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Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Framing Vintage Wallpaper

Forget vintage, antique most probably....

So we are moving the fake beam covers from the real beams (crazy I know, but another quirk of the previous owners taste), and generally re-vamping the littlest bedroom, and suddenly, from some dark corner of the room, hidden behind a panel that had been in situ for perhaps one hundred years, we spy a little fragment of colour:
Above: The wallpaper in situ, as we found it behind an old panel.


The style, and the age of the wallpaper immediatey gets me in an excited tiz and so the boy carefully extracts the rest of the strip as carefully as possible.


With a hessian back I'm guessing this is pretty old, and I LOVE IT!

Funny how tastes turn full circle!

So I brought a large white frame to display the wallpaper, and it is currently the centre piece over the fireplace in the snug. 

Above: The wallpaper fragment has pride of place on the mantel in the snug.


I love the fact that it is from the house - it feels like a present, and we get to preserve a little moment of the property's history. :)

My little secrets:
Frame fragments of wallpaper from your house - the weirder the better! Create a collage and they will great, and represent your house's past style (no matter how unlikely you would be to choose them yourself!).
Frame: Approx £10 from The Range
Ickle Teddy bear - Steiff (a much treasured gift).

Monday, 2 April 2012

Painting the Chicken House - chick chick chick chick chicken...

Have to have chickens on a small holding (it is the law I believe ;).

So we cleared out the overgrown chicken run and chucked the old falling down chicken house, and picked up all the rubbish and dead chickens (yes really!) and we are left with a lovely large chicken run needing its chicken house!

I saw a wonderful one on ebay, all pretty colours and very cute but £300, and then I found this one, a very similar style and a reasonable price and just in need of a paint job!

Above: Before - The very reasonably priced chicken house sans paint

So I brought one, got some garden paint and one sunny afternoon it turned into this:


Above: the newly painted and quite lovely chicken house in situ in its run.

Really pleased with the result - just need the chickens now... tbc

My little secrets:
Chicken house: eBay £89 (inc free next day delivery!)
Paint: Cuprinol Garden Shades (Heritage), Country Cream and Wild Thyme