IDAHO STATESMAN JOURNAL …

5. The architecture

“Astoria is one of the oldest towns in the West, and it has the cool, old buildings and beautiful Victorian homes to prove it. The Flavel House, once owned by an early boat captain, is now a museum. The Elliot and Commodore hotels are in restored old buildings downtown. For one of the coolest glimpses of the past, go to Vintage Hardware on the corner of 14th and Duane streets. The used furnishings and hardware store is in the partially restored Astor Hotel, and you can wander through the hotel’s once-grand foyer with its vaulted ceilings, second-floor balconies and elaborate plaster work.”

Read more: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/07/17/1729183/10-reasons-to-head-toastoria-ore.html#ixzz1UvYtaYjF

Vintage Hardware featured in Green Living magazine … Daily Astorian 8/11/201

“We are very proud that our efforts of being eco-conscious and upcycling with furniture and house parts is being recognized outside our community,” said Johnson.  “However, the success of Vintage Hardware is largely due to the support and excitement of our local community.  Their purchases, contributions and support prove that the North Coast is hip and environmentally savvy.”

AT A NEWSTAND NEAR YOU…Oregon Home Magazine annually publishes a GREEN LIVING issue … 2011 issue has an article featuring Vintage Hardware and the furniture Paul creates using salvaged materials.  Pick up your copy available mid-July.  The entire issue is dedicated to being green and sustainable.  We are so thrilled and honored by the acknowledgement of what we’re doing … that by using materials and objects we are rescuing and upcycling is positively affecting our footprint (as well as being really hip).

“Upcycling is a reminder that we can ‘cycle’ energy; we can recapture and utilize the energy in objects and put them back on the top of the wheel,” Daniel Thomas, Hammer and Hand.