Subway tile backsplash
A popular trend in home decor is the use of salvaged antique subway tile. The LA Times discusses this here in a recent story.
Cutler kitchen photo credits: Ringo H.W. Chiu
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Tile in the News
Customer Showcase: Encaustic Tile Floor
Here at Olde Good Things, our customers are the best originators–reusing salvaged materials and revitalizing them–transforming them into perfect accents in new building projects. Here’s an example. One of our customers purchased a reclaimed encaustic tile floor and put together his own design. This added a really nice touch to an otherwise simple cement stoop. Quite an artist isn’t he? We’ll be glad to showcase any of our customers’ work and put it on our blog for all our readers to get ideas, so feel free to send us pictures if you’ve implemented olde good things in your redesign or building project.
LA Stores On Television’s ‘Best Buys’
Our Los Angeles stores were featured on ‘Best Buys’ with Alan Mendelson. Click to see the video.
Tudor Accouterments
While many of you know of our beautiful stained glass collection, you may not know that we have a huge selection of trim, woodwork, crown moulding, paneling, and mantels. Well we do. In fact we have some sets of entire rooms that are collected from some prestigious homes across the U.S.
These pictures you are seeing are of a new home built a few years ago. The builders bought an entire room from the Constable Estate in New York, better known as the West Chester Day School. Each room in the estate was designed and decorated in a different style.
The Pump
If you live in New York City, or if you’re just a health food fanatic, then you may have heard of The Pump Energy Foods. With several locations across the city, they are growing and recently opened a store at the corner of Pine & Pearl.
Entrancing Entrance
The before image
Five years ago there was a set of doors that was removed from a structure in a South American city. The doors were placed in a cargo container and transported over sea and rail for several weeks until they finally arrived at our warehouse in Scranton. Here they were removed from the container, dusted off, and photographed before being slid between other doors of similar size and stature, and left in storage for the time. The photographs were posted on our web store.
There these doors stood, over crowded and unappreciated, for many months. The shadows of passing customers would cast onto the frame, light would bounce from admiring faces that would only walk on to leave the magnificent portal untouched. Until finally, near the eve of Christmas, 2006, a returning customer was browsing our web store and caught a glimpse of a thumbnail, and decided to purchase the entryway.
Front door installed
A Classic Revival
Tucked away in a quiet neighborhood in Northeastern Pennsylvania are several perfect examples of salvaged materials being given new life. The owners of this house frequented our warehouse finding multiple items to revive, giving ultimate character to their home. This shows that reclaimed architecture can be very beautiful as well as rewarding when used in the proper setting.
Interior view of house using salvaged materials
Olde Good Things In the Movies, Part 1
Here’s the first installment of what we hope to be a continuing series, Olde Good Things in the movies. The set above is from the 2004 movie The Forgotten (with Julianne Moore). The clock face is originally from the Shamokin (Pa.) clock tower (which had a unique history of its own, see also here and here).
The glass panels are actually corrugated with embedded chicken wire, reclaimed from industrial buildings and manufacturing plants. No longer manufactured, we’re the only remaining source of this glass, as far as we know. It’s also been used successfully in canopies as well as vertical walls and room dividers.
Also olde good things are the wooden table with industrial base (one of our specialties) and the wooden shelves in the background.
Olde But Good Video
This is an older edition of Home & Backyard (WNEP Channel 16) featuring Olde Good Things that we salvaged from the archives. The warehouse doesn’t quite look the same, but it’s still good for some design ideas.
Repurposing 101
Designer Kelly Giesen remodeled an Upper West Side NYC home using salvaged materials almost exclusively, including several olde good things such as this mantel (enclosing a flat screen tv!). This video originally aired on NBC’s Open House NYC.
Kelly’s work was also featured in a New York Times Home & Garden article.
Click the image to see the video!
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