Learn about over 2 decades of Black Dog Salvage history with our interactive timeline.
Mike and Tay relaunch The Black Dog Salvage Podcast with video available on YouTube. Each week they go behind-the-scenes of a Salvage Dawgs episode starting with Season 1, episode 1.
Updated hours: beginning in July 2022, Black Dog Salvage is closed to the public on Wednesdays. The Black Dog Salvage Receiving Warehouse “BDS2” is available by appointment Monday-Friday.
The Black Dog Salvage Podcast launches with 6 episodes featuring interviews with Steve Thomas, Rutledge Wood, Mark Bowe, Grayson Goldsmith, Bill Hayes, and Jimmy DiResta.
The Loft Gallery, featuring regional art, pottery, sculpture, and furniture opens upstairs at Black Dog Salvage. This new space is also available to host private events in a unique setting.
Season 11 completes the Salvage Dawgs series. All 143 episodes can be found on Amazon, Discovery Plus, DIY Go app, iTunes, Magnolia Network, YouTubeTV, and streaming devices.
The Dog Bowl, an outdoor music venue, opens at Black Dog Salvage.
The Stone House at Black Dog Salvage has been a project near and dear to our hearts. The house sits on the property directly next to our Roanoke Showroom, and is now open as a vacation rental property! The house showcases a salvage inspired lifestyle with products sourced from Black Dog Salvage. Originally built by stoneman Michael Grosso and his son Joseph in 1911, it has been fully renovated, preserving the original architecture throughout the home. The house serves as the ultimate showroom for architectural salvage inspired design, with several custom pieces built in our shop and featured in Season 9 of Salvage Dawgs.
Highlights from Season 9 include a special build and delivery for The Joel Fund and L-Z Grace, carefully deconstructing a log cabin in Drakes Branch, VA, and helping with the Downtown Revitalization Project in Kannapolis, NC.
Highlights from Season 8 include a special delivery to Virginia Military Institute and a mast with a past for Ballast Point Brewery’s new east coast location in nearby Daleville, Virginia.
Filming episode 809 marks the 100th episode for The Dawgs!
Black Dog’s nearby receiving and storage warehouse “BDS2” opens to the public. Customers can browse this down and dirty salvage warehouse for new arrivals of architectural salvage and unusual treasures.
Black Dog Salvage opens on Sundays for the first time.
Black Dog Salvage opens showrooms at High Point Market, the largest home furnishings industry trade show in the world. The Black Dog Salvage “Style” multi-category furniture line launches to retailers in the U.S., Canada and beyond.
This season the Dawgs tackle their first aeronautical salvage job and learn that the process is not unlike deconstructing buildings, with the proper guidance.
This season hits home as the Dawgs travel to Richmond, Virginia to visit Mike Whiteside’s daughter, Gracie, at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and Bally, Pennsylvania to tour the Bally Block Factory that Robert’s grandfather used to manage. Mike takes on a special project for his goddaughter, Caroline (Robert’s daughter) to design a bed using reclaimed doors and ceiling tin.
Black Dog Salvage Furniture Paint is a water-based interior paint designed to be easy and fun to use. Our unique formulation will adhere to most surfaces, cover in a single coat, and dry fast to a smooth matte finish. Our color palette uses “true” colors, making it easy for you to custom mix a color for your specific project. Black Dog Salvage Furniture Paint can be used on finished and unfinished furniture, woodwork, metal or glass.
The launch of the new season finds Robert Kulp recovering from knee surgery and unable to join the team on the job site leaving the rest of the crew trying to manage the project under the “WWRD” (What Would Robert Do?) premise. With carefree Mike Whiteside in charge, fans can rest assured there will be some “near misses” and amusing results from his “do first think second” approach.
While Sally the Salvage Dog adores all her loving fans, she is approaching 13 years old. She’s training the next generation, Molly May and Stella, so she can enjoy more quiet time in Mike’s office.
The hits keep coming with our first trip West of the Mississippi to salvage an amusement park & a special episode with the Country Music stars Thompson Square.
We need more room! We can’t believe it ourselves but 40,000 sqft can no longer contain what Black Dog Salvage has become. 2014 saw the addition of a receiving and storage warehouse across the Memorial Bridge in the Norwich Park area.
Season 3 finds the crew involved with the tedious job of salvaging a very large clay-fired tile roof, Very Big Snakes & a personal story about Grayson’s Grandmother and St. Andrew’s Catholic Church.
They liked us! DIY Network orders more shows from Figure 8 Films & Trailblazer Studios.
What started out as a “fishing” story finally becomes a reality on the DIY Network!
Nobody knew if this was even going to work. Who wants to watch a bunch of guys salvage a building?
An entire neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt was being demolished and it contained 100 to 200 year old hand wrought iron. It was a long journey across the Atlantic in containers to Michigan before it finally arrived by flatbed here in Roanoke, Virginia. We incorporate much of this iron into our custom designs as it adds beauty, flair and even more history to our unique pieces.
Mike’s first dog Molly was approaching retirement age and no longer enjoyed long days on salvage jobs. Sally the Salvage Dog became the new dog in training.
40,000 sqft is a lot of space to fill when you are just starting out. Mike & Robert decided to rent booth space to like minded collectors, artists & artisans to help keep the lights on. The Memorial Bridge Marketplace was born.
After three years of business, Black Dog outgrew its building and purchased a 40,000 square warehouse next to the Memorial Bridge near Grandin Village in Roanoke, VA.
From a vinyl sign with the word “Salvage” written on it to a new logo & image as Black Dog Salvage.
In a warehouse Mike had rented for another project, with Mike’s 1st black dog Molly, they turned over an old vinyl sign – wrote ‘SALVAGE’ – and moments later a customer pulled into the parking lot. They haven’t looked back since.
Black Dog Salvage found its beginnings with the salvage of some of Roanoke Virginia’s most notable architectural details at 21 Highland Ave.
Starting a salvage business was not intentional. Mike needed a garage built; Robert came to give him advice. The two found kindred souls in each other, having both served in the Navy. After lamenting the pending demolition of a local 1892 landmark filled with architectural details, they took a chance, made a salvage offer and began saving the house piece by piece.
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