10 years ago today, we moved into our lovely Victorian School House so I thought I'd show you a few corners.
Ever the eclectic and not a huge fan of Victorian styling ( though I have enough junk to fill 20 whatnots) we decided on an early 20th century/Deco theme for decorating. (more Surbiton than Mayfair). We had 2 completely empty rooms when we arrived having come from a small 2 bed terrace in Brighton, so the first room to be decorated was our bedroom.
Dressing table and chandelier from antiques fairs, Call Girl poster is an original Swedish cinema sheet.
Every single wall in the house and most ceilings were covered in woodchip (ugh), and some had decorative wall paper over the top of that so any decorating meant at least a couple of days stripping the old stuff off. In most rooms were interesting relics like this
Dyed walls from a vintage paper.
We installed new central heating as we went along and repainted the doors some of which had been stained but were looking rather sad.
Just after we moved in Dad's boss stripped an old house in York and was going to throw out the vitrolite from the bathroom so we rescued it from the skip and kept it until we could re fit the kitchen, it's such a lovely colour. There was also a mid green band which we put in the bathroom, sadly we never saw its original design so we just made it up to fit the space, I have some left over and plan to make a cocktail bar - one day.....
Citrus green and black vitrolite, cabinets MFI & Ikea
The living room has been painted twice, first it was gold and blue but we decided we HATED the gold so repainted it totally blue, with a blue carpet and tiles on the fireplace it is lovely and cool in summer.
1940s Woodmet aluminium side table - ebay. 1930s coffee table antiques fair.
1940s aluminium nest of tables antiques fair, chair & 50s footstool charity shop, recovered. Chandelier ebay France.
Theres not much you can do to make a 42" flat screen TV look 1930s so we didn't go for a vinatge look in the TV room (though we mostly watch old movies and 1960s TV series if that counts). So we went for a fun wallpaper and I found the Powder Room sign at an antiques fair and it conveniently (sorry) points the way to the downstairs loo.
Saturday Evening Post Bathing Belles wallpaper.
Old cinema or nightclub Powder Room illuminated sign - antiques fair.
There are still 2 rooms and the upstairs landing and corridor to decorate, the latter will involve scaffolding and possibly 'a man' due to the high ceilings and bloody woodchip, so maybe in another 10 years it will be done, by which time the bedroom will be looking tatty and we can start all over again.
