Picked up this really nice deco pedestal basin tonight. Someone on my work buy,sell, exchange was giving it away (yes, free, gratis) because they have just had their bathroom upgraded with modern fittings. This is a genuwine 1930's model, in pretty good condition, and here it is standing in front of the 1960s basin with cupboard underneath, which probably replaced a basin just like this. The irony of life and fashion; one person's modernisation is becomes someone else's idea of yuck. I never use the cupboard under the basin anyway. Mostly it stores bits and pieces that could find a home elsewhere. The new old basin looks great. My bathroom is very very small, so this will give an illusion of more space. And it looks like it belongs there; the bathroom is the most original part of the house (built in 1938) still with its original windows, light fitting and towel rails. The funny thing is that I could have looked for ages for a nice old basin like this and not found one, not for free anyway, so I've snapped it up.
Makes up for continuing difficulties in my work-life, where doors seem to be slowly closing, and the ongoing dreary saga of the city's rebuilding and a looming General Election (expect the usual patronizing rubbish from all sides, who really don't give a shit as long as they get elected).
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