Okay, so this is pretty much insane (as am I) but I am moving house...in a year and a half. For a multitude of reasons (including work being done on the house I'm moving to, my OU work and my daughter's college) it can't happen sooner but it is all set up and definite.
Gradually I am working my way through the attic, cupboards and assorted hidey-holes trying to decide what, of the crap accumulated since I arrived here in January 1998, is going to go with me and what will go in the bin. Yes, I know it's a *bit* early but at my level of procrastination I am going to need the time!
I have already made decisions about bathroom tiles and decorating...I'm being horribly unimaginative and having it done very much like my current house because I finally got it how I like it!
This above, for example, is a painting I own (not one of mine) and it hangs on my living room wall (which is painted Dulux Grecian Spa 4)...at the new house the living and dining rooms are conjoined, both will be this colour and the painting will go on the dining room side. This in turn will pick up a poppy / red theme through both rooms including vintage tableware to match stuff I'm hoping to steal off my dad ;)
Vintage tableware is my big passion at the moment - not least cos my first year in the new house I am planning to have my 1st ever big family Christmas (presuming everyone is still alive!) - where I am now is too far away from people and part of the intent of moving is to keep an eye on my ageing father. So far I have an inordinate number of avocado-green 1960s soup bowls and a slowly growing collection of 1970s Hornsea in (as photos) Saffron, Bronte and Heirloom.
Today I am very sad because a big box of mixed Hornsea Bronte and Heirloom brown and Heirloom green arrived at my house smashed to smithereens. Such priorities I have, I know. But elsewhere in my life I have worries about losing one of my jobs, uni work and the crushing weight of being forever alone so I'll continue my mid-life crisis obsessing about cute boys far too young for me and cry over cups that are older than I am getting broken.
One of my themes through the whole house is vintage - I thought of a whole bunch of things (I'm already a good six months into the planning phase) but I didn't want it to be 'dated' so not up to the current trends or limited to one particular time period. The house itself is a modern build but no particular features other than a bit 90s...and no, quite simply! Also, it's a bungalow and despite the fact that I'll be moving in aged 39 I feel the need to make it slightly little-old-ladyish ;) I know, I'm weird.
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