A Mishmash of Style. The Grande Finale!

Hark at me, bigging up the final part of my series A Mishmash of Style.  The "grande finale" indeed!  What am I like?  No, don't answer that one, you cheeky blighters!

So, let's have a look at my revamps and little projects around the house. 

I've bored you before about stuff I've made in previous posts but forgot to show you my knitted er.... dunno what it's called....er.... a cosy for a bottle which I use as a vase thingy:

There are loads of such things in blogland but they are usually crocheted and mine is knitted.

Now, if you are not of the crafty kind and have a short attention span, this is one hell of a perfect project for you.  Paper bunting.

This took me all of 20 minutes to do.  I bought a pack of mixed crafty paper from a pound shop, cut out small bunting shaped pieces (aka triangles) and glued them onto string et voila!  Couldn't be simpler, could it?

This is our shoe cupboard bought from Ikea and embellished with large butterfly stickers from Supernice.

Supernice has a lovely range of wall stickers, bunting and gifts such as my Amy Winehouse travel card holder here.  However, what is really tickling my fancy at the moment, are these fabulous wallpaper silhouettes made from the most fantastic selection of vintage wallpaper.  I'm rather liking this giraffe:

Or take a look at Mr Ostriche:

Yowser! That wallpaper reminds me of my very own wallpaper that I blogged about here.  Look!

I bet some of you clever artistic people out there could make those animals very easily. Although, you would need more than one strip of wallpaper to create a big animal (the giraffe for instance is 140 cm by 100cm!). If you wanted to go small, though, there's these cute little birds:

 

Or this:

Or this:

Anyway, dear readers, I've digressed big time.  Let's get back to the nitty gritty, shall we? 

This coffee table was given to Mr J and P by his Grandmother Gladys (she who painted roses and the occasional nude - I've never shown you the nude have I?  I will, one day!) for his 21st birthday.  There used to be an old map underneath the glass top but over the years, it became very faded.  We searched for a replacement but couldn't find anything suitable, so as a temporary measure, I bunged in a cheap bit of fabric from Ikea.  This "temporary measure" has been in place for some years now!

I bought this old desk from a yard sale for a couple of quid.  I painted it white and then decoupaged it with pages from Little Miss J and P's old Beano mags:

I had this old wardrobe door when I was living in a shared house ooooh decades ago now!  I painted it a hot pink and it look horrible and then painted it white, did a bit distressing and added a few shells and bob's yer uncle:

I've posted about this brassy looking magazine rack before.  Here's the before:

And the after:

I have masses of these wonderful posters given out free with The Guardian some years ago now.  These are just a very small selection of what I've got:

I've used a few of them to cover these shoe and boot boxes:

Any ideas of what to do with the rest of them would be greatly appreciated!

OK folks, that really is it!  Thanks for bearing with me and for your lovely comments on parts 1 and 2.

Byeeeeee xxxxxx.

A Mishmash of Style. Part 1

At J and P Towers, today, we're having a little spring clean!  Or, in the words of Mr J and P, we're having "a good poke around in corners that aint never been poked before!"  Yes Sireeee.

Our home style, in case any of you darlings were wondering, is a little bit modern, a little kitsch, a bit vintage, a little ethnic and a little bit embellished.  Yes, you guessed it, it's a  mishmash of styles.

I thought I'd show you a few of my favourite things dotted around the house starting off with some modern objets.  First up is a cardboard stag.  Yes, you did read that correctly, here it is:
 

I bought the cardboard stag kit for Mr J and P two Xmases ago and he assembled it all by himself.  Didn't he do well?

A very modern cuckoo clock which permanently has the time of 10.15 on it because nobody in this house ever remembers to put in a new battery.

The standard lamp in our front room.  The base is a cheap one from Ikea and the shade is from Graham and Green, one of my favourite online shops. The shade is made from wallpaper by either Osborne and Little or Cole & Son, can't remember which now.

Very modern flying ducks in our downstairs loo.

Our loo walls are a calming shade of green NOT this strange mustard colour.  I blame the camera....

A modern take on the sunburst clock by Karlsson:

Now, people go on about Scandinavian style which is great but I'm a keen fan of the Dutch style.  We have Dutch friends and the home of one couple, in particular, is a wonderful mix of modern and kitsch (next time we go visit I'll take photos to show you, you won't be disappointed).  Looking around our house, my favourite kitschy items happen to be presents from our Dutch friends.  Yes, we're now looking at our kitsch stuff, (come on, keep up at the back please).  Take a look at this wonderful holder which we use for storing paper towels but which can also be used for toilet rolls or even magazines and newspapers:

Made from delicious Mexican oilcloth, it's from a shop called Kitsch Kitchen.  Check out the link here and drool over the bright plastic and oilcloth goodies.

I love my squirrel knob (er hem):

It's from Pakhuis Oost, it's well worth looking at their website here if you don't know it already.

I'm not sure that this is really kitsch but I'll bung it here anyway.  It's a Delftware milk jug.  It's sooo cute, I love it:

Look at this lovely photo frame.  It's got nearly everything a body could ever desire.  Ric-rac, pompoms and.....

CLOGS.  With Ribbons.  Swoooon......

An itsy bitsy photoframe with an equally itsy bitsy piccy of Little Miss J and P:

Well folks, that's it for one post.  Don't get too excited now, but I'll be posting Part 2 in a few days time.  I bet you can't wait.....