"Forgotten Room" offers salvaged art.

Recycling The Past, a national architectural salvage firm based in Barnegat, N.J., has opened a retail center called The Forgotten Room, offering antiques and other salvaged items that can be used in residential and commercial gardens.

"People are just beginning to rediscover the simple pleasure and ambiance of a garden," says Matthew White, founder of Recycling The Past and The Forgotten Room.

"We've already carved a unique niche by preserving one-of-a-kind artifacts for architectural design through Recycling The Past," says White." The Forgotten Room takes design a step further by offering antiques, creations and funky finds for your 'forgotten room'--the garden."

Among the types of items carried at The Forgotten Room's retail store are:

* Custom barn wood and wrought iron creations

* Decorative bronze, terra-cotta and concrete urns, statuary, planters, animals and fountains

* Garden furniture, such as a Mediterranean-style folding chair; a woven-wire Victorian jardiniere and folding garden bench

* Wrought iron gates, fencing and edging

* Birdbaths and sundials.

White says the company's customers include the do-it-yourself inclined as well as contractors, renovators, designers and collectors.

The Forgotten Room's sister company Recycling the Past purchases salvage rights at estates, mansions, public buildings and historical sites across the U.S. in order to preserve historical, one-of-a-kind treasures.

Those unable to visit The Forgotten Room and Recycling the Past in Barnegat, which is about 45 minutes north of Atlantic City, can shop them online at www.theforgotten room.com and www.recyclingthepast.com.