If  you are not lucky enough to have a home filled with architectural interest, sometimes adding it can be beyond your building skills — or pocket book.

That is why I’m always on the hunt for discarded architectural pieces.

Like these pieces of wood molding from an old church.

It’s rewarding to reinvent something that might otherwise be thrown away.  When I look at an object, I always things of its hidden uses, and what I might make of it.

• Just a little paint and a hook — and what once was headed to the trash now finds a spot in my home.
• I see them all lined up in a bathroom with crisp white towels hanging from them.
• Or in a laundry room — used to hang freshly ironed clothes
• Backpacks, baskets, wreaths, well the list go on of the things that could be hung from them.

An architectural piece like this adds age and character.  I think every home should have something of age and character in it. {and not just the people who live there. =}

The fun thing about reinventing a “retrieved” object is you never really know what it will be until it’s done.  Hence the mystery and fun!

What do you have lying around your home, yard, and garden that you can reinvent?  Let the hunt begin.