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View Poll Results: Are there good locations to purchase products in the Atalanta area for Vintage / Historic Homes? Tha
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Old 06-04-2014, 02:16 PM
 
Location: St Louis ... With Son's home in Atlanta area
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Is there a showroom in Atlanta area that specializes in products for the Vintage or Historic home ... Thank you ... Chris
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Old 06-04-2014, 08:18 PM
 
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I've yet to find a "treasure chest" like Restoration Station in Nashville* (I've made the drive in a day to snatch a superb art deco chandelier!) around town in recent years - but if someone has any recommendations I'd appreciate them as well.

Of course there are the antiques stores if you are willing to look high & low for unaltered house parts (Scott's, Kudzu, Chamblee Antique Row, Bennett St area, 14th St Antiques, Antiques & Beyond etc) but I have found period grates, hardware, trim, windows, etc.

Reasonably priced:
- Eugenia's antique hardware, Chamblee (tons of hardware/findings - no reproductions)
- The Deconstructed House, Bolton (small but inventory is always revolving, and they also sell antique brick slices & reclaimed granite blocks)
- Rancho Buck Moving/Atlanta Auction Gallery (While not house part specific, this is the most mindblowing convoluted American Pickers style thing you've ever seen. Another long-loved treasure of SW ATL. Note this requires some digging/bargaining/rolling up your sleeves to go through warrens of old warehouses stuffed to the brims with all manner of antiques. They have stacks of doors, lights, ironwork, etc).

For your sky's the limit mansion:
Great Gatsby's auctions
Architectural Antiques on Piedmont near Miami circle
(not sure if still open) Metropolitan Artifacts

You can occasionally find a vintage house parts at salvage places like ReStore/Reclaim It (Habitat for Humanity), Atlanta Salvage on Howell Mill, Hudgins, Lifecycle, etc. Not as much as you used to in the 90s.

*I have found as other Southern cities develop older intown neighborhoods for newer condos/apts/lofts, the more success I have in finding 1880s-1940s era items (especially in Birmingham, Nashville). A bit sad but better than filling up landfills/being lost forever.

With all the teardowns in Decatur/Oakhurst/Kirkwood, you can try to see what you can score from the owners if you need a specific item. I got some replacement tiles for my 1925 fireplace that way (got permission and took them right off the dump truck ).
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