When Making Over a Room, Where Does One Start? With the Blanket Cupboard Of Course!!

The weekend that just past started off so rainy. It came down steadily for several hours at the start of Saturday so as Robert was busy tiling something wonderful for behind the Aga I set about making mischief in one of the guest rooms. When you are forced to stay indoors there is nothing like getting busy on a project that has been waiting for you.

I love this room. It’s big and square and has a certain symmetry. You all know how I feel about THAT! But I wanted to change it a little and was at pains to discover just where the best place to start should be.

In the summer I bought about eight vintage Witney blankets from a local thrift store and I got my answer……. I will start by creating a blanket cupboard in this room and create the rest around that space.

Here’s where I’ve got to. I have finished half of the room. Can you see the blanket cupboard to the right of the bed?

Blankets hold actual real emotions for me, I’m not kidding. The act of having a blanket to hand and being able to reach around and pull it over a chilly body is one of my favourite things.

To make this blanket cupboard work for me I had to have them visible. So I unscrewed the doors to the cupboard and began folding my blanket collection with a certain gusto.

The pastel coloured heavy duty blankets are all thrifted and all cost…….ONE POUND EACH! You have to know what you’re looking for. When I got them to the till the lady looked at me and said in a very haughty tone “You do know that these are dog blankets, don’t you?”

Well I didn’t know that, thank you, and even if they were dog blankets in a former life after a boil wash they would be my blankets so stick that in your pipe and smoke it lady!

Of course I didn’t say that to haughty lady I simply smiled benignly and said “Oh, really?” and grumbled all the way out the door.

Neat piles.

Love ‘em!

So much of my life is not neat or in piles so I do like a neat pile to pop up occasionally.

Beatrix Potter, Vintage Paisley Eiderdowns and dog my blankets.

My new favourite corner and the room is only half finished.

The bed was brought from our old house and was too woody so the ends were covered with a blanket at the top and a huge vintage tablecloth at the end. Not ironed and all the more cosy looking looking for it.

And now to the future project news….Can you see the blanket stitch? We are working on various Christmas bits and pieces around here and several of them are covered in blanket stitch. As one of my all time favourite and most useful stitches I’ll show you exactly how easy it is in a post coming very soon.

And as soon as the other half of the room is finished I’ll show you that too! I can’t get enough of before and afters!

Cherry xo

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