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Dear <<First Name>>,
Are you expecting a lot of visitors at your home this season? If they stay for any length of time, chances are they’ll make their way to your guest bathroom. Is that room starting to show its age and desperately in need of an update?
Not that long ago, the typical solution to an aging building was to leave it behind and build a new one in a different location. Or totally demolish it and build a new one at the same site. Today there is a major trend nationwide to preserve and reuse buildings and building materials. Old vacant mills and warehouses are transformed into upscale event centers and condominiums. The original brick, steel window frames, wood flooring and ceiling beams are restored and reused. Keep reading for ideas on following a similar direction for your bathroom remodeling project.
Joe French, President
Louisville Handyman, Inc.
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Treasures for the Bathroom
  Homeowners are gaining interest in incorporating salvaged, reclaimed and reused materials in their home remodeling projects today. They have done the research, and they realize the benefits not only to the environment, but also to the appearance of their homes. They are recognizing the beauty and richness that aged materials can bring to their home environment. In the last few years, the idea of preservation for residential projects has gained ground, and consumers are reversing the earlier trend of throwing away and buying everything new.
If you value reclaiming and reusing, let us consider how you could incorporate aged materials into an upcoming bathroom remodeling project. First of all, you can carefully deconstruct your existing bathroom. The components specified for use in your remodeling project may be reused, while the rest are simply harvested as valuable building material for eventual use by someone else. This gives a new life-cycle to all components and diminishes the need for virgin resources for other building projects in our community. Items such as old windows and doors may be donated to a local nonprofit—such as Habitat for Humanity—that receives and sells reclaimed building materials to raise funds for their community efforts. You will have the pleasure of knowing you have benefitted others in more ways than one. Building material not suitable for repurposing in its present condition, such as an outdated ceramic toilet, may be ground up and recycled into another type of building product.
Above: Vintner’s Collection reclaims oak staves for bathroom furniture. Next, Vintner’s Collection repurposed oak barrels for bathroom vanities.
Perhaps there are existing items from other parts of your home that you are thinking about repurposing in your remodeled bathroom. Begin by researching the appropriateness of the items for the environment. If you want to transform your grandmother's antique sideboard into a bathroom vanity, for example, you need to be aware that the original furniture finish may not withstand the level of moisture present in your bathroom. Also, the interior drawer configuration was not designed to accept plumbing pipes. Challenges like these can be overcome, but it will require some expense and your willingness to make major changes to your family heirloom.
A second direction you can turn in your search for a vanity is to a local company that specializes in the deconstruction of buildings and the salvaging of building materials for reuse. Here you may find a vintage bathroom vanity in excellent condition or a lovely pedestal sink for a fraction of the original price. A stack of reclaimed wood, rich in character, could inspire a custom-built vanity or medicine cabinet.
A third option is to purchase a bathroom vanity from a manufacturer known for creating beautiful, high-quality new products from salvaged materials. The advantage of going this direction is knowing you have purchased a sustainable product that also has been designed and finished specifically to resist the stains and moisture normally associated with a bathroom environment.
Below left: 100% recycled glass tile from pre-consumer waste glass. Below right: Solid bronze knobs and pulls with 90% recycled content.
 
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