There is an opportunity to source reclaimed building materials from the Tiny Texas houses pre deconstruction sale of giant Cotton Warehouses from the late 1800's, including vintage doors, wavy glass windows, trim, siding, porch posts, fireplaces, Long Leaf Pine beams, joists, and flooring. There are 135,000 square feet of buildings.
 
Viewing in July by appointment only with a $500 minimum purchase to come to the warehouses. It can take up to two or three hours just to get through all the buildings so viewing is only available for serious buyers. Then limited VIP only access till October.
 
The architectural salvage and reclaimed materials were collected by Brad Kittel, of Tiny Texas Houses fame. The salvage was collected for an Architectural Antiques store in the 1990s but has been 'mothballed' since 2015. The warehouses are now being deconstructed so they and the salvaged materials all have be sold.
 
See images at the link below and to get a chance to tour the warehouses contact Darby Lettick: [email protected] or call 512-636-6756
 
Darby Lettick wrote, Salvage Building in 2012, and since then 'downsizing has become a real game-changer in America: The Pure Salvage Living Movement is based on the pioneering work done by Tiny Texas Houses in the field of Tiny Portable and Healthy housing built from 99% Pure Salvage. The movement is founded on the idea that we can build energy efficient houses from the best of materials ever produced in America over the last couple centuries when quality resources were easily tapped and manpower was cheap. It results in a sub zero carbon footprint when the Tiny House is finished.'
 
Darby goes onto say, 'The carbon savings from a single cast iron sink or tub more than pays for the construction and new life energy requirements for this house for years. This means a gigantic saving in energy and resources from the standpoint of mining, manufacturing, distribution to the market place and the end users. It adds value based on the threefold longevity of the materials and compared with new hardware with built-in obsolescence as a marketing strategy. We will never grow the 300+-year-old trees to cut down again, nor have the access to the skilled artisans and materials that our ancestors had to work with when the built this country the first time.'
 
Tiny Texas Houses llc was created in 2006 to prove how to build Organic Sustainable Tiny Houses, then put to bed in 2019. Now it is just a place to visit instead and guests come for overnight visits, play in the ponds, walk the trails and dream of living in.
 
Their Tiny House movement has since spread throughout America, as Michael Morel reports in a previous Salvo News story:
 
'Something strange and new is happening in America. Two of its opposing cultural mythologies-the American Dream and the Great American Road Trip-have morphed into a bizarre new hybrid lifestyle with its own unique identity. The unlikely force that brought them together?' Read more the link below.
 
A tiny house even featured as the home of Coyote in a popular television drama, Grace and Frankie, starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. It was made with reclaimed lumber and old Navajo blankets were made into cushions for the single couch bed. The reclaimed tiny house design added extra warmth to the character of Coyote, the son of Frankie and Sol, played by Ethan Embry.
 
In real life tiny living has provided for many American's a mobile, eco friendly, minimalist and mortgage free lifestyle.