When we bought the house last year, each room had piles of what looked like rubbish in them! However, I never throw out my rubbish until I have thought hard about if I can still use it!
I told Charlie to not let the builders get rid of anything and actually when Rich and I visited again in Feb, we had a few days free and decided to go through it to decide what to keep and what they could burn!
The main room for piles of bags and clutter was the bathroom! I sat on the floor and carefully went through it all and soon realised that I had some "treasures".
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| Bathroom pile! |
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| The first "treasure" |
I had a strange feeling like I was been watched as I started to clean and make the things come back into the house! I do hope the lady/ladies that made the cloth in this house years ago do approve of what I am doing!
The wooden crates all had a coat of yacht varnis, dirt cheap and as soon as applied it changes the colour and makes a massive difference.
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| Loo roll holder in bathroom! |
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| Coffee table on wheels |
The loft had a few surprises of loads of old suitcases and bags and bags of clothes! I will do another blog post about all that later as way too much to add to here!
I made the suitcases into a dog bed and a TV cabinet!
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| Dirty but still lovely! |
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| Perfect little bed. |
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Cleaned and a coat of varnish and new life!
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One of the latest finds was hidden right down under the eaves outside the house! Almost missed it really! An old musket, someone told us it could be at least 300 years old, it has certainly seen better days and not sure I can restore this so will leave in its old rusty state!
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| Musket! maybe 300yrs old! |
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| Check out the metal! |
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| Books in a bundle and old bottles! |
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| Love this old tin! |
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| Rich should use this! |
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| Little plastic toys! |
Now the loft also had over 12 bags of old clothes! That will sort through and post later as way too many to show on here!
