The Historic District

Thanks for the kind words James.

That's really cool I bet there is a very worn plunger. It might be leather and replaceable? the advert says it is easier to use than a carpet cleaner.

Ive got the rexair model C, the first vac that could suck up water, needed no filter or bag. evidently it got it's electrical testing without water. it isn't grounded.

I have to wonder if yours worked to get air into fires and if they were used in place of bellows. it looks like it has a much better propulsion system than a standard broom so I bet it flies nicely

Phill, the add lies.

Upper management and I spent a day at the Aberfoyle antique show yesterday. It’s a large open air event twice a year. Six hours of wandering around trinkets and other assorted antiques. We bought a pair of peg lamps for cheap, only $15. Not the fanciest of lights like our other pegs but they are Victorian.
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Haven’t updated my latest antique scores in a while. Now being being that we are decorating in period I have been slowly collecting items that would meet the the Victorian passion for all things old and Chinese.


These three bowls are all provincial Ming dynasty, four to six hundred years old.
I think I may have caught the ‘blue and white fever’

Orientalia always classes up a joint, don'tcha think?

Manalto wrote:Orientalia always classes up a joint, don'tcha think?

Well yes it does James. Orientalizm was a big thing in the Aesthetic design period. If not Japanese and Chinese there were Arabic influences and for a time a real zeal for Egyptian culture.
We’re just a hundred and fourty years behind the curve.

Gothichome wrote:We’re just a hundred and forty years behind the curve.

Or wise enough to embrace it.

My instincts aren't so far off, I guess. When putting together the design elements for my upstairs bathroom, I happened upon this wallpaper. To my eye, it works, so I bought some:

https://www.thibautdesign.com/catalog/p ... /beige_12/

I may even use it! Tabriz is Iran (Persia), of course. Many years ago, a colleague, remembering the aesthetics of his childhood, talked about a decorating fad of his parents' time (late 19th century) - the "Turkish corner." Persian, not Turkish, but I still demand my cigar.

Here's a tidbit about the Turkish corner:

https://www.cdispatch.com/lifestyles/ar ... ?aid=11415

Manalto wrote:

Gothichome wrote:We’re just a hundred and forty years behind the curve.

Or wise enough to embrace it.

My instincts aren't so far off, I guess. When putting together the design elements for my upstairs bathroom, I happened upon this wallpaper. To my eye, it works, so I bought some:

https://www.thibautdesign.com/catalog/p ... /beige_12/

Ooh, nice! I like it.

Thanks for the link James. Already thinking about next winters project room.