Hi Everyone!

Today, I am sharing a wall that I decorated with a few plates that were collected all through the years, those I found at the Saturday Flea Market in Vienna. Going to this market is something of an adventure, to go out there with the feeling I might find something that is nice that other people found thought to be not worthy keeping. I am probably the type who does not want to put things to waste. There are professional flea market buyers who scours these markets to find objects for their clients. I have seen how beautiful the antique market in Les Puces de Saint-Ouen. It is so huge that you may need to scour the whole market for a week.

Brocante Saint-Ouen, Paris

If I see one I like at the flea market, I haggle with the price and I think I haggle very good. Hubby is always astonished everytime I ask for the price of the thing. I would give my price suggestion to the dealer half off his price.... hubby would smile and somehow always turned-away his head, maybe because he is ashamed of the price I was giving to the dealer! If the dealer said no dice, I would go away, come back after two steps and tell my last price... if the dealer still says no (!) then I´d go away forever, then of course I always anticipate that he will call me and said his reduced price, but mostly I get to pay my price. In Paris, it´s difficult to haggle, most of the dealers pay their stalls, so they have fixed prices for their goods. It´s sometimes take it or leave it situation.

THE BORING WALL

This wall is located in my kitchen-dining room. The row houses in our area were built with few half floors they call maisonette. Each level has half of the normal floor height and the rooms are small although there are 4 bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen-dining room combined. We have a small garden planted pines as hedge for the privacy. I converted the terrace upstairs as my container garden because there are no slugs that devastate my tomatoes and bell peppers, etc. If you think of the small houses in Holland, our house is similar to those, so you get to have plenty of staircase which is a thing for me. When you forget something from the highest floor which is the 6th level you have to painfully go back up stairs and get what you forgot(!!!), So I always bring with me a basket to put all the things I want to bring downstairs.

For this wall, I put all together all the plates that has either fruits or flowers as motifs. Some are hand-downs, others were flea market finds. Up in the cupboard are jugs that I also collect, they are wine jugs used in rustic bars to serve wine. It´s typically a german tradition particularly in the province of Hessen, Germany. The jug is kind of a gray light blue ceramic that has cobalt blue design. There are such containers made to store wheat or corn harvest by farmers in the Alps region.

Added on the wall are figurines below which are actually made of dough brought from a visit in Cyprus.. It is a popular tourist souvenir that are so sensitive and easily breaks. I have them hand-carried and oh my (!) they were heavy!

As I am not a minimalist , I admit I have plenty of dustings to do, but all in all, I am satisfied with the result of the display. One motto is do whatever makes you happy.
Have a great week ahead!

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