Unit 82

How exciting!!!



Brackley Antique Cellar is the biggest Antique/Vinatge/furniture Centre I have ever been to. There are around 200 dealers selling almost everything and you can spend hours just walking around and admiring antique/shabby chic and collectable items.

I was very pleased when I got an email from the "Cellar" saying that there was a space available (I was on a waiting list for months, that proves how popular the place is)

I went up there to see the unit and loved it, just the right size and a nice location not far from the coffee shop :)

I have had the unit for around 2 months and every time I go up there I spend couple of hours just changing things around.



This photo was taken on my first day. Lots of pictures on walls (to cover the yellow colour.....yuk!), vintage suitcases, table clothes, blankets, tea sets, place and lots more!

This is few weeks ago when I took lots of beautiful vintage table cloths from France, painted tables in Annie Sloan "Paris Grey" and beautifully recovered, by my husband :) in Laura Ashley fabric

Set of 3 tables also painted in Annie Sloan (just love the paint!)







There are certain things that sell like hot cakes; basket and I had 2 beautiful printers trays which I was hoping not to sell and keep them to myself :) Hopefully I can find few more somewhere.







Also tape, magnets and cards from Dots and Spots which I admire and the colours just look so beautiful on my stand

The weeks fly by and it is going better that I expected.

I will be going to my unit on Bank Holiday Monday. I have many great bits and bobs to take with me. I will also take more photos to post on my blog.

You should visit if you are passing Brackley and don't forget I am Unit 82 :)

A bit of painting and decorating

I have finally found some time to finish few things.
My brilliant dad wallpapered our daughter’s room. I absolutely love the Circus wallpaper from Cath Kidston and the light from Laura Ashley.

This weekend we will be paining the walls and choosing carpet. I cannot wait to have it all finished!
I am also very happy with the 1930’s display unit which I painted in Annie Sloan’s Duck Egg Blue and used Cath Kidston (AGAIN!) paper to cover the back. The unit has been in my husband’s studio for months now and I finally finished it.

I distressed the top a little bit and waxed the whole unit.

I love dressers. I already have one at home but one from the garage after makeover looks so much better so I might find a bottom for it and swap it :)
I painted it in Old White and by Annie Sloan and used lovely fabric by Laura Ashley. It would look brilliant in our cranberry dining room.

I love the country, English look

I still have lots of furniture that we want to use in the house but I need to paint them first so there will be more blog posts about it very soon.

Country Living Spring Fair

My daffodils present themselves beautifuly in front of our house.

The Spring has finally arrived so did Country Living Spring Fair. By the entrance there was this lovely beautifuly scented garden. It reminded me of the Chelsea Flower Show. The garden was just perfect and very colourful. I was expecting the show to be very busy as it was Saturday and lots of people visit at the weekend; in places it was so busy that getting through was almost impossible. The main reason I booked the saturday was the seminars; Colour in the home Presented by Joe Studholme, Farrow and Ball paints and Laura Ashley Decorating Workshop, Seminar. I love both and would regret not being part of it. Joe was absolutely fantastic and talked about the colour schemes. For some all the shades of white (neutral colour) look very similar almost the same. We got a mood chart which shows 4 groups of tones; warm grey tones, warm reds, yellow tones, cool greys. All can be found on their website but having someone talking about the colour, styles of decorating, use of colour and wallpapers was great and very inspiring. I met lovely Gabriella aka Moobaacluck She creates gorgeous personalised wooden decorations; prints, canvases and stationery for special occasions, children's rooms, the home. Gabriella is also a very talented painter and has done book illustrations. I love all her paintings especially paintings of flowers; like this beautiful poppies

I treated myself to this lovely print of red tulips which can still be purchased from Gift Wrapped and Gorgeous

The next place I stopped by was Country Styled Homes and met lovely Larch.

Country Styled Homes is an online shop which sell a range of handmade simple, Shaker and New England-style gifts and decorative items for both home and garden.

Many of the products are handmade including hand-painted wooden items, hand-made homespun scented gifts, personalised embroidered hearts and other items as well as wreaths, garlands and hearts made from dried flowers and fruits. For crafters they stock a range of dried fruit, lavender, herbs and spices, wooden and tin shapes and shells and a range of homespun fat quarters.

On the stand I spotted egg cosie and notebook by Jane Lindsey aka Snapdragon, another great designer which I have been following for some time now.

Beauitful cards

I absolutely loved the hanging boats

Hearts - my favourite subject

more lovely cards, hearts and tea cosy

The sea side theme looked fantastic.

I really enjoyed my day at the Spring Fair and I will definitely be going for the Christmas one later on this year.

Work in progress......

Since we moved in into to our Victorian town house we could not decide which bedroom should be the master bedroom.....1 year and 3 months later we managed to make our minds up.

We got my dad to wallpaper the whole bedroom in lovely Laura Ashley wallpaper called "Wilton".

http://www.lauraashley.com/naturals/wilton-wallpaper/invt/3370326/

The wallpaper can be seen just behind the chair. The room looks great now!

I am proudest of a chandelier I purchased in the most amazing antique place

http://www.brackleyantiquecellar.co.uk/ Brackley Antique Cellar, Northamptonshire

This place is filled with antiques, shabby chic furniture and hand made goodies.

We have not decided about the carpet but the wardrobes will be painted in lovely off white colour (not sure which one yet).
There is a beautiful, French looking display unit in our bedroom at the moment. The plan should be to paint it and keep it in the bedroom but there is no way we can fit all of our shoes, clothes and my bags in this "tiny" unit.

You must all agree that the French style wardrobe (with Annie Sloan's treatment) would look fantastic in our new bedroom :) as well as the Victorian (Edwardian?) chest of drawers!

This is how I imagine our window in the bedroom.....window dressing as per picture from a magazine and fabric in duck egg blue from Laura Ashley or something a bit more expensive (fabric in the middle) :)

I cannot wait to show you all the end result and hopefully this will happen very very soon.