WandaJ Green Spot Antiques in Ontario, Canada, one Spot of Green at a time

What's in a Box... Fill them with Some Great Ideas

2009-11-09T18:58:00.000-05:00

What's In A Box...
Fill them with Some Great Ideas & Function

Boxes are Great Fun and Filled with Adventure and Hidden Treasures. In our shop you will always find boxes & crates stacked up ready & waiting for its new owner to arrive. We just added a few more crates to the mix, I thought I would share a couple of them with you. Interesting stencil gives History to the Crate, Where its been, What it was Used For, it can create instant ties.

Let's take a look at this crate. The History is Great on these OLD Wooden Crates and Connected to our old building. Green Spot Antiques was formerly Cedar Hill Dairy Galt. Since we bought the building we have been collecting items from it's history.

This OLD Dairy Crate has the metal wire slots, one idea with such a design is to incorporate the slots into something useful. Flip the crate on it's end and use as a magazine rack.

OLD Crates are great display, fill it with your favorite dried flowers, add a few interesting twigs into a great arrangement, fills the room with warmth and character.

Some samples of creates currently available in our shop.

Have Fun Filling your Boxes with Great Treasures

Fill them with Some Great Ideas & Function

The Wonders of Salvage Chic

2009-11-01T19:34:00.003-05:00

The wonderful world of Salvage has unlimited possibilities to become the most fabulous Pieces.

It takes a special kinda person to lay claim to a piece of OLD Salvage and turn it into something MORE.
Vision, Imagination, and a little courage is part of the recipe, wanting something no one else has is another, putting it all together from OLD discard objects is Salvage Chic. Adding Value to an otherwise unwanted piece of junk is the Salvage Chic Person.
There are some many object that can be recycled, repurposed, reuse, & reclaimed, We at Green Spot Antiques in Cambridge have a difficult time tossing out almost anything. We recently have saved OLD Pump Organ Pianos. The owner no longer wanted them & just wants it gone to use the space of something else. The old stuff is made to last 100 years or more. Made of solid woods with decorative elements that could make some great Salvage Chic Object.

Here's a rack of old piano keys, imagine the things you could decorate. Take 4 or 5 keys put them together for a mini keyboard place them on the wall of the Music Room, Kid's Room instant WallArt. For the music lover arrange a few keys into a flower bouquet or potted plant, great gift idea. Let you ideas carry you away.

If you have an old piano you would like just gone, we can help.

Now moved, please see below

2009-02-09T04:00:00.010-05:00

Visit our NEW shopping site at greenspot.ning.com

Find more items like this on GreenSpot LIVE- Shop for Salvage, Antiques, & Vintage online

For examples of items we carry,

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Come on in for a vist, in PERSON, on Ebay, or take the Virtual Tour
Green Spot Antiques LIVE FEED. from our store.
As items are SOLD, they are marked here daily. New tour each month.

Visit us on Ebay for bargains and great items.
LIVE feed to the LEFT of this picture.

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cheers
Vince.

What will appear here soon

2008-10-24T01:06:00.003-04:00

Well, it's getting close to a time when I have a few moments to add a few notes here.

In the next coming weeks I'll be adding pictures and some descriptions of the 8 month-long process of rebuilding this building - getting it up to specs.

The interior can be seen on our virtual tour of our store. Some of the brickwork and layout is visible.
I'll be adding more pictures, including some "before" and "after" shots.
It's amazing how it doesn't look like the same building anymore.

In fact, the previous owners popped by a while back and commented on how "it looks like it was always an antiques store" now.
We've had lots of compliments on the building from our previous clients who've popped in, and from new ones as well.

When you stop in, be sure to notice the brickwork, the ceilings, the old metal beams, cement walls, block walls, and windows. There's a story behind each part of this building, and we'll be happy to talk about it with you.
In fact, it's so easy to talk, as compared to the actual work, that we just blabber on and on...... so put some time aside.
We have free parking in front of the store, and lots of parking in the rear parking lot. Just pull in the driveway beside the house portion, and drive into the back.

A handy dandy back entrance awaits you, and so do we.

Carbon Tax - Sales Tax - crap tax - scrap tax, - scrap TAXES

2008-10-11T02:11:00.006-04:00

Well I hate to admit it but some nasty thoughts crop into my brain sometimes.

I read about the "carbon tax" in the local election news, and I wonder.

The government has been charging a "retail sales tax" and GST taxes on used and antique goods for years.

Since buying USED, RE-Used, and Re-Cycled materials is one of the simplest and most carbon-cost effective means of reducing our overall consumption levels , why haven't the brains in Ottawa been able to figure out that providing an incentive to people to purchase re-cycled materials would be beneficial to our economy and the world.

Just drop the PST and GST on used goods, and provide a quick and dirty incentive for more businesses to provide these goods back to the communities, instead of landfill.

Amazing. They can drop the taxes for "energy-efficient" appliances (fridges, stoves, washer, etc) to promote efficiency, but NOT drop the taxes on antiques, or re-used and refurbished items.

Right.... re-using doesn't line the pockets of the big boardrooms now does it?

After all, we wouldn't want the Canadian economy to look like a bunch of scrappers and recyclers, would we?

Only a few more years to go before we all look like the Mad Max films characters, I guess.

Please tell your local councillor, MP, and MPP that taxing Used and re-used goods goes against their newly touted "GREEN" pronouncements.

It's easy to be GREEN when you're really not.

Welcome to Green Spot Antiques Blogspot.

2008-10-08T23:50:00.005-04:00

a quick snapshot of our new building. We're proud of the results after 8 months of renovations.
You should see the insides..... exposed brick, polished concrete floor, large airy and bright windows....... Did we mention the workshop, on the second floor, with electric lift?
lots of parking at the rear, come visit soon.
In the following weeks, we're going to talk about the very GREEN process of restoring this building to it's current glory.
I think you'll like some of the creative solutions we utilized in this building -- just as good as the old wood and nails and hand finish we apply to our antique furniture in our workshop.