A no-style bathroom gets an affordable makeover, courtesy of reclaimed and salvaged materials and good design. No need to gut the room.

Ultimate salvaging: a schoolhouse becomes a home.

Old conservatory windows found at a salvage yard became pocket doors separating bedrooms.

Incorporating repurposed elements kept a modern room warm and in sync with the 1905 house.

Five unusual projects might inspire you to head to your local architectural salvage yard!

An aesthetically and historically appropriate use of reclaimed wood serves a kitchen.

It’s trendy to repurpose five-panel doors as headboards, and to up-cycle vintage hard-shell suitcases into dog beds. For restorers, the best use of architectural salvage is to replace missing architectural details that should never have been lost in the first place.

A homeowner with a penchant for early antiques invites a preservation consultant in to help her unscramble a house initially built with architectural salvage.

Repurpose salvaged cabinet knobs by turning them into a row of handy hooks.

From transforming antique doors into a fireplace surround or building a shelf using salvaged corbels and fence boards, we show you six different ways to breathe new life into old items.

All about salvage! Tour three houses in which the owners incorporated architectural salvage; then see a few fun projects, and jump to our comprehensive guide to salvage stores around the country.

Mid-20th-century ship lights are rewired and polished up to become attractive wall sconces or lamps.

Bits and pieces stored in the basement found their way into a handsome bench for my back stairs.

Repurposing a window grate.