We love drooling over unusual houses here at Architectural Classics. We’d probably do it much more often, but we keep shorting out keyboards and having to replace them. The boss gets a bit piddled when you are working on a laptop … anyway! Here’s an old house with a difference - a crucial one! It is made entirely out of old doors! Well, just about entirely. The roof is not made out of old doors - although that would have been a superb idea, they could have had skylights all through the house, at no extra cost! Make it a screen door and you’d be all set. We are not sure if all...

Here are a couple of things I bet you didn’t know about architectural salvage. For starters, when you recycle something that is in an old house in another house, did you know that you are actually ‘un-building’, in a Mad Hatter twist on renovation?! It is also known as Deconstruction, although I think the Deconstructivists might have something to say about that. Around 85% of materials in old homes can be re-used, according to a non-profit association in Pennsylvania in the States. So here we are looking at some of the ways you can use unbuilt houses in building or decorating...

There are two camps of antique-lovers in the world, we have found … they are both just as passionate as each other in their love of the old, but don’t quite agree on how to keep and display their antiques. In the silver corner, wearing the bright and shiny trunks, and weighing in at 142 pounds, we have the ‘New-Antiquarians … arians…arians’! These guys love old things, but also love their old things to look like new, and be nice and clean. The dirt of the ages is not what they had in mind when they started their collections! Then, in the dark and musty corner, in the mellow patinated...

All sorts of architectural salvage pieces can look great in your home – and depending on how you use them, many things can look great in any home, whether your décor is modern to dedicated antiquarian. The key things to remember are that you are not limited by a piece’s original use – you are only limited by your imagination – and just remember to check with the laws of physics records before you start! Here we’ll present for you a condensed version of the parliamentary session on laws of physics for architectural salvage: in ordinary terms, we’re going to do “Replacing Bits of Your...