This week I was interviewed by Rebecca Ittner for an upcoming article for
Romantic Homes Magazine. Thank you Rebecca. It was really fun to chat about how it all got started for me and hearing stories about what she does with salvage stuff in her home.
First...I've always been interested in salvage, vintage, basically...old stuff or used stuff. Even as a kid I was digging in the backyard for bottles and in the "junk" room trying to create things -- crazy kid I was. Anyway, when I meet my husband he was building a cabin in the woods. It was love at first sight (both the guy and the cabin). I joined in helping. The 700 square foot cabin butt up to a national forest--a magical place. It was powered by a wind turbine my then-boyfriend had put in the backyard. We spent our dates sanding old doors to uses as cabinetry, tiling, hammering...and once and a while we would take a break and read all day on the couch surrounded by vintage diamond paned windows or cross-country skiing. I miss that cabin, especially on beautiful days like today. It was a very special place. Incredibly romantic, a wonderful place to start our relationship. The memories will always be there and it was just the beginning of designing with salvage and our family's journey.
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| Look at that handsome guy working away! He misses the old Land Rover as well. |
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| Check out the vintage windows and the beams made from trees from the land. |
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| Almost done. The cabinet doors are made from old doors cut in half, vintage sink and old windows. I still have that antique wood bowl, it now sits in our entrance way of our new home. |
