Now, for the upstairs: This is Martin Grainger, Annie and Howard’s five-year-old son. Martin wants to be a basketball player when he grows up, but if his mum catches him shooting baskets over the back of the rocking chair, he just might not make it to “grown up” status.
His bed has a quilt that reads “Little Boys Make Noise”, along with a few throw pillows. There are a few toys on the shelf, and in the toy box under the window.
The parents’ bed was purchased from my favorite shop, now long closed.
When he’s not being a respectable bank branch manager, Howard likes to wear loud Hawaiian print shirts. I cut three of them from a piece of novelty print fabric. The chair is another resin piece from the Biltmore Mansion in Ashville, North Carolina.
Annie’s robe and slippers are waiting for her morning routine.
The rug in front of the armoire is “something” from the 1920s that belong to my grandmother. It’s the wrong shape to be a coaster for under a glass, but it does help a little to hide the fact that I had to piece the green carpet.
Trying to decorate small rooms with slanting walls is beyond challenging.
I blocked off the far wall with foamcore and installed a window, but the side wall was just impossible.
How on earth Howard manages to shave in that mirror with no more light than he has, is a mystery.
The bathtub is a vintage piece, if not exactly an antique. I remember seeing it on Mum’s knickknack shelf when I was a kid.
Here is another view of the bathroom. Shampoo, band-aids – all the necessary things. There is a Kotex box on the shelf over the toilet.
Now, what I see when I write this is not necessarily what’s going to show when I publish it, so we shall see how it all turns out.
Wish me luck!
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