Architecture, Building Materials
Sometimes finding period building materials can be a challenge. Vintage Woodworks, located in Quinlan Texas, hopes to help. Their web site is chock full of interior and exterior trim, brackets, headers, casings, corner blocks and …
Written by: Marc Lyman
Who says Heavy Metal is dead? Not the folks over at Decorative Iron. I stumbled across DecorativeIron.com while researching metal supplies. Our house has a fair amount of wrought iron and I was already contemplating …
Written by: Marc Lyman
Sometimes stained glass looks great, other times it really looks bad. We have not quite figured out if the we like the stained glass on one of our windows. If it is original to the …
Written by: Marc Lyman
Building resources is an eco-friendly non-profit located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Among other things, they provide used materials donated by homeowners, remodelers, contractors, etc. They accept tax-deductible donations of clean, reusable materials. Building …
Written by: Marc Lyman
Get your tiles right here: marble, granite, porcelain, terracota, baby. . . baby tiles?! A company in Arizona called Photo Form has developed a process enabling the creation of custom tiles with bas relief based …
Written by: Marc Lyman
One thing I love is replacing old crap with new stuff. Light fixtures, door knobs, load-bearing walls. . . that kind of thing. Usually a question that comes up after removing the old stuff is, …
Written by: Marc Lyman