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ALL ITEMS IN "A NEW WAY TO DEFINE ART" ARE ITEMS WE HAVE SOLD AND THE VARIOUS WAYS IN WHICH OUR CUSTOMERS HAVE CREATIVELY INSTALLED THEM
A Band of Vintage Decorative Ceramic Tiles are Incorporated Into a New Tile Application
A Stained Glass Window Adds Privacy and Color and A Bronze Grille Becomes an Ornamental Wall Hanging
Antique Ornamental Cast Ironwork Makes All The Difference in Transforming This Plain Wooden Privacy Fence Into A Dramatic Garden Setting.
This Building Corbel Creates The Perfect Display For A Painting, Sculpture or By Itself As Its Own Focal Point.
This Birdhouse Made From Antique Stair Newel Posts Becomes A Sculptural Piece of Art in Itself.
A Mid Century Entry Becomes Transformed By The Addition of Antique Wooden Panels and Decorative Tin.
The Simple Placement of Small Architectural Elements Such as A Bronze Building Fragment and Terra Cotta Brick Can Make An Ordinary Bookshelf Extraordinary.
A Large Column Capital in This Garden is Now A Small Garden Seat or Plant Pedestal.
Ornamental Wrought Iron Panels Hung in These Windows Gives This Kitchen A Flavor All Its Own.
The Addition of Garden Fountains and Statuary Always Turns The Average Yard or Garden Into A Personal Statement.
When Another Painting Just Won't Do, Try Decorative Architectural Elements Such As This Antique Art Nouveau Ironwork Triptych.
This Large Piece of Carved Art Deco Limestone Is Ingeniously Being Used As A Porch Step.
As Simple As The Placement of An Antique Copper Roof Finial Can Make All The Difference In This Garden.
A Focal Point is Created With This Antique Elliptical Stained Glass Window "Floating" Above a Custom Window Seat Flanked By Wall Brackets Created From Mantel Shelf Fragments.
A Decorative Iron Grille Backed With Mirror Glass Gives The Illusion of a Transom and Reflects the Arch of the Stained Glass Window Beyond.
A Pair of Wall Mounted Candle Stands are Actually Arched Panels From a Salvaged door with Applied Mirrors above Antique Nickel Brackets Holding Shelves.
This Modern Refrigerator with Reconditioned Antique Icebox Hardware Looks Like the Original.
A Newel Post Cap Turned Upside Down as a Display Shelf.
A Newel Post with the Addition of Coat Hooks Makes a Perfect Towel Rack.
This decorative antique iron grille was polished and installed in a custom built radiator cover.
This beautiful carved black slate mantel has replaced a simple and non-descript wooden mantel to become the focal point of this home.
A unique key holder has been created here with decorative polished iron Eastlake hardware.
A small Victorian cast iron portable heater has been refinished and transformed into an outdoor candle lamp.
This custom built-in bookcase incorporates antique leaded glass and beveled glass cabinet doors.
Beautiful polished bronze 19th century doorknobs have been mounted on an antique pushplate for this purse holder.
Polished iron registers can be incorporated into custom built radiator covers.
An ornate figural cast iron summer cover with a custom made stand is now a unique firescreen.
These figural cast iron brackets have been polished and mounted below a polished granite countertop.
A collection of decorative iron fragments have been installed in this custom built radiator cover.
A three piece bronze bank teller grille has been hinged and screened to create this very personalized firescreen.
Antique hardware can easily be installed on new or old doors for a look not available with new hardware.
ALL ITEMS IN "A NEW WAY TO DEFINE ART" ARE ITEMS WE HAVE SOLD AND THE VARIOUS WAYS IN WHICH OUR CUSTOMERS HAVE CREATIVELY INSTALLED THEM
Large Decorative Cast Iron Brackets in Combination With An Antique Marble Shelf Make a Unique Console
An Antique Column Capital Has New Life as a Decorative Plant Pedestal
A CUSTOMER PURCHASED THIS GRILLE FROM US AND TOTED IT BACK TO MISSISSIPPI IN A BACKPACK TO CREATE THIS BEAUTIFUL WALL MIRROR!
A customer purchased a pair of off-white, antique, cabinet doors, along with some skeleton keys and steel keyholes from our shop for a sculture project. It is his metaphorical self representation! It represents his adoption based off of a quote that he made for a tattoo. "Two families intertwined, one person as the key."