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darkemeraldsAs the Rebuilding Center's bumper sticker says, "I love that place!"
It's a sprawling warehouse space on North Mississippi Avenue filled with, basically, used house-parts. If you're remodeling or demolishing, you donate the lumber, windows, doors, plumbing fixtures, appliances, flooring, hardware, cabinets--anything, really, that would have otherwise wound up in the landfill--to the RBC, and then they sort it out and sell it.
Besides employing quite a few people from the neighborhood, the RBC is the financial backbone of community services organization Our United Villages.
The RBC also runs a deconstruction contracting business, which you can hire to take down your structure in a way that conserves most of the materials and responsibly disposes of the rest.
It occurred to me this morning that The Rebuilding Center might have the 2x2 lumber I need to (start to) finish my Roman shades, so off I went in the blowing snow and the suddenly-it's-winter east wind to see what I could find.
The Rebuilding Center made their new buildings out of some of their inventory:
They have a cobb entryway:
The place is full of windows:
...and old sash-weights from windows:
Apparently a school donated some stuff:
I was headed to this warehouse:
When I found what I needed (three lengths of 2x2 lumber--I picked through the selection for the straightest ones, and they were already primed), I handed over a whopping three bucks, and then Tharrell there urged me to bring my bike in so he could help me figure out how best to transport my bargain safely home.
Ellie Rose, the cashier, was so taken with my bike that she wanted a picture, so I had her take one on my phone too.
Total Portland cred: riding home from the Rebuilding Center in the wind and snow with lumber taped to your bike.
It's a sprawling warehouse space on North Mississippi Avenue filled with, basically, used house-parts. If you're remodeling or demolishing, you donate the lumber, windows, doors, plumbing fixtures, appliances, flooring, hardware, cabinets--anything, really, that would have otherwise wound up in the landfill--to the RBC, and then they sort it out and sell it.
Besides employing quite a few people from the neighborhood, the RBC is the financial backbone of community services organization Our United Villages.
The RBC also runs a deconstruction contracting business, which you can hire to take down your structure in a way that conserves most of the materials and responsibly disposes of the rest.
It occurred to me this morning that The Rebuilding Center might have the 2x2 lumber I need to (start to) finish my Roman shades, so off I went in the blowing snow and the suddenly-it's-winter east wind to see what I could find.
The Rebuilding Center made their new buildings out of some of their inventory:
They have a cobb entryway:
The place is full of windows:
...and old sash-weights from windows:
Apparently a school donated some stuff:
I was headed to this warehouse:
When I found what I needed (three lengths of 2x2 lumber--I picked through the selection for the straightest ones, and they were already primed), I handed over a whopping three bucks, and then Tharrell there urged me to bring my bike in so he could help me figure out how best to transport my bargain safely home.
Ellie Rose, the cashier, was so taken with my bike that she wanted a picture, so I had her take one on my phone too.
Total Portland cred: riding home from the Rebuilding Center in the wind and snow with lumber taped to your bike.
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