{"id":1557,"date":"2018-06-12T19:17:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T03:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2018-06-13T09:32:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T17:32:18","slug":"re-purposing-an-old-light-fixture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/12\/re-purposing-an-old-light-fixture\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-purposing an old light fixture"},"content":{"rendered":"

The house we tore down was quite a mish-mash, having been built in 4 phases over 100 years.\u00a0 When it was built, it was built rather plainly, not at all ornate like some of the other craftsman type homes of the original era the old house was built.<\/p>\n

At one point we had one of our neighbors come over to asses what was worth saving.\u00a0 She and her husband had bought and restored over 60 homes in the Santa Barbara area, and she owned and ran an antique store.\u00a0 Her comment was that nothing in the house was really worth saving, only what might be sentimental to us.<\/p>\n

But we did want to carry the spirit and some of the history of the old house forward to the new one.\u00a0 To that end, we recovered some of the nice redwood materials, pulled out the leaded glass windows, and saves a few light fixtures.<\/p>\n

The redwood is still waiting for a purpose, neatly stored in a new wood storage rack in our back yard.<\/p>\n

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You can also see the old cast-iron bathtub in the picture above.\u00a0 We are thinking of some use for it as a water feature in the yard.<\/p>\n

We had someone come by to look at the leaded glass windows, which had bowed significantly over the years.\u00a0 In short. they needed to be taken completely apart and all the lead replaced.\u00a0 We would really only be re-using the glass, and some of those panes were broken.\u00a0 The cost – about $400 per window.<\/p>\n

There was one light fixture that we liked, kind of an interesting glass work (perhaps if only to us) with a pattern, but on a rusty brass base.\u00a0 The solution was to sand and repaint the base, and add a new chain, wire, and socket.\u00a0 Here is the result.<\/p>\n

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So, we did manage to save something from the old house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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