Summerhouse Styling

Summerhouse Styling - The Gossip Chair. 

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As a brown wood chair it sat in my gran’s house.  It had been handed down to her.  As children we observed that it was the place where her adult visitors (like our mum) would sit and spill out their news.

They spoke together in Guernsey French patois which was adult-speke and we kiddies hadn't a clue what they were talking about (we spoke english).  But from their tone and body language we knew the chatter was local chitchat and not world politics. 
So we Sibs named it The Gossip Chair. 

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I saved it when we cleared gran’s house nine years ago because I felt it was key to the house and our memories of it, and last week I finally painted it. .

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I’d thought long and hard before applying paint to it.  But its heritage and integrity are still there IMHO, it’s just been given a new lease of life ... and it looks rather happy for that. .

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It will probably take me another ten years to reupholster the seat!.


I loving saving things.  You too?
Do you like upcycling?  Mending?  Fixing?
TP and I are avid make do and menders.  During this lockdown, TP and I have been making do and mending with the bits and pieces we find around the house, shed and garden, rather than heading to the DIY shop for them paint, bits of wood etc, which of course we can’t do right now.

It’s worked well - err apart from when he’d been zealously fixing garden furniture with bits of  “really good” wood he’d found in the shed, only to discover after fixing picnic table and garden sofa that he’d been using the slats from a bed we’d dismantled!  Oooops!

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A la perchoine,

Mary x

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