Treasure Hunting

Eco Relics salvage shop downtown Jacksonville, FL

This weekend, Adam and I decided to venture downtown and explore the new salvage shop, Eco Relics, that opened a couple of months ago.  Having watched every episode of Rehab Addict, we were fully aware of how exciting it was that this new salvage place opened up during our home building process. Being avid followers of the show has also made us self proclaimed experts on this kind of "treasure hunting." Despite having no particular hunting mission in mind, we excitedly braved the rain and travelled downtown. Not only did we find many items that sparked our creativity and inspired future projects, but we managed to find exactly what we weren't looking for... the perfect coastal trim for our custom kitchen range hood. It is a custom painted, whitewashed piece of wood trim that happens to perfectly match the gray, ivory, and mint shades of our future kitchen.

Find of the day: range hood wood trim in gray, ivory, and mint shades

Mint green vintage window

Gorgeous red cedar wood piece

Beautiful carved solid wood door. Wouldn't work with our decor but
reminds me of the picturesque doors I saw throughout Romania

We also spent a significant amount of time at the property this weekend.  At the end of last week, the plumber came out and ran the plumbing for the bathrooms, kitchen, laundry room, and outside hose bibs and shower.  With the plumbing completed, the electrician is scheduled to come out this morning to run the wiring for the two floor outlets that we will have in the living room. These outlets were recently added (once I realized that all of our living room furniture will be floating) and were therefore not placed on the plans.  As a result, it is up to Adam and I to figure out exactly where we want these placed and provide our builder with the measurements of their location from the back and side walls. With no access to (or experience with) CAD, and difficulties visualizing on the plans, we went out to the property, schematics and tape measurer in hand, to determine the location of our floor outlets. Hopefully we are not so far off that they are actually in the kitchen haha.

Measuring for floor outlets

Adam deciphering the plans

Until next time...