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Building Material Websites

Building Material Websites and Salvage Dealers

The following is just a small listing of places you can find some salvaged and architectural building materials. Certain items may be impossible to find. If you are building a new home, the $400 - 600 you spend to create your stockpile will be worth much more years from now. It will actually become a selling feature when you decide to move to another home. The buyers of your home will be amazed at how forward thinking you were! Look in your Yellow Pages for Architectural Antique dealers or Salvaged Building Materials.

Auction Websites:

www.ebay.com - this place is an enormous flea market. Be careful! Make sure you get the goods before you release all the money!

 

www.amazon.com - Snoop around, what you want may be on sale!

 

www.driftwoodsalvage.com/index.html - They have some interesting stuff!

Architectural Antiques:

Greg's Antiques - 513-241-5487; located in Cincinnati, Ohio, Greg's has old mantles, gas chandeliers, street lights, old iron gates, and much much more.......

Wooden Nickel Antiques - 513-241-2985; www.woodennickelantiques.net. Also located in Cincinnati, Ohio. You should see the awesome walnut fireplace mantle I bought from them. It has twisted rope pillars and is hand carved. They have all sorts of terra cotta trim, iron fencing, all sorts of unique, old stuff. They even have old glass! Yes, wavy, bubbled glass to match 100 year old windows!

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