All images with original and additional posts available @knottydiy on Instagram. This account is intended to share lived knowledge and salvage experience from an environmentally sustainable, historical preservationist perspective.
- Sustainability soapbox, Pt I – you ready? 🙂Continuing a tradition of reused building materials is not just a nostalgic effort, but financially savvy – think about the cost of a sheet of plywood…
- LOVE LOVE LOVE old things…… buildings, stories, people, dogs, books, culture, etc. Building reclamation is where these things all meet, in a physical structure that houses hints of what was……
- 6 years = 6 updates in 6 days … = 6/6 🤍Paint. When it’s done right (take that wood right back baby!), this 110 year old, old-growth fir siding and trim has 110 years more life left…
- 6 years = 6 updates in 6 days … = 5/6 🤍Dump run days and #demodays are the BEST days. Today’s post isn’t pretty, is very much in progress, and has been soooo much work, and probably…
- 6 years = 6 updates in 6 days … = 4/6 🤍There’s something special about living in your home as work unfolds… it’s dirty and messy and inconvenient, but opportunities to “make the walls talk” come up…
- 6 years = 6 updates in 6 days … = 3/6 🤍Fridays are for hiding… 🙃 Didnt get any photos of the front yard perspective upon arrival, but she was bad… shoulder high weeds, dead grass, 🐕💩…it’s…
- 6 years = 6 updates in 6 days … = 2/6 🤍📸 Today, plus befores from literally as walking the house, that first time… and a Movember carpenter installing the new-old door… you’re welcome. To date, fave…
- 6 years = 6 updates in 6 days … = 1/6 🤍Nevermind the terrible stove – this salvaged kitchen is 👌. Can we have a minute on this kitchen fan? She’s got a mother of pearl push…
- Reflective EssayShifting to Align Preservation, Sustainability and Development. As most farm kids do, I grew up seeing things differently – with limited available resources, I learned to…