A hundred year old granary building in Ralston, on the edge of the Omaha metro, now holds one of the region’s larger architectural salvage and antique showrooms. Out Of The Box occupies more than 20,000 square feet of restored space at 7401 Main Street, and the scale of the building shapes what shoppers find inside: this is not a booth-by-booth antique mall but a single curated showroom built around reclaimed and designer home goods, arranged so buyers can walk through room-like vignettes rather than aisles of mixed inventory.
The stock leans heavily toward architectural salvage and design pieces meant to be put back to work in a home rather than simply displayed. Lighting is a major category, from chandeliers and wall sconces to exterior fixtures and table lamps, alongside custom doors and door hardware salvaged or sourced for period-appropriate renovation projects. Cabinetry and kitchen components, bath fixtures including vanities, sinks, bathtubs, and toilets, and flooring materials like tile and stone round out the building trade side of the inventory. For furnishing a finished space, the showroom also carries sofas, chairs, tables, beds, dressers, storage pieces, rugs, and decorative accessories and art, so a customer can source both the bones of a renovation and the furniture that goes into the finished room under one roof.
What differentiates Out Of The Box from most secondhand or antique storefronts is its blend of true salvage material with more than fifty designer and brand product lines carried alongside it, including names like Visual Comfort, Restoration Hardware, Stickley, Ralph Lauren, and Kohler. That mix lets the business serve two different kinds of shoppers at once: the renovator or preservationist hunting for a genuine antique mantel, a reclaimed door, or a piece of old hardware that cannot be manufactured new, and the design-focused buyer looking for a new sofa or lighting fixture from a recognizable brand. Few salvage yards in the region combine a restored century-old industrial building, this much square footage, and a curated retail selection in one location.
Out Of The Box is open to walk-in shoppers Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and much of the inventory is also browsable and purchasable online, with the option to reserve specific in-store items ahead of a visit. First-time online buyers have been offered a discount code as an incentive to place an initial order, and the business maintains an active presence across Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and other social platforms where new arrivals and finished projects using salvaged materials are frequently shown off.
For homeowners in the Omaha area working on an older house, the appeal is straightforward: rather than special-ordering reproduction trim or hardware, they can often find an original piece from the same era, already weathered in and full of character, at a showroom built specifically around that kind of reuse. Interior designers and contractors also use the space as a one-stop resource, since the inventory spans everything from a single doorknob to a full kitchen’s worth of cabinetry and fixtures.
Out Of The Box gives Omaha-area shoppers a rare combination in one place: a 20,000-plus square foot architectural salvage showroom housed in a restored century-old granary building, stocked with reclaimed doors, lighting, cabinetry, and bath fixtures alongside furniture and decor from more than fifty established design brands, open seven days a week for browsing in Ralston, Nebraska.
