People continually ask Steve, "where do you get your stuff?".  His answer, "Anywhere I can!"   (Just kidding!)

Steve has been a professional pack rat for over 30 years.  He does say that most of the wonderful things he uses in his artful furniture pieces find him.  "It is interesting how the universe has a way of sending things along to those who will most care for them.  We are all just caretakers of our possessions for a period of time.  With our heirlooms, we lovingly leave them to our heirs or an institution that we know will treasure them.  With most reclaimed building artifacts; however, we stay just ahead of the wrecking ball and ultimately a chipper that turns an entire house to pulp in just a few minutes.  It's a sad sight indeed to watch a magnificent dwelling turned to rubble.  I will continue to strive to save and repurpose as long as I am able."

Steve doesn't *really* go around pulling steel fences out of the ground to use in his furniture creations.  On a more serious note, he will be traveling with his camera and photographing some of the buildings and places at which he finds his treasures. 

Steve could not resist this shot and no, he did not set it up, this is just the way he found it.  The old broken wagon wheel was removed from the dumpster  and turned into this beautiful lamp, another piece saved from the landfill.