Category Archives: kitchen backsplash

Unexpectedly Salvaging

Posted on January 5, 2011 by

I relish putting antique materials back where they belong.  Re-hanging mantels back onto raw brick openings in old houses; installing hundred year old medicine cabinets into the wall cavity of a bathroom, complete with imperfect beveled mirrors, the silvering flawed … Continue reading →

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The Silence of the Lambs Basement of Old Junque

Posted on May 18, 2010 by

I get a huge kick out of amassing great quantities of old junk.  Not just junk really, but “junque.”  That’s French and that makes it valuable.  I kid, sorta.

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