I think I've shown you the kitchen of my old house. What I may not have mentioned is that I remodeled it using salvaged materials, much of it scrounged from the dump or pulled off of a burn pile. I kept the lower half of my kitchen, and most of the infrastructure of the upper cabinets, but I used salvaged windows and doors and trim to reface them.

In the next picture, I used garage door panels and some other salvaged wood and trim to make a corner cupboard. Farther on you will see two storage benches that I made from similar garage door panels. The window was one we purchased at a garage sale for about a tenth what it would have cost us. Outside the window are planter boxes, which you can't see, also made from salvaged wood.

In the next picture are garage doors for closet doors for one of the bedrooms. My motto was 'never pay for anything that you can get for free'. Other things I've salvaged are sheetrock, nails, plywood, and siding. Of the doors that I installed, most of them were either used or came from the Habitat store. Same with the trim.

posted on Jan 22, 2013 10:21 AM ()

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