originally from India, these fixtures required nothing more than wiring in to a motion [...]