December has blown in, bringing with it frosty mornings and early sunsets. But the change in the weather doesn’t bother us — winter is the perfect excuse for Aurora Mills to share a cup of hot cider with our visitors and showcase some of our favorite items: the winter sports antiques. Here are some of…
Archives for 2011
I’m Looking Through You: Unusual Windows
The Aurora Mills Architectural Salvage warehouse is a wonderland of vintage and unusual historic items. We love when folks come in and find an exact match to their ornate hardware or 5 panel door. We love it just as much when people come in and think of new ways to use our items. Here are…
Local Synergy Yields a Beautiful Result
When Oregon-made Gerber Legendary Blades was looking to buy hand-crafted wooden boxes, they went to Helms Woodworking, an Oregon-based company. When Helms Woodworking was looking to make their Gerber boxes from reclaimed barn wood, they came to us. The result is beautiful, both in form and practice: three Oregon-based companies, working locally to make a…
A Flood of New Objects at Aurora Mills
At Aurora Mills Architectural Salvage every day is new and different. New objects arrive, new visitors come in, new projects are proposed. Over the last few weeks we have accessioned over 100 new objects and while we are excited about all of them, 50 of them have struck our curiosity and fancy enough to make…
Aurora Mills Hits the Small Screen
Last night Aurora Mills Architectural Salvage came to primetime — on NBC’s Grimm! The much anticipated show is shot and set in Portland, Oregon and many of their furnishings came directly from our inventory. If you tuned in this week (which you should continue to do, at 9 p.m. on Fridays), we hope that you…
A Salvage Halloween
It’s one of our favorite times of year! Fall is officially here: the leaves are changing, the air is crisp and Halloween is right around the corner. At Aurora Mills Architectural Salvage, we have our own way of decorating pumpkins. Behold the creations of some of your friendly neighborhood salvagers — using antique hardware, and…
Reclaimed Wood Coffee Table
Sometimes customers come to Aurora Mills looking for specific resources to complete a vision. On Saturday we met Rob, a visitor who was looking for some reclaimed barn wood to build a coffee table. We were happy to be able to help him out. Here is what Rob said about his project: “I bought some…
Mid-Century Modern at Aurora Mills
It’s Mid-Century Modern week here at Aurora Mills Architectural Salvage. Looking through our inventory, we couldn’t help but notice that there is an abundance of brightly colored, boldly shaped furniture, lighting and decorative elements. If you are looking to add some whimsical modernity to your home, here’s a little inspiration — straight from the 1940’s and 50’s.
Restoring a caboose
Here at Aurora Mills we love to see how people use our unique items. Gary Groce turned his passion for the railroad into an amazing project restoring an old caboose. Gary purchased two railroad lamps for Aurora Mills for his project and rewired them so they could be used again. Check of these photos of…
Aurora Mills Update July 2011
July 2011 It has been a little while since our last update because we’ve been so busy with lots of new projects. At the beginning of June we returned from one of our buying trips and have added thousands of new items in the store. We picked up a number of old shoe stitching racks,…