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Whenever Bill Bell encounters a Gothic window, a vintage door, or an abandoned banister, it ends up loaded on his truck to be hauled home for his wife, Mary. What follows is a creative feast, wherein over dinner, Bill and Mary confer, doodle design plans on napkins, and then drag out hammers and saws and pound away side by side. Given more salvage than anyone could possibly store, Mary finds ingenious ways to incorporate all of those sundry architectural elements—windows,columns, the occasional spare baluster or newel post—into the assorted outbuildings and greenhouses that share space with their two-story Gothic cottage on their Port George, Nova Scotia property.
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