Vintage-furniture scavengers turn trash into treasure online - Los Angeles Times

May 12, 2009

Forget that you're standing behind a giant green dumpster in a driveway cluttered with dusty relics of someone's past. Forget the musty smell, the awkward silence. Now stare down that shabby $5 metal cabinet. Do you see trash? Treasure?

If you're Alexis Hadjopulos or Tom Whitman, you see an industrial vintage piece worth well over its garage-sale price tag. Which is why that metal cabinet is now pictured on their online furniture store, ThisIsNotIkea.com...