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perfect colour combinations

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Sanguimario - here boy!

Sanguimario – here boy!

Tomorrow I head back to the house for the first time in a month. The decorating gods must have known this as yesterday they provided a little companion-animal for the trip in the form of this little oil painting. Until yesterday it had lingered in a local thrift store, a hospice shop, and one that I’ve long given up visiting because it’s overpriced and usually full of floral china and crystal…

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The Tented Room

The guest bedroom, once the front parlour The guest bedroom here remains little changed. Used for a while as our bedroom and then a study, it is square in plan with two double sash windows and high ceilings. In the original house it was the front parlour and it still retains a stately sense of occasion and proportion. Soon after we took over we painted the ubiquitous Softboard linings a light…

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perfect lapel

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Perfect colour 

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A heavenly brown tweed suit 

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perfect line-up

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a lovely wall of small portraits

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Detail 19th scrapbook cover