Hello there!
In January, I shared a post of our living room with our new coffee table which we bought second hand at Battlesbridge Antiques Centre. It really completed the space in our living room. However, our phone and our internet router just sat on the floor behind the sofa and it was a temptation (for me!) to dump things behind there. CBC said he wished we had some sort of narrow shelf to go behind the sofa to make the phone neater and make it easier to access. He also wished we had a more retro phone as our cordless one was being really unpredictable and dying after 10minutes of talking.
2 weeks ago, on the first Saturday of half term, CBC wanted to go and get some lunch somewhere. We were driving aimlessly, not sure where to go, so I suggested we go to Battlesbridge to a lovely place called Frazer's Tearoom (there's a B&B above there in case anyone ever fancies a trip to Essex!) to have some lunch and perhaps we could find a vintage repurposed phone there.
The lunch was delicious and then we headed into Battlesbridge to look around. In case you don't know, Battlesbridge is a big Antiques centre. There's an old Mill with 6 floors of antiques sellers and some other units spread out over the village. It's really worth a day out there.
Whilst I was looking at a lovely vintage clothing store called Polly's Place- I went in and she had some amazing pieces at really reasonable prices as well as some retro-looking modern pieces- brilliantly, I actually found a pair of Cath Kidston trousers I already own but that are too small for me and I've been searching online on eBay for the next size to replace them- I ended up getting them and a matching jacket as well as a lovely 50's shirt.
When I met CBC, he told me he'd found a SHELF to go behind the sofa. We didn't manage to find a retro phone we liked then but actually, in Northumberland, at the Corbridge Antiques centre, we found the perfect one (which we bought!) . CBC also bought a pair of Scrabble tile wooden coasters with our initials. When we first got back to the car, CBC looked at the shelf (it is handmade, repurposed from pallets I think) and fretted about it.... but actually, when it was in place, it was perfect!!!
Here's the area which has been updated since the last post with a plant, the new Emma Bell painting I featured in the Bloggers Art Gallery (but wasn't up on the wall yet), the new shelf, the new phone and coasters, a plant from the kitchen and my first edition Angela Brazil book. Oh, and some cushion rearrangement.
What do you think?
