Architectural Salvage

Products of the Week

Vintage Doors produces hand-crafted, solid hardwood doors for every type of interior and exterior home project, including screen, Dutch, porch, and pet doors and garden gates.

Kitchen Cabinets, Counters, & Backsplashes

Crown Point Cabinetry offers custom cabinets for period style kitchens, baths, offices, laundry rooms, home bars and more. Styles include Shaker, Arts & Crafts, Early American, Victorian and Transitional.

Bathrooms

Specializing in high-performance water closets and the most technically challenging of ceramic products, the company surpasses industry standards and consumer expectations.

Repairs & How To

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

Repairs & How To

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

For a more eclectic look, you can use different styles of knobs—just make sure they have at least one unifying detail.

Repairs & How To

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

Bliss used reclaimed barnwood for her cabinet frame to match the patina of the antique window.

Repairs & How To

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.

The island was built from the back bar and topped with a custom-made zinc counter.

Web Exclusives

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.

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

Use our comprehensive guide to locate an architectural salvage store near you, or to browse the websites of stores across the country, many of which sell their wares online.

Digital

E-newsletters

A variety of salvaged ship lights hang on a wall at Olde Good Things in New York.

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

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

The gutsy centerpiece of the living room is the 10'-diameter mirror from the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach.

House Tours

Using salvaged materials, a vacant lot gets transformed into a SoHo townhome fully designed to look as if it were built in the late-19th century, just like its neighbors.

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

Shop at a salvage market for reasonably priced period materials that will enhance the authenticity of an old house.

Kitchens & Baths

A bathroom gets a new do.

Interiors & Decorative Accessories

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

Old House Gardens & Exteriors

Repurposing a window grate.

House Tours

Architectural salvage helped fix a jarring addition.

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Architectural Salvage & Antiques

Salvaging brick, stone, granite, limestone, vintage lumber and other architectural artifacts to ensure that the “bones” of beautiful old buildings have an extended life as today’s design elements.