Before I sent the chandeliers to be repaired, I took detailed photos of the crystal placement and carefully removed them. This part of the process was perhaps the most intimidating and the easiest.

Dean Hobson and Camilla Connoley are avid collectors, which goes a long way to explaining how two jaunty rickshaws from Java, vintage chandeliers from a nightclub in Hawthorn, and handmade tiles ...

I’m a sucker for old or salvaged materials — from old trim and wavy windows to dressers with a little more patina than might be considered conventionally desirable. So when a friend was about to demo ...