Salvaged materials

Shani's favourite find!

Remember the Wombles? “Making good use of the things that we find, the things that everyday folks leave behind?”

Well, we are a bit like that. The cottage is 111 years old and even when it was first built the owner used  mostly salvaged materials. The pressed tin was added some time later and is thought to be from a hotel.

Most of our furniture came from the op shop, our parents’ houses, the side of the road, the local auctions or Tim made it. In fact the only new furniture in the whole place is the red couches in the studio (blame Shani for them!)

Shani’s favourite find is the “depression” chest of drawers in the cottage (made out of packing crates in the 1930’s)

The stone rubble that made the bathroom came from roadworks in White Gum Valley . . . . (and so on)

Shani’s recumbent is the only new bike we have and most of the bikes were rescued from road side throw outs and revived with the help of Alex at Mercers Cycles.