Repurposed Wood from Family farm house

[IHC656]

My Great Great Grandparents home which was built in 1884 was demolished. I was only able to find and save one scrap of wood. Which I made into a shelf, coat rack, and 3 crosses. I used every piece of the busted up board.

 

[Ocean7]

very nice job on all your wood projects! And to think you have these things from a 1884 house your family owned even more special.
We used to save old windows being replaced by a family member's business. Some had bubbles in glass showing how old they actually were. My EX started selling them to artists and crafts people. Some wanted them for art projects they were doing and some wanted them for glass door cabinets (free standing) they were putting together. I was amazed anyone would want them!

Just this year, I happened to be in a estate lawyer's office that was very nicely furnished. They took me into the conference room and I had to laugh because there on the back wall of the room hung a wooden window with bubbled glass from a dwelling that has historic and sentimental value to the lawyer who owned this business.

For those who don't know glass with bubbles in it can date back to Colonial times. We had some in the Colonial and that was built around 1800.

Where I live now, the Amish will come in and dismantle a whole barn for the wood from mainly very old buildings. Some of those beams are huge and have wooden pegs holding them together.
They reuse all of it!

So you did a really nice job saving some of your family's past history!

 

[IHC656]

My Great Great Grandparents home which was built in 1884 was demolished. I was only able to find and save one scrap of wood. Which I made into a shelf, coat rack, and 3 crosses. I used every piece of the busted up board.

I had this one tiny scrap of wood yet, so I carved a cross into it.