Competition Rules
Twenty Builders will have one month and $100 of materials from the ReBuilding Center to create something useful and unique, to be raffled off at our annual Salvage Showdown fundraiser!
Builders will create something useful yet unexpected for one of four categories: Living Room, Dining Room, Bedroom, and Garden. Use your imaginations, get creative, and find inspiration in our reused and salvaged materials!
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1. Application Deadline June 30th
2. Builders can be individuals or teams.
3. Builds must serve some sort of useful function.
4. Builders must use only materials sourced from ReBuilding Center. On Builder’s Night this July, each will choose up to $100 worth of anything for sale in the store. Some items unavailable in the store may be approved.
5. Builders must incorporate at least three different types of material into their creation, i.e. wood, metal, tile, etc.
6. Builders will compete within one of 4 categories: Living Room, Dining Room, Bedroom, or Garden. When you apply, you may choose however many categories for which you would like to be considered. We will be selecting five Builders per category.
7. The Builds must delivered to ReBuilding Center TBD
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Up to 20 Builders will be invited to vie for the elusive Scrappy! If we receive more applications than we have slots, Builder applications will be assessed by a ReBuilding Center team. We will be evaluating applicants with an eye toward: a commitment to reuse, a diverse pool of Builders, and an even distribution within categories.
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On Builders’ Night, the Builders will gather at ReBuilding Center to choose $100 of reclaimed wood, metal, glass, tile, and anything else that strikes their fancy.
They will have one month to fashion a unique creation of functional art for a room in the home - Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen, or Garden.
The Builds must delivered and ready for installation in the ReBuilding Center Pop-Up Gallery by TBD.
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For the three weeks leading up to the Main Event, the Builds will be on display in the ReBuilding Center Pop-Up Gallery!
Customers and supporters will purchase raffle tickets for a chance to win one of the finished pieces. The Builder with the most raffle tickets with The Scrappy!
Tickets will be available online and in the Store until the evening of the Main Event.
Applications due by June 30th!
PAST BUILDS
Looking for inspiration?
Check out the BUILDERS’ GALLERY to find out what our past builders have created! All the Salvage Showdown Builds were raffled off in support of ReBuilding Center and our work out in the community.