We found these mirrors while riding the Gardiner's Creek Trail. A Glen Iris street merged into the park and I spotted them glinting in the sun among pieces of furniture. We were biking to my parents' house to look in on it before they got home from an overseas trip, so I grabbed the mirrors and hid them under bushes in the park to come back to on the way home. After I'd left them I kept having visions of someone nicking off with them and I had a knot in my stomach all afternoon until I had them safely occy-strapped to my bike. A little dramatic, maybe, and Simon said they'd likely been there for a week before I spotted them. But they are fabulous, aren't they? I can't believe some of the stuff people throw out. Bless them, the wastrels!
They're plaster and at one point were gold, the white paint is chipping in lots of places. I'd thought I might get my design*sponge on and have a crack at painting them myself. Turquoise, or shocking pink, or one of each. But I showed pictures to a coworker who has an interior decorating business on the side and she says I'm not allowed, I have to leave them as is. She's probably right, they might look a bit janky in colours, instead of having the genteelly impoverished look we try to make work round here.
What do you think?
6 comments:
beautiful! seriously :)
Great find - it is hard to believe they were being thrown out but then the Sally Army guy the same to us when he collected some of our *rubbish* a few months back. "We're not throwing Royal Winton china out," I corrected him, "we are donating it to YOU." They were donating those mirrors to you.
I am all for exploring your own style. Forget shabby chic if that's not your style. I actually really like the distressed look but it is so flogged in these here parts I'm well over it. So yeah, get out the paints. Grab a hot glue gun some fun fur and glitter and go for it.
Actually,just kidding about the last part.
Thankyou :o)
You had me going there!
Winton! Lucky Sally Ally!
I'm into many aspects of shabby chic, but our real preference is for midcentury modern (oh, like everybody!) Our 'style direction' is dictated entirely by what gets chucked by others, and you don't really find any of that stuff on naturestrips. I did find a single Danish-style teak dining chair, its the one nice dining chair we own.
Awesome find. Paint them turquoise and shocking pink, I say!
I love them, but I especially love that you hid them and then worried about them all afternoon.
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