Habitat for Humanity ReStore, Charlotte, NC: Part II

My miniseries on the finds at the ReStore Habitat for Humanity on N. Wendover in Charlotte, North Carolina, continues. Hey, where else on the web can you find a blogger who gleefully leads with used toilets on her highest-traffic day of the week. Faithful readers will know, there is nothing I like better than a beautiful mid-century toilet. That said, I am not up on my brands and styles these days. Scathing Jane, can you tell me about the one on the right, with the squarish looking everything. Is that an American Standard Pillow Top or something like that? I like it a lot alot. Continue for 24 more photos.

Every self-respecting ReStore has sinks galore and Charlotte was no disappointment.

A gorgeous classic shelf-back sink from the 40s or 50s. Jane: Crane? I’m guessing that because of the rounded central part of the faucet?

These were another favorite find — four vintage Eljer sinks. They looked never-installed. They were identical. They were weird in that the porcelain sink seemed to sit in another porcelain receptacle. I think they are 70s or 80s because of the color — off white with a brown decorative line around the edge.

You know how much I love matchy-matchy. I can imagine having a house with three bathrooms and buying all of these to install: Two in the master, one each in the other two bathrooms. Oh, it would be SO FUN to decorate around these. I may be have to do a complete post launching right off them. Can anyone explain the design, though? That is, the fact that the round-bowl sink sits in some sort of other container or pan?

Behind the sinks were various other items. I liked the fact that you could buy cabinet shelves for $1.

They had enough of this Wilsonart terrazzo-like laminate-topped snap-in-place flooring to cover $45 s.f. I like the look, and can certainly see it being appropriate (and easy to install) in mid-century renovations.

Here’s the Wilsonart flooring packaging. I don’t think this was very old. I will have to go online and check out the story.

They had a good selection of wood shelf brackets, each for $5. Kinda country, I’d guess you could say… but maybe an application for us.

There was a nice little selection of bedroom headboards.

The whole home design blog world was gaga for make-your-own or buy-it upholstered headboards last year. This was a king-size upholstered headboard. Change out the fabric and you are in business way cheaper even than starting from scratch.

Oooooh, dig the ivory and gold French Provincial princess bed. I wanted one of these so bad when I was growing up. But my evil mother (just kidding, mom) stuck me with practical maple that oh by the way is still in the family.

Oooh la la, a very wonderful modern church chandelier. The shade is some sort of acrylic, and it’s trimmed with wood (birch?) and unlacquered brass. Just $35. I am kicking myself for not buying it, drats. What the heck, my luggage was already overweight due to the vintage Hall-Mack advertising display that Lauren brought me. DH wouldn’t mind a religious relic, too, now, would he?

A little bit of lighting sweetness for a foyer. I love the frosted glass on this style of vintage light fixture.

I noticed on another blog some dumping on old-fashioned interior wood shutters. Hey, I like these!

A cute maple hutch. One of the things I really tend to like about these is their scale — they are usually not too big for our smallish rooms and ceilings. Lots of collection display space, too.

I’ve always liked the look of screens like this, although I am not sure I’d ever put one in my house. I could see buying this, and taking it apart to transform / repurpose / upcycle each panel into something else, though.

Outside, you could get a whole vintage colonial lamp post.

I know this is hard to see – but it appears to be a large acrylic storage or display case of some sort. I was thinking: If I lived in Charlotte, I would buy it to hold all my vintage wallpaper.

This concrete piping (?) had an interesting shape and was about 12″ square. I was thinking, you could wet-saw each piece into a different length then stand the pieces up and make them into mid-mod planters.

Maybe use this turquoise wire containter (?) material as a trellis? Would it get too hot? Perhaps it also could be repurposed as a groovy fencing.

Last but not least: How many homeless piano-organs do you think there are now in shops across America? I know that I saved one — a 1971 Conn. DH was not happy, oh no no no.  This vintage Kimball organ is surely a beauty.

The vintage Lowrey was lovely.

This one, too, is very pretty.

Ta da. Thank you, ReStore Habitat for Humanity Charlotte.