The up-cycled office
I didn’t forget. I just buried the pictures under a load of house moving stuff.
Here is the almost but not quite complete office.
No, wait. Wrong rug!
It’s a tricky colour on a tricky tiled floor.
I did hang some treasured busy green curtains… but they have to be changed to plain white linen so the rug doesn’t have a colour fight in the room.
I have yet to put up the pictures.
And yes, that chipboard (plus insulation panels hastily shoved in) hides a future fabulous set of French windows which will lead out to the little terrace.
But here you go.
I’m thrilled with the sensible desk that was once a barn door.
I just realised that I didn’t show you the gory details of the renovation job I did on the door.
It was definitely an outside job. And I had to resort to a sander.
I had rather hoped to just scrape it off the old fashioned way.
And the first thing I did was to reassemble my cabinet of curiosities.
Which in my case is porcelain. From Russia, Britain and France.
A whole lot of my life story on every shelf.
And speaking of which….
All my diaries are slowly being hauled out of boxes and placed on display.
Remind me to chase the carpenter when I get back. He did promise the windows before 2022.
28th November 2021 @ 6:47 pm
What a treat – like a number 9 bus that doesn’t come for ages then several turn up together, you give us three posts in a row! Lovely work with the stones at the farm and great timely help from your friend. Then your London move, it must have been exhausting. There are always so many things left to remove when you think you’ve taken them all. Love the tree peeping out of the trolley! And finally your new office-in-the-making. Oddly, my desk looks very similar to yours. Mine was a buvette stand in a previous life and I love it. Your knowledge of Russian antiques might help me solve the mystery of a set of solid silver forks and spoons which I suspect are for Russian tea, taken with lemon. May I send you a picture some time in 2022? Good luck with the cold back in France, we have a foot of snow here and huge drifts. A shock after two days of heavy garden redesign on Thursday and Friday with the landscape gardener. New garden now completely buried!
30th November 2021 @ 7:25 pm
oh yes please do send a picture of your spoons. And the desk.
I am determined to write more often now that the vile job is out of the way