{"id":1812,"date":"2018-10-01T09:09:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T17:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2018-10-01T09:09:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T17:09:41","slug":"making-old-into-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/01\/making-old-into-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Making old into new"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There wasn&#8217;t much about our old house that was worth saving.\u00a0 We recycled <a href=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/12\/re-purposing-an-old-light-fixture\/\">a few light fixtures<\/a> and saved some of the old windows as art but that&#8217;s about it. However, we did manage to pull out quite a bit of really nice old growth redwood.<\/p>\n<p>To day we had delivery of an outdoor dining table we had made from some of the old redwood beams.\u00a0 It turned out gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1813\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_3073-1280x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_3073-1280x960.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_3073-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_3073-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1814\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_3072-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_3072-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_3072-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We still have quite a bit more of old wood to work with.<\/p>\n<p>Now we need to figure out what kind of chairs will work with this table.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There wasn&#8217;t much about our old house that was worth saving.\u00a0 We recycled a few light fixtures and saved some of the old windows as art but that&#8217;s about it. 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