The Old and the New

The first week of our tree change has been exhausting . It took 10 hours to load and unload in wet and cold conditions...a second truck was needed because there was no room for our large potted topiaries

Day 3 we managed to checkout shopping in the hills and we will do most of our weekly shopping in Lobethal. I found a strange but interesting charity shop called Hosanna's which is a religious shop that relies on donations of goods to support overseas children .Heaps of interesting stuff ...from antiques to kitch. I bought this great  black trunk with brass trim (I found hiding under a stack of dusty stuff)

 

 

 

 

Mr VL found these 3 lovely old medicine bottles ( there's hope  for the boy) !!

 

I bought a pair of antique wooden  lawn bowls from England as a pressie to myself ...I swooped on them as they were underpriced . They are Lignum Vitae with ivory inserts and monogrammed and in their original leather bag . LOVE ...LOVE

 

 

 

 

 

On day 4 we had all our  new light fittings installed that we bought before we moved.

We hated leaving our  French  style glass kitchen pendants behind so we found 2 more.

We put up 3 crystal chandeliers in the formal rooms which will look great when we paint all the revolting existing colours in sparkling white( the floors are black and white in the informal rooms)

 
 

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AFTER

 

 

 

 

 

Table and standard lamps from IKEA

 

Butler's table from WHITE SHED

 

 

 

Giant clock from FREEDOM

 

Once all the rooms are white everything will tie together as at the moment we have blue ,peach and cocoa YUK!

 

 

 

 

 

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