Decorating casa Monk

[HBS Guy]

I am pretty old tho still, just, on the right side of 80 (should that not be the left side like 1,2, 3. . .78,79,80. . .?

In my 78 years I acquired a couple small pieces of detached retina. When I look at a blank wall they cause “floating spots” which are annoying, extremely annoying!

So I will take some of my nicer plates and hang them on the walls where I don’t want to hang paintings or photos. Just to break up bland wall space.

Will try and make it interesting, hang up three plates or saucers that make a statement, color or style or whatever.

And I have no idea where some of my bigger pictures are! Could be in Adelaide?

 

[HBS Guy]

So one of the items ordered from Amazon was a collection of plate hangers.

One place they will be handy is around and above my big wood burning heater—too hot there for paintings/prints/photos!

One of my items is a wall hanging we ordered early in our business—crowded office, no space for partitions so some artists created hangings out of bedsheets, acrylic paint then several cans of Axminster treatment. The photo below is the heart of it.

We had a nice spiky orange and green logo hence the hangings were of spiky things/shapes like the quiff on the rock and rolldancer’s head plus their hands, shoes etc..

Good times they were, worth preserving a bit of it.

Bit dirty and creased but can’t fix it.

 

[HBS Guy]

Oh yeah, one advantage of old age—you have the satisfaction of reading obituaries. Business partner who nearly wrecked the business and then left died in Nov 2007.

He was abstemious, in the Eagle Scouts till he was like 19, didn’t smoke, take drugs—mortibus aged just 57! Life is funny like that, eh?

 

[Squire]

Have you forsaken Australian standard flying ducks on the wall?

 

[HBS Guy]

Never considered them.

 

[Squire]

Never considered them.

Please consider! Broadens your horizons.

 

[HBS Guy]

Oh fuck off!

 

[HBS Guy]

Hmmm I have two Clarice Cliff plates, each a different pattern. Wander what other English art deco pieces I have.

Be nice to find plates/cake plates etc were designed by the other two female English art deco pottery designers. Work out a Bizarro arrangement?

 

[HBS Guy]

LOL

 

[HBS Guy]

Clarice Cliff plate:

The border looks 1930s.

 

[HBS Guy]

AHAHAHAHA not only did I find the testamur of my BSc I just now found the testamurs of my Leaving and Leaving Honors certificates containing results!

 

[HBS Guy]

I found a Bizarre plate by Clarice Cliff so now have three of her plates on the return wall next to the heater. Will remove the small hanging—distracting.

 

[HBS Guy]

Hmmm My large woodburning heater stands in a corner, a wall behind it and one to one side (that one has the cliff.)

Got samples and a brochure of “pressed tin panels” which are really aluminium panels. Brochure shows the walls around the heater covered floor to ceiling in the pressed panels. Looks great!

 

[HBS Guy]

For splashbacks 600 x 1800 for $220 or 900 x 1800 for $255.

Hmmm 470 x 620 for just $90 each. MIght get one or two, want to have a small bar area in a corner of the study, clean crisp metal be nice.

Hah, antique shop in Strathalbyn had an original English round bar table, nice and scarred by long rough pub use: burn marks from cigarettes etc. Looked longingly at it—$3,500, too much for me!

Study is a former front bedroom. Used to share a chimney with the lounge (2 fireplaces, common flue) chimney and fireplaces gone, replaced by open space. So desk with computer, filing cabinet, bookcases, trestle table for projects, drawing garden plans, layouts, diaries, computer stuffs, corner with a small cupboard for glasses, bottle openers, tea and coffee making facilities, bar fridge etc. Study flows into the lounge, esp the “bar” corner.

I have Nepalese bamboo standing on one side of the study-lounge connecting space, gets light in the morning from the lounge window on east side of house and from the study window in northern side in the afternoon. It can’t have too much light and is thriving where it is—need to buy a really nice, not mass manufactured pot to give it more growing space. I have two related types of “indoor succulents” which are prostrate—hang down over the edge of the pot. Maybe hang that up in the study-lounge space? or hang from the ceiling in some sort of cascade?

Want to get some carnivorous plants as well—eat some of the bloody flies that get in!

Depending on space—and Socks—a salt water aquarium with sea horses, hermit crabs etc.

 

[HBS Guy]

Looked in a cardboard box—art nouveau tiles in two tulip patterns.

See one as a ten tile horizontal line and the other pattern as two vertical lines of five tiles.

Opinions?

 

[HBS Guy]

To improve the look of the front passage, maybe this art nouveau dado? From front door to study door. Passage is a mere 1m wide, not impressive.

What you reckon?

 

[HBS Guy]

Aust. Seniors H&C insurance coming up soon.

RACT significantly lower, better benefits and can pay monthly. Bye bye Aust Seniors.

 

[HBS Guy]

One room, the former bedroom connected to the lounge, is now a study and is painted in Haynes “Soft whites” color of Pulp White 1 with double strength Pulp White 1 on the trim—cornices, skirts, window and door frames and architraves etc.

The Nepalese bamboo really softens the opening in the wall between the lounge and study. It is thriving. It is about the 2m height and should thicken.

 

[HBS Guy]

Study:

Glorious hardwood floors

 

[johnsmith]

You can't beat hardwood floors.