Vintage Pleasure

Thrifting Serendipity

Don't you just love it when the perfect thrifting score comes just at the right time and in the right place?

I made an cheeky impulse bid on a beautiful Victorian nursing chair on ebay. Never expecting to be the highest bidder.

It was local pick up and after the initial shock, and wondering where to put it, we soon realised it was the perfect height for Josie to practice guitar. She just started lessons and is totally loving it.

An added bonus is that it actually looks pretty good in the playroom. After a few years of not being happy with the way that room looked I am actually starting to enjoy spending time in there again.Which is just as well as that is where my sewing stuff is kept.

I'm looking forward to cosy, winter evenings creating in there. The fire on and listening to the beautiful sound of a guitar playing.With maybe Kitty playing on the piano too. Lovely Christmas carols and festive ditties.  Well I can dream can't I ? Will probably be more like squabbles about who's turn it is over the noise of the TV but lets not go there.

 

Around The Home

Thursday has long been for sharing corners of our homes thanks to Amanda.It's such agreat idea and I have found loads of inspiration from browsing through all the pictures.It great to see how other people organise their spaces.

I have posted a very similar photo to this before. It's the view you see from the hall into my sitting room.So called because that's what we expect to happen in there!Not what the girls always want to do which should be done in the aptly named 'Playroom'! Now Angela has asked us to dig deeper and share images of all of a room not just a corner.This one is slightly harder for me as we only have 1 room in the whole house finished!

So here is a view from the door across to the windows.Note the complete lack of curtains.We just can't decide on a fabric.I have bought umpteen samples but nothing my hubby likes!

You will also notice 2 very sleepy girls who just couldn't be persuaded to move out of the way!This next shot is taken standing in the bay window looking across the room.

Notice the complete lack of art on the walls.Again we cannot find something we both like!The colours look so different in real life too.The 'make do for now' sofas  are a much better blue than they seem and the wallpaper is more blue than cream.I tried to take a close-up to show you but it's still not completely accurate.

Then just incase you thought we were any different to 99% of the UK population -yes we do have a goggle-box in here too!!!(the sleepy girls wouldn't let me turn it off for the photo!)

We tried for ages to find a piece of furniture to hide the TV in but ended up with the mahogany cupboard for it to sit on.We picked it up at Newark antiques fair and were told it came for Cambridge university where it housed some sort of scientific equipment.When we moved in this room looked so different.It was like being in a big pot of lemon curd!Yellow walls and yellow carpet!Yuk!!!