I recently found out about a great salvage and scrap place in Portland called Metalwood Salvage. They make furniture out of salvage to sell at reasonable prices.

Portland has been missing something. A place that everyone needs and needs to love- a Repair Café. These cafés exist in Europe, where people stop by the venue on designated nights to have a coffee and get their toasters repaired. Or the hole in their sweater darned, or perhaps a ripped piece of drapery fixed. Like-minded citizens volunteer their services and skills in an effort to keep goods in good working order and out of the landfill.

Deep in this underground shop stands a 7-foot-tall brontosaurus made mostly of chicken wire. Off to one side two iron beds with a past reveal worn coats of red paint. On a reclaimed wood table sits an enormous birdcage with no feathered creature in sight.