Hidden Treasures

House Wren makes old things new again
by Megan Willome

You never know what’s in a drawer.

Nancy and Mike Clark had bought an old, iron medical cabinet. After scrubbing out the rusty, brown water and grinding open the nuts and bolts, they found a treasure — $2,000 in bills from 1936. The Clarks posted a picture online, reminding people to “clean their old pieces.”

Making new treasures from old finds is the focus of the Clarks’ shop, House Wren. Located in a metal barn on Highway 290, between Stonewall and Fredericksburg, they buy old and make new so that items can be loved again.

“I like that we bring life back into things otherwise thrown away. I don’t like wasting things,” Nancy said.

Read the rest of the story in the fall issue of Rock&Vine