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October offers everything you need to build a tiny home… at a price you can afford to make your dreams come true.

Siding, flooring, trim, windows, doors, walls, roofing, and plans to put it together if you like. What are you dreaming of for the end of 2026? Are you getting ready for a spell of homesteading, gardening, or getting away from the city to a weekend retreat that you have yet to build? I have a plan for you. What do you need? If you have the materials, can you make the rest happen locally, with people to help build it out?

Beginning in October we will be selling off massive amounts of materials to build with at a 75% discount off from what it would have cost normally. This includes all things from the lumber to the siding, windows, and doors, as well as roofing metal or other items in stock. The weekends will be open for people to come in and load up trucks, trailers, and likely not spend more than a grand or two to do it. Yes, all the parts it would take to build a tiny house like the Kidd or Gingered Swan for a couple grand.

What sort of Christmas present are you looking for? There are many ways to make this possible for you or those you love. Please get in touch if you want to put a package of materials together that will make it possible for you to assemble such a treasure.

For those who are not aware, we quite building houses a few years ago and virtually shut down operations for the last 10 years. After my son, Adam, passed away at 24 years old I have no heirs left and chose not to continue working my 80 hour weeks and being and employer.

Pure Salvage Living llc was sold off to a younger man and Trinity to care for as I was no longer inspired to run a business or have workers to manage. During the last decade I have focused on self improvement, Youthing, and trying to resolve the Bank going predator on me in 2016 when they decided to take the land rather than let me pay it off as it was worth two million on the tax rolls and I only owed $320,000. I also had learned that the land had been used as an industrial waste site for a decade before I bought it and it was contaminated, flowing into the San Marcos River. I wanted to remediate it and make the land productive again, which I set out to do with the creation of the water network required to keep the contamination from running into the San Marcos River, a thousand feet away.

The bank eventually won their battle to take all the land but they refused to deal with the fact that it was contaminated and thus they would have to clean it up once they learned of the problem, or so I thought. They instead chose to hide the known facts and try to get others to buy the judgment they took out on me so as to get around the CERCLA laws that would have required they clean up the property before reselling it if they took it in foreclosure. Instead they set up a proxy to buy it and financed it to him, along with taking all my other property too. Their goal appeared to be get rid of me an no one would know that the land is seriously damaged and must be addressed rather than just go back to letting it drain into the San Marcos River.

So, after decades of battling, selling off most all I had to survive, including the business known as Pure Salvage Living. Luckily, I still work as a salesman and have a chance to offer up some great opportunities to start up Pure Salvage Outposts so as to build more tiny houses locally instead of paying tens of thousands of dollars to move them.

The big Estate Sale for October includes table after table of small things that came out of the many houses torn down over the years that Tiny Texas Houses and Pure Salvage Living llc were operating. The tables are full of things ranging from lamps, appliances, tools, and all the things that people save in houses for decades.

There will be bundles of wood, from flooring to siding to pick from and create your dream doghouses, She Shacks, Man Caves, and Greenhouses. I have thousands of windows to pick from, over a thousand doors, and much trim, siding, beaded wood, and other parts to use to create your dream houses.

From $10-$25 for cheap doors to a few hundred for giant pocket doors or fancy doors in Walnut or Cypress, Long Leaf Pine, and other woods from the north. We once brought in doors from Buffalo, NY, St. Louis, Lincoln, Nebraska, Quincy, Ill., and other places far from Texas for some great variety.

Contact us at Brad@PureSalvageliving.com for an appointment to come and visit before the sales begin in October to clear out as much as possible from the warehouses before the end of 2026.

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First time for a video on the Home Channel. Please let me know if you see this sale is coming.

So much has changed: cleaned up, organized, unpacked, and the sales to move it into the hands of the many are ready to begin the weekend open-to-the-public sales.

There is an amazing variety, still not all unpacked, that is included in such a wide-spectrum sale of stuff from houses taken down over the years, and many other materials galore.

Some will not be able to identify it if you are not an antiques-and-tools geek. The wood will amaze you if you are a wood aficionado who appreciates the trees that were over a thousand years old when harvested. The wood is great and will still last for hundreds of years more when used to build next. The quality is astounding, the variety amazing, from flooring to siding, trim, to lumber. You need something to create beautiful things with… and need incredible materials to do it? Here is that chance to find it, let alone then resist buying more than you need when you see the prices. Please consider: if you have a project, see the pictures and share if you care about giving the old things of the past a chance to shine again.

You can not imagine all the items to create with that are over a hundred years old yet they will last for at least another century or two. Few seem to understand the materials of the past are far better quality, last longer, and look better than vinyl and plastic houses. The pure salvage ethos brings the work of our ancestors to light and creates homes that last for a lifetime. Why not integrate as much of the good stuff into your house, or other creations so as to have something very special? Import-free, Toxin-free. and ready to be something special.

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Memorial Day Weekend will be raining heavily, so why not shop at the biggest vintage building parts sale in history?

Thinking of things to do while the rain is pouring down on Memorial Day weekend, not that it is clear it will be raining through it all? How about visiting the biggest inventory sale for incredible architectural treasures, lumber, and parts to build small houses, or big mansions, and have a home to be proud of when finished.

For those who were not aware of Tiny Texas Houses and Discovery Architectural Antiques, both started by Brad W. Kittel in the 1990s, and in 2007, when Tiny Texas Houses was formed with the massive inventories from the largest architectural warehouses in Texas.

All of the warehouses have been mothballed for ten years now. However, many of them will be emptied out now as I am retiring from this business, still with hopes someone else will buy into it and continue onward with my ethos of All-American materials, no plastic, vinyl, or chemicals to inhale like new houses all have. This is my dream; I hoped to offer a generation, but I have run out of time and now must shut it all down if the heirs to this do not show up soon. When my son passed on to the next life early, he left me with no heirs. To that end, I pray that God provides the people to finish what I started, but if it is not His will, it will not happen. So it goes.

I created this acres-wide pond that was thirty feet deep in my early 60s, after losing my son. I just did as I was directed by a higher authority to prove I believed the prophecy that this is what I would see if I dug deep, focused, and had faith. Miracles happen all the time, but few recognize them.

Check out the posts with pictures, and if you wish, I will craft a plan for the parts you pick so as to create an incredible space for your getaway She-shack or Man-cave.

Why not grow a dream into a tiny house, a place to write, draw, paint, or just meditate?

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The biggest Architectural Antiques & Materials Warehouse Liquidation Sale. Memorial Day Weekend Opportunity!

Yes! Clearing out the entire warehouse at 1020 North College, in Gonzales, Texas. See it on Google Earth, it is that big.

The time: Three main weekends: May, 9-10, then again, but bigger for May 16-18th, & finally over 2026 Memorial Day Weekend to pack it away forever.

Yes, this marks the end of an era, a legend, a myth, someday when the internet erases it from memory if they get to own the Wayback Machine. Come to the sale and carry on the ethos of building sustainably with salvaged treasures. These will never be built again.

No imports. No plastic. NO vinyl. All American-made by our ancestors in an age of many resources and lumber barons all around, with enslaved conscripted laborers who could not earn a living wage.

Except by appointment: Only certain areas will be open to the public for the first sale.
This is a sampling of the portions that will be open to the public for the first sale.

Now is a chance to honor and respect their efforts to create a source of what it takes to build import-free homes that last for centuries, not just decades. Come, see, and buy at incredibly low prices compared to big-box stores, but get much more.

Making Memories for someone you love. That will be when people can carry away the parts they need to build tiny, small, or medium-sized homes, just like you would once see coming on the trains. These parts were for kit houses from Sears and Roebuck, delivered in pre-cut packages for assembly.

The windows, doors, and so much more are still incredibly strong, sustainable to the highest degree, and can be reused to rebuild today.

But there are some classics worth repeating.
Nothing says you have to make your parts look like the originals…

Nothing imported, no trees cut, no glass made to create a house. This is what I offered and taught many who still use the salvage all around to form houses they can use. Why not come with family to load the windows and the doors? Perhaps some trim, and even floors, to build in an hour or two of loading stuff into trailers to take with you?

THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST SALE THAT ANYONE WILL EVER DO, WHERE YOU CAN BUY ALL AMERICAN-MADE AND KNOW IT WILL LAST AS LONG AS YOU.

For appointments or more information, email Bwk@tinytexashouses.com or Darbypsl@gmail.com.

May 9th-10th for preview and windows and doors by the hundreds, plus sets with enough to build more than 60 houses if you choose to use salvage. Come prepared to work with gloves and know there will be dust about. Prepare to see what few ever do and know it will soon all be gone, so now is the time to choose.

What are you seeking to build a home, two bedrooms, like the thirties or the later years, shown in the catalogs of the times that were known for the 100,000 houses that they sent nearly all around. If you had a railroad near your town, I would bet these models can be found, and if you want to remodel one and put back in the original windows and doors, come for more. We got it.

Entire sets for a house are stacked and have not moved or been ransacked. They are dry and could be glazed and painted to last for a lifetime without plastics drying out and breaking. This is what has lasted for centuries: you’ll see if you take care of them, and you find they will take care of you.

You will even find some new old stock in the windows and the trim. There are lots of things you will not find, I know, much without paint and ready to roll. Those who come first see the most and get the chance to skim the cream, perhaps a toast to the early bird who gets the worm, but please, then share and boast. It will be the best buys of your life and perhaps what you need at last. For a few thousand dollars, you might find all you need to put between the studs to create the coolest house that anyone has seen. Why not?

Some ask why I am finally cutting the rope to this anchor, and I can only say that what I found at 70, #Youthing meant I had to stay away from stress like the 80-hour weeks it took to stash all of this stuff. Decades pass, and then Wii learn to value what Wii have, our body, Spirit, mind, all healthy has become my goal, you see. I found something I never knew, and thus I want to give you a path to follow if you wish to see the future that so many will see once they change their views. I hope this will help others get the parts they need to build healthy homes and a tight-knit community that comes from people caring about their unity.

Our Chi, Prana, Energy of Spirit that flows through us is more important than what some people sell it for, life-force indebted and thus bound by the rules of the Matrix. I choose to check out of that game of merchants and taxes, employees, and rules.

Wii are One in motion, and I want to help bring the inspiration and the notion that you can build a house for nearly free if the local Salvage Outpost provides the help that comes for free. I have stashed and saved these parts for a day when some of Darby’s dreams come into play.

Please share the story, just a fantasy of what could happen if Wii all agree to help. Pure Salvage Outposts as local co-ops, I think, will be the path to new equality in the way Wii live most in homes these days. Yes, a unique set of words, but the meaning goes beyond the normal to create solutions all around.

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