How a Fixture Finds Its Way Here

\People ask where the fixtures come from, which is a fair question. Here is how I source architectural salvage, plainly, including the parts I can't answer.

Salvage comes from buildings giving up their parts, one way or another. Some of it comes from demolition, a building coming down, its worthwhile pieces pulled before the rest is rubble. Some comes from renovation, an owner stripping out what they don't want. Some comes through the network, other dealers, estate clear-outs, the channels a person builds up over years in the trade. I source from places I trust, and I pay attention to where material comes from. What I can tell you about a given piece is its general story: roughly its period, its type, how it was made, what it's made of. That much the object itself tells me, if you know how to read it. What I usually can't tell you is its specific history, the exact house it hung in, the year, who owned it. For most salvage, that history isn't recorded, and it doesn't come with the piece, so anybody claiming to know the full biography of every fixture is telling you more than the trade can support. I also watch for the wrong kind of sourcing. Architectural theft is real, and I steer clear of anything that surfaces on a stolen-property alert or comes from a channel I don't trust. So that's the honest version: the material comes from legitimate salvage, through sources I stand behind. I'll tell you what a piece is, generally. I won't invent where it's been.