When I was a youngster there were no IKEAs (or Habitat or similar) - Furnishing and fittings were meant to last and second hand or things passed along from within the family were very much order of the day - this did give some continuity and there was also an approach that included restoration and repair.
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| That's quite a table |
Programmes like
Changing Rooms (as an example) were (I think) the antipathy of these ideas- sadly now the stories we have around the objects in our homes are more likely to be 'I found it on Amazon at a great price than I got this from a great aunt when she moved into a home' or 'it's from a market and I restored it'.
In town the other day and saw this establishment (below) made me wonder how they can make a living and what people would shop there.
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| At least something of a story |
Red 235
Sounds like the Wild West
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| but it's only the Wild West End (of London) |
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