Nor'East Architectural Antiques

Holiday Hours

All of us here at Nor'East Architectural Antiques would like to wish our customers a very Happy Holidays!!!

 For customers planning a visit during the holidays, our hours will be...

December 21, 22 and 23 (Monday-Wednesday) Open 10-5 pm
December 24-25 (Thursday and Friday)Closed so our employee's can enjoy the holiday with their families
December 26 (Saturday) Open 10-5
December 27 (Sunday) Closed
December 28-31 (Monday - Thursday) Open 10-5 pm
January 1 (Friday) Closed
January 2 and Beyond, back to our regular schedule, Monday-Saturday 10-5

  

Before and After Photo's

Those of you who follow us on facebook already know that I just started a new photo album called "Before and After Photo's"...  (btw, why aren't you following us on facebook!!) If you are a customer of ours, past or present, please email us photo's of the items you have purchased from us.  We love to see our salvaged items installed.  It doesn't matter if you use the item in the traditional way (a door as a door) or in a unique way (a door as a headboard).

Here are two pictures that I received a few weeks ago.

 
This is how the door appeared on our website. A customer purchased it, restored it and then sent us this photo of it installed in his kitchen.

 

Looks great doesn't it?

  

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Margaret Brown, one of our favorite customers. Her home was featured in the September issue of East Coast Home & Design Magazine.
Click here to see Margarets amazing home, complete with many great treasures found right here at Nor'East!

http://www.echomeanddesign.com/mediakit.html

Click on "past issues"
Then click on the "September 2009" issue
Then scroll through pages 37-49 and Enjoy!!!

Amesbury Relay for Life

Dear Friends.

This past weekend, for the 6th year in a row, our company has participated in the Amesbury Relay for Life!  As a team of co-workers and family members, we fundraise year round to raise money for cancer research, awareness, programs and to help fund the 1-800-ACS-2345 toll free cancer help hotline.  so far this year we have raised $3762.00, and we are not finished yet!!  Please visit our Relay For Life Team Website at http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?pg=team&fr_id=16313&team_id=381086 and make a donation today. 

Thank you!!!

Love,
Donna 

The Cupola

On August 18th, 2008, our crew began salvaging a catholic rectory in North Andover, Ma. At the time we were just beginning construction of our new building, and when John saw the rectory he had a fantastic idea....

 

"Lets salvage the cupola from the top of the rectory and install it on ours."

Sounded like a good idea...so the guys removed the cupola.

 

Loaded it on a flatbed truck and brought it back to our shop.

 

Back at the shop, the cupola sat patiently in the back of the parking lot while we built our building. 

Refurbishing the cupola took a fair amount of time.  All of the windows needed to be removed, rebuilt, and reinstalled.  At least half of the glass needed to be replaced (and of course we used antique glass).

On Friday, August 21, 2009, a year and two days after the cupola came down from the roof in North Andover, it went back up on our roof in South Hampton, Nh.

Of course there was a lot of prep work done first.

 

A new base was built and that was first to go up...

 

 

and then the cupola was prepped....

 

and then it went up...

 

and up

 

 

Then the crew attached it to its new base

 

 

From left to right...Billy, John, Mike, Joel and Steve

 

And here it is..the finishing touch on a year long project.

unhappy anniversary

1 year ago today..

We came to work at 8:30 am, just like we did every day. We finished up a few small projects around the shop, had a few sales, visited with a few customers, and left for home around 6 pm. 

At 6:49 pm our lives changed forever as the first phone call came to alert us that our fire alarms were going off.  It took me 4 minutes to get back to the store.  It took John 8.  What we saw when we arrived was something that we could have never imagined.

 

13 years of our life...disappearing before our eyes. 

24 hours later, when it was over, we were thankful that no one was hurt in the fire. 
We'd lost our business, all of our inventory, and our 3 beloved cats...but what we found was a determination to rebuild a bigger and better Nor'East.

 

This is what we had to work with, so with the help of some very dear friends, we started to clean.

we started to rebuild our building...

We started to gather new inventory.. 

 

We even found new cats to love...

 

To my business partner John...the ONLY person I would have blindly followed through hell, trusting we would make it out the other side.  The day after the fire he told me we would rebuild...and be bigger and better than before, and that everything would be alright.  He was right.

Today...our first new building is nearly finished.

 

and tomorrow, when we come to work "like we always do" it will be with a new goal, to stop defining ourselves as "the salvage company that burned to the ground".  Tomorrow we start a new chapter in the book of Nor'East.

Happy Unhappy Anniversary John!

Donna

Just In...

 

Tens of thousands of board feet of heart pine posts and beams.  This is one of several truck-loads that arrived this week.  This is the same material we used to create our post and beam interior.  This wood  can be cleaned and used as-is or can be resawn and would make a beautiful addition to any project.  Call or email us for more details.

In other news...Nor'East is now twittering! Click the link on the right side of the page to follow us. 

 Starting next week!!! two new projects.  A 1900's mansion once frequented by the Beatles, and a mid-1700's home with beautiful wide pine flooring and chestnut hand hewn beams.

inventory inventory inventory

Once again I have neglected this blog for several weeks.  Sorry about that.  The process of moving in and setting up seems to be taking us longer than we thought it would.  We spend our days photographing, measuring and uploading items to our website (daily!)...not to mention taking a detailed inventory of all our stock.  In the end this should prove to be a huge asset for us...but right now its just a pain in the neck!

I thought you might like to see a picture of our new front counter.  This was taken about 10 days ago, and it already looks different. 

 

Timber salvage

The past few weeks we have been very busy with a new salvage job. Cleaning and cutting thousands of board feet of old growth yellow pine timbers at this Massachusetts mill demolition site.

Moving In!

Well it has been 10 months since the fire, and this week we started moving inventory into our first new building.  Exciting! Here are a couple pictures.

 

In a week or so this will be our hardware department.

The guys have been working hard on our new front counter.  Originally the top was going to be marble, but in the end we went with a bowling alley from Fenway Park.  If you didn't know that Fenway Park once had a bowling alley then  you are not alone. 

We also started a salvage job in Boston this past week.  Here is a picture of a paneled room we removed.

 

Beautiful isn't it?  We will have details listed on our website this week.