The Princess room....!

Oh dear where does time go?!
Late on Wednesday night we received a phone call
from a gentleman who wanted to know 
if we would be interested in selling our house


yes!
yes!
yes!


so, today we started the big clean up and toss out!


They are coming to look in a fortnight so we have a bit of time
Top discovered we actually  have quite a large
back verandah
and I spent the day here
in the Princess room!

the girls call it the Princess room because of the 

height of the bed

(you almost need a stepladder to climb up!)

and they feel we should put a pea under the mattress!

the pink curtains were, alas, inherited with the house

and to date we cannot afford to change them

(the quotes were quite, quite ridiculous!!!!)

The marble mantelpiece holds quite a bit of my

Don Quixote collection 

The golf stick leaning nonchalantly against the fireplace

was an award for a hole in one

Not mine alas!

I am a total shocker when it comes to golf!!

the salon suite is the very first antique I ever bought

I was twelve years old and it cost me 12 pounds!

the light fitting hiding underneath will one day replace the rather nasty chandelier,
but tomorrow it will find a spot in the garage out of sight!

and the mirror needs to be taken out and painted 

before it goes above the fireplace

all our ceilings are pressed metal and the patterns are quite beautiful
it also needs a bit of a clean but it's so far up I'm afraid 
it will just have to do!
Tomorrow I take on the other two guest bedrooms!


Goodnight!

Finally...older than me!!!

I have just told a friend

that I am not

a metal kinda girl!

 only to realise 

that one of my favourite pieces in our home

is just that

metal!

Actually it is worse than metal it is

onyx and gilt!!

way, way, way over the top!

Oh dear! Do you think 

I should have dusted it before taking these?! 

the floor could have done with a good mop too!

Half way up are  the hooks for an umbrella 

or parasol as it is a French piece

Then at the top the hat goes at a jaunty angle

don't you just love the hanger for the coat? (wide and rounded

so no mark was left on the jacket)

and then a small hook for a cane!

There it stands in all it's over the top glory

I understand it is French probably mid 1800's

and if any one has seen one like it

or knows anything about it I would love to hear.

It normally hold a red Fez that UK daughter brought home

for her Father

My Father's pith helmet, rather aged and tired

but it was well worn during the 2nd World War

and a Malacca cane. 

So maybe, just maybe a could be a

metal kinda girl!!

Goodnight