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…
Archives for salvaged wood
The Aurora Mills Architectural Salvage Yard Gets a Facelift
The lumber yard at Aurora Mills Architectural Salvage has been getting a much needed facelift. Randy, Tom and Rick have been working nonstop to put down and compact TRUCKLOADS upon truckloads of gravel over the entire surface of the lumber yard. This entails moving stacks and stacks of gigantic timbers and beams. Today the job…
Beautiful Salvaged Storage Ideas for the Kitchen
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…
Malachi Milbourn of Against the Grain Primitive Furniture and Design
It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation’s need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied…
Aurora Mills in the Movies
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…
The Lumber Yard at Aurora Mills Architectural Salvage
Something I realized recently is that many people don’t know the scope of the lumber yard we have at Aurora Mills. It’s huge! A number of customers have commented that it is one of the largest of its kind around here. We specialize in only reclaimed timbers, beams and barnwood and all of the wood…