Lumber Van - Part II

We got a 12 ft cargo van yesterday morning (same van they gave me 2 weeks ago) and V and I loaded up all the maple flooring I collected over the past two weeks from a nearby dumpster (looks to be about 300 sq ft).  We didn't get a pic of the wood in the back of the van, but this is the wood after we moved it into the house - it is stacked on the upper landing outside the main floor.  To give you a sense of scale, the stack is about six feet long end to end and is four rows deep.  So it's a lot of wood!

Then we drove over to Jersey City to pick up the reclaimed cedar water tower staves I found on Craigslist. These are mostly 2"x5"s and there are are about 44 10ft lengths - but those have some rot about two feet from the end, so they are probably going to end up yielding about 6-7 feet of usable decking after cutting and planing.  We also got about 50 4 foot lengths which will lose about a foot each in the clean-up process.

Note that way way back in the load, just behind the seats, you can see some tin ceiling tiles that I picked up cheap on Craigslist this week in the neighborhood.

Finally, we picked up a table I bought on ebay 2 months ago.  The seller was in Ohio, but the guy who sold me the cedar hooked me up with someone who was driving back from Ohio on Thursday so, for a reasonable price, he picked it up in Ohio and dropped it off in Jersey City.  Note that the table top isn't pictured here - it is cast iron and weighs a ton so we left it outside - we're going to put some sort of custom (i.e., made by us!) wood table-top on this anyway.

And that was how we spent our day yesterday - loading all this stuff in and then out.

design idea - curious old table base

I love this table base.  It is heavy and cast iron and adjustable in a lot of ways that a dining table never needs to be, but it is very groovy looking.  So, I think the plan is probably to strip this and re-paint it bright, glossy white and then to put on a thick, slab-lumber table-top.  That's what I imagine at least.

design idea - old utility sink for kitchen?

So here's a sink I found cheap on Craigslist that gets me thinking about options for a "country kitchen".  This thing is massive and not so pretty, but there is something great about it but what if we tiled the front in subway tiles in a dazzling color (a shimmery sea blue or something like that?

And what if we put it up on old cast iron legs like the ones under this great big old machine? (not including the boxy, coffin-looking part sitting on top of the legs, of course)

Is this just a little too much re-purposing, a little too clunky or might it look amazing if we cleaned the legs completely and painted them a beautiful shade of deep shiny blue?

What do you think?

As to the toe stubbing issue - I think that the front wall of the sink juts out far enough that the forward feet of the base would still be just behind the top front lip of the sink.

design idea - re-purposing old machine parts

I am really having a hard time not buying this thing. It is a 16" planer from the late 1800's and I would have to drive 2.5 hours to pick it up and do a lot of disassembly myself to get it into the car. 
The legs would make a great workbench base though.  And those two big wheels on the operating side beg to be re-purposed either as decorative elements or as something - I don't know what.  And doesn't that worn iron handle just beg to be pulled?  I want it (or parts of it at least).
UPDATE: and now it is MINE!!!

 

design ideas - rustic chic

This popped up on ApartmentTherapy this morning and I like it. (Link to the article is below).  I then went and searched for more pics of these guys' work and studio and I added those below as well.

It is sad that the first thing that came to mind when I saw this post was to kick myself for not buying a set of heavy iron table legs like the ones in the first pic (though not as ornate) when I saw them at the flea market two years ago.  It was the end of the day and the guy didn't want to pack them up and take them home because they weighed a ton and he offered them to me cheap - but I was on my bike and didn't want to deal with it.  I've been kicking myself ever since -- thinking that they would have been great for a big slab wood table, and here they are and so they are!!  Well fuck me. 

Oh, and how about the big, boxy, white-washed light-fixture over the table? we're going to need something big over the dining table - it's dark on that side of the room.

In the below picture I really like the vertical paneling on the sides of the bar - like what we talked about except they use white-washed and natural wood slats.  I also particularly like the use of old multi-pane windows as a space divider.  We might consider this on the bedroom walls around the staircase so that we can close off the bedroom but still get light from the big picture window off the staircase.  What do you think?

These rough-hewn boards flanking the corridor are cool and I like the use of the hinges, but it feels a little design-ey since they are purely decorative.  If they actually swung closed to shut the corridor, that would be cool, but clearly they don't since the hinges are in the wrong place.

LINK: hOmE Studio of Oliver & Evan Haslegrave

And here are some more pics of their place from other sources:'

OH SHIT!!! They do open!!! Amazing!!! (following pix from an article in TheScoutMag.com) - and apparently all the pix from Apt. Therapy also originated with the piece in The Scout.

Please spare me comment on how handsome he looks with his fancy hair and beard.

Following pix are from NY Magazine - I think, unless they took them from The Scout as well. 

 

 

 

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