Sentence examples for salvage stores from inspiring English sources

Charity shops, which started life as Salvation Army "salvage stores" more than a century ago, have become a big industry, with more than 10,000 across the UK.

They often rummage through antique shops, salvage stores and flea markets for just the right object, making them ideal to turn to for scavenging advice.

Unlike architectural salvage stores, which sell marble fireplace mantels, stained glass and spiral staircases, reuse stores generally traffic in mundane items like light switches and insulation.

And although they began looking for a new mantel by searching through the architectural salvage stores in Manhattan, they ended up saving money by buying one on the Internet through a site they found simply by typing "mantel" into the Google search engine.

Recycled doorknobs and cabinet fixtures can be found in local salvage stores, and they're cheaper than buying new.

Other salvage stores focus on a specific type of item category (architectural elements, building supplies and leftovers from estate sales), but tend to be pricey.

And the salvage stored within suggests that Mr. Larson has long taken an apocalyptic view toward architecture.

At Olde Good Things, an architectural salvage store in Chelsea, Ms. Allen liked hand-carved wood corbels that could be installed on a wall to hold sculptures.

B3 'Drummer Boy' Statue Found A 700-pound statue stolen from a Civil War veteran's Woodlawn mausoleum on Tuesday was recovered from an architectural salvage store in Harlem and hauled back to the Bronx.

Lining the walls of the living room and the dining area were nearly two dozen architectural salvage pieces, including a five-foot mirror with egg-and-dart molding rescued by a salvage store from the Plaza Hotel, arched French doors, four antique Venetian mirrors and a pair of tall wood and plaster pilasters, all collected in the months before the renovation began in April.

The four-foot-tall, 700-pound statue by an unknown sculptor, stolen from the Bronx cemetery Tuesday, was recovered yesterday from an architectural salvage store in Harlem, carefully lifted into a cemetery Jeep and taken back to its home borough last night.