Thanks every one for your helpful suggestions! And feel free to keep sharing more. I actually picked paint for the girls room yesterday so I felt successful. Then today we got a call that all of our appliances were in so we made a combined trip to pick them up plus to check out a salvaging place that is about 45 minutes away. I think that we made some pretty great finds coming to around 120 total.
cool green industrial/barn lights that have a massive one that I didn’t take a picture of.
Industrial/barn lights that will become kitchen lighting
glass handles.
And a funky vintage hardware nail scale which still works and will go well in our kitchen:).
And then some fun finds that we didn’t buy but will be keeping in mind:
insulators that make cool light possibilities
I would love to paint this a fun color and add it to our room…but couldn’t do $30
old metal ceiling tiles that would be great as a kitchen backsplash.
LOVE IT ALL! and oh my goodness i was just coming on your blog too add the idea of using the insulators as pendant light fixtures! ( just saw it in a magazine!) Also cool idea to use an antique water pump as a faucet but i think its more expensive because you have to have the hot water valve put in…. this idea may be a lot of work, but sometimes you can get a huge bin of old broken vintage glass or glass bottles ( in various colors) that you can break and add them into a back splash or make a cool mosaic out of them…anyways looks like tons of fun!
oh and iv also seen someone use an old wooden ladder as a pots and pans hanger, hanging from the ceiling above the kitchen island. or you can use it as a winter clothes hanger like this!http://pinterest.com/pin/14990910/
So cool! My in-laws use insulators as door stops 🙂