So we have lived in downtown San Diego for about six and a half months now. And for the past six and a half months, I have been driving by this interesting shop a few times a week. Every. Single. Time. I pass by I think to myself "I should walk down here." But then I get home and life goes on and I never remember until I'm driving by again.
But this past weekend, after the whole "to paint or not to paint our dresser" debacle, which ended with a frantic overstock.com search for bedside tables and the realization that I might never, ever decorate our bedroom, Paul was willing to wander around to some nearby furniture shops for ideas.
I say ideas because the pieces in these nearby shops are in the high thousands. We played "guess the price" on half the chairs just to try to make the other person faint. Basically, these stores are like Ikea but the complete opposite.
At the end of the furniture drooling adventure, we stopped inside the shop that I always drive by, Architecture Salvage. This store is very appropriately named. Plenty of pieces of old homes that you can tell came from a million different sources. This place is far from a bargain. But it was amazing to see so many different objects crammed together with their like pieces. Super overwhelming. But awesome. I took a few photos but keep in mind this is like a quarter of the shop.
Pretty cool, right?
