Buddies, as soon as once more I’m excited to share the latest layer of English nation home model in our dwelling, and I hope it conjures up you! As lots of you already know, blue & white transferware is a favourite round right here, and the gathering has slowly grown over time. Just lately, I used to be re-listening to a favourite podcast the place Marian Parsons (aka Miss Mustard Seed) was speaking about her ironstone assortment. Her level wasn’t a brand new one – that collections have extra influence when grouped. This bought me occupied with these beautiful platters I had scattered about the home. Whereas I did take pleasure in them in lots of rooms, I puzzled what they might appear to be all collectively…
Enter certainly one of my favourite inspiration photographs. This {photograph} from the guide entitled: The Nation Decorator by Miranda Innes has captured my admiration again and again.
This little nook of a kitchen has a great deal of rustic outdated world allure, higgledy-piggledy quirk, and refined magnificence on the similar time. The blue & white will get me, in fact. This was additionally my first introduction to the vintage meat drainer platters. They’re the platters within the image that seem flat and have perforations. Way back these strainers could be positioned within the backside of a pan below the meat to permit the fats to empty. Such cool historical past! I started looking certainly one of these beauties…
Only for enjoyable, here’s a “earlier than” of our kitchen wall earlier than we absolutely reworked.
Here’s a have a look at the subsequent section the place we painted the cabinetry.
And right here’s the way it seems to be at the moment! Matt helped me hold my platter assortment one night after dinner. My objective was to have some semblance of order because it was an announcement design, however to not be too inflexible because the quirk is a part of the allure. We started with the most important, most eye-catching platter within the middle and an equally giant one centered simply beneath. Then we simply constructed out from there.
As you may see I did discover a kind of cool outdated meat strainer platters! They’re more durable to search out than the common octagonal platters. There are a couple of gaps within the assortment however that’s nice with me. I can take my time discovering simply the proper items to fill in. I hope you’ve loved this publish and are impressed as I used to be to collect a favourite assortment and show it as a gaggle.
Till subsequent time,
Take care,
Rachel
