Restoration Enthusiast Gifts

Salvage Hunters

"With less ice these days this provides better camouflage."

'I found the termites!'

"I'd like a new tire for my 1976 Chevy Chevette."

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

'What kind of alteration did you have in mind?'

'This is a wind-up, isn't it?'

Antiques

'I think we're losing sight of out roots.'

"So, how's the money pit in the kitchen coming?"

'We finished all the repairs in the cafeteria kitchen this morning, but the food still tastes lousy.'

Cartoon showing a group snails, one has a large shell underneath him. Another snail, observing, says to his mate: "Another basement conversion.".

'Now there's a real pro! He can even nail while power napping.'

"They lead a simple life - they don't even put gas in their cars."

Cutaway view of house undergoing renovation

'FIre me and you're in big trouble. I'm on the endangered species list!'

Auctioneer: 'Sold to the lady whose husband just walked out!'

You're right, it's the house next door that gets the new window.

"Our hobby is finding old, run-down Victorian houses and levelling them."

"The keep saying unrestored and what a nice PATINA, Ted. A better-sounding word for old tarnished stuff would be SCRINCH or SKRITCH, don't you think, eh, Ted?"

'Green Peace'

'Great to see the ol' museum is finally getting a face-lift.' An old building getting a medical face-lift

Pompeii restoration project.

'The environment people only worry about endangered species, not endangered individuals.'

Endangered Species.

Books of Tablets

"'Frankenstein' is Jewish. I'm Irish on my mother's side befcause she was green, and an 'O'Houligan'..."

"He's a hunter-gatherer-tinkerer-fixer-upper-restorer-reseller."

Alderman shocked at a proposal to pull down Temple Bar

'I've just discovered that one of my ancestors was a Security Goose for the Roman Army...'

'They did a great job in restoring all the 19th century details, but this confounded dress code...'

Under New Mismanagement

Shoe Repair and Pest Control.

Authentic Rinkelmier chair (Built 1723)

"I'm still looking, sir?"