Repurposing stuff (part I)

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Virtually nothing gets thrown away in our house, not unless we really can’t think of any possible present or future use for it for us or anyone else. So things tend to reappear in different incarnations. In our old house, the previous owners had boarded up either side of the banisters with hardboard, probably in the 1970s when that smooth streamlined sort of look was the fashion (they also covered over the wood panelled doors in the same way). When we moved in we removed the hardboard, but then we found that for some inexplicable reason they had also removed alternate spindles from the banisters, making gaps just big enough for a small person to fall through. Big One was then only 18 months old, and we didn’t have the time to make and fit new spindles in the gaps, so we had to put the hardboard back. To make the best of the situation we decided to cheer it up a bit with some paint. I’d always liked the idea of a mural but I’m no artist, but since we didn’t like the boards anyway we thought we could do what we liked with them. So I stocked up on lots of colours of part-used paint from the paint recycling charity that used to exist (sadly no longer) and with Big One’s help and some brushes and painting pads we made our own underwater style mural. Not a great work of art but quite fun! All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2018.