// Through The Keyhole
furnished the room with some favourite items – a chest which was once her grandmother’s and a clothes horse which she found at a junk shop.
Millie is highly delighted with her light-filled bedroom, which has a full width window looking out over the garden. The only drawback is that the window made it hard to incorporate a wardrobe – so she has turned an adjoining bedroom into a dressing room, with a pretty white metal day bed in it for guests. Above her bed is a prized possession – a Shawshank Redemption poster which she found in a vintage shop (she loves the image – she’s never seen the film!)
The charming guest room is furnished with finds from around the county. Ever the bargain hunter, Maria discovered the headboard in a charity shop and covered it to match the décor; she bought the table and wardrobe in a junk shop and freshened them up with a coat of white paint and she fashioned the matching bedside tables from part of an old dressing table, also painting them white.
On the roomy upstairs landing Maria has created a delightful work area, with a little desk, a vintage leather chair, a handmade pin- board and reclaimed shelves, formerly the hymn display from Bartestree Chapel, on which she has arranged her collection of pill boxes. “This makes a great little corner,” she says. “I was going to put a sofa here but it works really well with the desk.”
FAVOURITE THINGS: This is a house filled with favourite finds, but one which is close to Maria’s heart is an oak crate with individual compartments for glass bottles. She found it on her first visit to Builth Wells antique fair and she has decorated it with fairy lights and uses it to display fresh flowers.
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