© Nancy Warner
“We look forward to many more years of bringing treasured pieces back to life.”
© Sharon Beals
“One of our missions is to pass the knowledge of how to actually properly restore old buildings. Architecture is something that lives beyond us.”
© Sharon Beals
“It’s great to have these environmentally friendly transportation devices. But if you can’t get them repaired, they just end up going to the landfill and that’s probably even worse for the environment.”
© Kathryn Hyde
“My favorite thing to do in this business is to bring an old sign back to life, I get so much pleasure out of getting things working again.”
© Sharon Beals
“I enjoy the process of taking something that some people consider essentially trash, and then turning it back into a finished product, and the gratitude and appreciation that comes with that.”
© Nancy Warner
“I like to bring things back to life—when Sears says it’s no longer fixable, I prove them wrong.”
© Nancy Warner
“In the era when people would reuse things or save things, they were connected to the person who made things.”
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