Granny Chic

Let me introduce you to my latest charity shop bargain - a delightful flower print by Vernon Ward:

Brought yesterday, I've given the frame a clean up with some sugar soap and today have hung it up in our front room, whilst Husband is at work. No doubt it'll get the same reception from him as the table did at the weekend, but he's been with me for long enough now to know that my interior style is heavily flavoured with a good dose of 'Granny Chic' as he calls it with tongue firmly in cheek.

I love Vernon Ward's floral pictures; they all look as thought they were styled by that grand dame of flower arranging, Constance Spry.

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I reckon that a group of these floral prints would look stunning all hung together on our currently bare landing wall. Although I'm a big fan of Ward's flower paintings, I'm not too keen on his bird ones. However, I do like his calm looking swan paintings awash with blue and green tones and am on the look out for the right one to hang in the bathroom.

Talking of rooms, Monkeychild's needs a bit of updating this year. I'm going to stick with its current pale pink walls and gold picture rails as they're still in good condition and I don't want to fork out lots of time, effort and money repainting the whole room when it doesn't need it. I've got some ideas involving paper patchwork effects for one wall, but need to keep an eye out for some good graphic designs that suit the current colour scheme. I'll keep you all updated when it starts to progress later on this year.