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 Architectural Salvage has gathered ideas for cold frames and green houses using reclaimed and recycled windows and doors. Old windows and doors can be used to make green and sustainable green houses and cold frames. Aurora Mills Architectural Salvage has old, vintage and antique windows and doors and reclaimed timbers, beams and barn wood to build any green house or cold frame.
Way back in the warm days of summer, Joe contacted us on our availability of hand hewn beams for his kitchen project. He is an engineer by day and an old house remodeler by night. He is working on restoring his 1900s farm house and chronicles his progress in his blog, 1900 Farmhouse. He recently…
We’re here! Today is the first day at the Antique and Collectible Show at the Portland Expo. We have a double booth highlighting our Industrial and Steam Punk items and it is going very well. Please come by to see us if you have the chance! Here are some photos from this morning as the…
I live in a 1947 era home with a sad, sad kitchen. I found these great kitchen storage ideas from the Re-nest website I mention earlier this week. On top of that, we have virtually everything to create these looks at Aurora Mills! Well, not the airplane food cart bins pictured on the Re-nest blog…
Back in April we at Aurora Mills were asked to participate in a movie that was produced by BRING. BRING Recycling is a broad-based organization offering positive, hands-on solutions to the serious environmental challenges of our time. Their movie: “Reuse It” takes a look at the used building materials industry in Oregon, and teaches us…
What comes to mind when you think of preservation? Is it that grand old building in town? Grandma’s House? Lotions and creams to help keep wrinkles at bay? May is National Preservation Month and the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s theme for 2010 is “Old is the New Green.” We hear daily the latest environmental…
One thing that I love about the Portland area is the variety of people who are committed to a more sustainable future. We have a growing number of customers who come to us wanting to build or design while leaving as small a footprint on Mother Earth as possible. What is so great is that…
I’ve always been able to see things that weren’t there. No, not little green men or Oompa Lumpas – but ideas, the possibilities, the outcome of a pile of junk into something amazing. Not everyone sees the possibilities and at times I have felt surrounded by the “non-seeing”. Early on I started relying on tear…
