What was made and lasts for lifetimes? American Vintage Hardware epitomizes sustainability beautifully.
Few know of these things that could still be used to make our houses more efficient before being moved into by the energy and wood savings from salvaged parts, windows, & doors.
How many things can you identify that might go in a tiny house? If not for the original use, the beauty of Salvage Living is what you can create with the incredible art from our past when artisans created hardware as jewelry for your homes.
Can you go back in time and test your Antique House Hardware terminology as part of American history? So many can still be used today, more than a century after being made, and will last for another two or three centuries more. What happened to quality?
American Made was once meant to last for a lifetime and looked pretty too. How about you? Look at some of the hundreds of cast iron fireplace parts from 150 years ago, new, ready to use for ovens, firepits, and much more. Why buy cheap new inferior stuff to use. Become a paid subscriber and get discounts and the limited access by appointment that few others get.
Want to preserve history, and use it wisely instead of trashing it to recycle into battleships, tanks, and war machines which is where most of the millions of tons of cast iron, brass, and other metals sent to China for less than America could mine it for, could now return as weaponry trained on us. Imagine how much money and energy they saved by not having to mine, smelt, or shape the old steel that they bought from us for 1/4 of the cost to replace it.
Oh darn, we closed the foundries, shut down the industry that made all the cast iron, and recycles steel, the metal we now need as commodities go up in cost for copper or other ores we no longer have without causing massive pollution to extract and smelt anew.
Who was in charge of such stupid policies for decades? Is it a party thing or just greed across the board at the top? It is the latter, with no one at the top answering my questions for two decades, recorded videos predicting these times when the global resource system would collapse. The value of the salvage would skyrocket, for it is here, in our hands, ready to be transformed into solutions and wealth, a path to rebuild America with more than just words from an addled president who can barely read from a teleprompter with someone also talking in his ear.
These are the times to salvage the best to create incredible instead of settling for the worst. Join us in creating solutions from the treasures on hand instead of creating more problems, pollution, and slaves to mine the ores left in remote places. Be the solution by living simpler, healthier, smarter lives.
Brad w. Kittel
Tiny Texas Houses
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