Thrifting

As you may or might not know I love me a good bar­gain. I pre­fer to pop into antique shops or those shops that aren’t really antique shops but that carry a bit of every­thing. I have a favorite one that is close to Squidge’s school so I pop in there at least once a week.  The shop is a war­ren full of nooks and cran­nies filled with THINGS. Some of them are just tat– Princess Diana and Prince Charles wed­ding mugs, those old vases you used to get with a flower deliv­ery, old pho­tographs and paper­back books… you get the idea. I love look­ing around because every once in  a while you find some­thing you like. You might not be able to fig­ure out what you’re going to do with it but for a quid what’s the harm?

I had seen this hall­way table there and I was a bit on the fence about it. I couldn’t fig­ure out if it was butt ugly or per­fect. Here it is in all it’s… um glory. I love the legs on it and I can’t wait to get my hands on it and tart it up a bit.

I had seen a table with very sim­i­lar legs (pedestal style) that had been painted a very vibrant color. I’ve just spent the best part of an hour search­ing Pin­ter­est for it with­out luck. I need to get bet­ter at “like“ing the pho­tos so I can find them later. Well I’m just going to have to try going with the image I have in my head.  Red is com­ing to mind, not a bright glossy red but a dark flat/satin red with some dis­tress­ing.  Opin­ions?  I’m a bit ner­vous as the pic­tures in my head are usu­ally not very good. Not going to stress as the table only cost me £30 and I can always strip the paint off it again!

This is a stor­age table… cab­i­net? I found for the office. I think it will be per­fect to, well,  store things in.  Paper for the printer, files… basi­cally all office sup­plies. It was a bar­gain at £20 and I’m going to paint it a vibrant turquoise… or maybe a sunny yel­low. The office walls are a pale blue so I’m think­ing a bright turquoise-y blue would look fab!

Maybe a dif­fer­ent color on the inside? The sunny yel­low I mentioned?

Watch this space for the reveal!!  Also please ignore the unfin­ished floors, ugly fire­place sur­round and stripped but not yet painted doors!

Don’t you just love thrift store finds? Do any of you thrift? If you do please share your finds and if you’re local what’s you’re favorite spot??