Memories Are Made of This

Today was the culmination of our local NHS hospital's shopping expedition to Lifestyle (Hitchin) last week, when they purchased many items to create two Memory Rooms for dementia patients. These rooms would provide an ambient environment full of nostalgic memories inspired by items from a past era or of vintage style.

Naturally, our emporium in Hitchin was the first choice of the room designers, offering as it does a huge eclectic mix over two floors of vintage and retro items, perfect for the creation of the Memory Rooms.

Having purchased most of the furniture items from both our bay and from The Nest upstairs, it fell upon us to deliver all items purchased. So with two vans loaded by mid-day, we were on our way.

It also fell upon us to unload and transport all items up to Dementia Ward on Floor 9. With hospital porters busy transporting patients too and fro, with the help of nursing staff, we loaded all small items into cages, and with the aid of our home-made flat bed trolley, succeeded in getting everything to the 9th floor safe and sound. 

We, at Owl Cottage Vintiques and at The Nest, are delighted to be the contributors to such a worthy and innovative scheme. 

All Change

Wednesday is stock change and delivery day for us. With two dressers to take out of our bay at Lifestyle (Hitchin) for delivery, we were replacing these with two more, plus a few smaller items.

Dodging the showers, we managed to do the swap over within an hour or two, and I found time to pop into our local Farrow & Ball stockist for a tin of Estate eggshell in a neutral shade called Archive. I like to alternate between primary colours and neutral shades, and thought this would make a distinct change from the Antibes Green dresser Ive been working on for the past week.

We did one delivery this afternoon and have one to do tomorrow to a local Care Home, but more of that story tomorrow.....

With the football season in full swing, I'm happy to spend match time of an evening working on smaller projects and trying something a bit different, while hubby coaches the teams from his armchair.

These metal drawers were given the industrial treatment during last night's match thanks to some numerals from Shabby Chic Stencils. The drawer fronts were first sprayed with PlastiKote Chrome Project Enamel, the numbers stencilled with Annie Sloan Graphite, and then, when dry, I sprayed all the drawer fronts with CarPlan Crystal Clear Lacquer to seal. I decided to leave the outer body in the original black as a contrast.  These will go into our bay and it remains to be seen if Hitchin is ready for the Industrial Look yet!