Sunday, January 22, 2012

Sunday Snapshot ... Use It or Lose It

As I was digging through the photos here on my laptop earlier this morning, I came across one that carries a bit of a lesson to be learned.

I took the photo below in 2006 at Caravati's (a fabulous architectural salvage yard in Richmond), and published it in THIS blog post from January of last year.  I love the details of this beautiful piece of a shingle cottage just as much now as I did when I first saw it ... maybe more now.  The shingles, the shutters, and the delicate touch of gingerbread is completely perfect!



This past fall, while The Husband and I were at Caravati's hunting for a window to use to finish the north wall of my greenhouse, I happened upon the same piece ... now deteriorating and forgotten in a far corner of the yard.  It made me sad.



All it needed in 2006 was some scraping and a coat or two of paint.  I'm sure it would take a lot more work to for someone to be able to use it now.  Fortunately for me, all I needed it for was inspiration ... and photos can do this quite nicely.

Such a shame.


16 comments:

  1. Oh my... what a sweet piece it is! Love the color on the shutters. Were they gone??

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  2. Oh how sad--- don't you just hate when your best intentions don't get to be fulfilled? This is a magnificent piece of salvage-- I do hope you can find a unique way to use it--- I can see why you loved it so much!!

    I hope your winter is going smoothly for you-- I hate cold weather-- I'm sure you are anxious to be working amongst all your gorgeous roses--
    Vicki

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  3. That is too bad! I found Caravetti's on the internet a while ago, but still haven't made it over there to poke around.
    Grace

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  4. I hope someone rescues it soon. It seems such a waste for such beauty to be left to decay.

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  5. There's a life lesson in your post. Thanks for the reminder.

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  6. SOmeone might still want a wack at the old piece. Hubby just threw out wood from the old house....projects unrealized....sad but now its cleaned up and I'm a happy girl.

    x
    Carole

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  7. I hate to see such pretty pieces fall by the wayside. If only we could find a place for every cool thing we see, right?!

    Kat :)

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  8. How terribly sad to see something so beautiful, languish and deteriorate, unloved, without a proper home.

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  9. What a fantastic piece! So sad to see in such a state now. Don't you need it for your greenhouse, hint, hint?! Go on and rescue it, lol!

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  10. That IS sad, isn't it? I love that piece and would love to see it brought to life again. xo Diana

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  11. That is sad. It's like watching a lovely old empty home deteriorate. I hate that too! The weathered pop of color on the shutters was just perfect--and that gingerbread!

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  12. So hard to see something like that falling apart. :(

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  13. Knowing me...I'd find someway of talking Hubby into dragging the dilapidated one home and rebuilding it! lol!

    xoxo laurie

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  14. Morning Connie,

    If you and I had found that piece together..we would have hauled that baby home. Just gorgeous! Love everything about it...just like you said. I can picture it as the front of a tiny cottage retreat like Sandy Foster's My Shabby Streamside Studio.

    Such a shame that it sits there unloved.

    Janet xox

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  15. It is such a charming piece. Hopefully someone will be rescue it!

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  16. OH that is such a shame. I hate it when beautiful pieces like this become so deteriorated. :(

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