My Favourite Mistake

The Kitchen/ Dining-room Wall: The Sequel (part 1)

If you're new here, you may be totally unaware that my kitchen and dining-room were separated by an ugly wall that made conversation with guests a bit tricky. (If you're not new, you can skip a few paragraphs...)

Peut-être vous souvenez-vous de ce mur entre ma cuisine et ma salle-à-manger qui rendait les conversations avec les invités un peu compliquées..

The kitchen was behing that wall. So I hired a company to get rid of the wall and I draw them what I wanted the new wall to look like. Unfortunately, they went bankrupt, leaving me with something that only slighty looked like my drawing.

La cuisine était derrière ce grand mur blanc. Et encore, là, c'est une super amélioration, après avoir retiré le papier peint orange!

The picture was taken from slightly the same angle. As you can see I was left with no money to take care of the kitchen, but this is the project I'm currently working on.

J'ai fait venir une entreprise qui devait réaliser une ouverture d'après un dessin que je leur avais fourni. Mais ils ont fait faillite, me laissant avec quelque chose n'ayant qu'un vague rapport avec mes plans...

You may have seen on a previous post how I found an idea to use that stupid half-wall as a way to display some pretties by adding a simple shelf there.

Je vous ai déjà montré comment j'ai assez simplement amélioré le demi-mur en ajoutant une étagère.

Well, it made a world's difference, but yet, I thought maybe there could be more to that space. But what?

C'était déjà infiniment mieux, mais je pensais qu'il y avait encore du "potentiel" (mon mot préféré en déco).

The story is going now to an entire place, but stick with me, I have a plan, as usual!

Bon, l'article va sembler partir dans une toute autre direction, mais accrochez-vous, il y a un lien!

I love going to flea-markets that we call "empty-your-attic markets" here in Brittany, it takes place every Sunday morning in villages around my cottage. On one fine Sunday, I was in Etables-sur-Mer where there is this fine beach and a great flea-market twice a year.

Dans un vide-grenier à Etables-sur-Mer, où la magnifique plage ci-dessus se trouve, alors que j'avais déjà épuisé le budget serré que je me donne chaque dimanche, je suis tombée sur deux petites équerres,  qui dans leur précédente vie avaient dû appartenir à un meuble, comme un meuble de toilette ou un buffet breton, par exemple.

Because money can be an issue when you're renovating a cottage on your own, I have a tight budget that I give myself every Sunday and I buy things I need or things for the shop mainly. I don't know what happened to me that day, but at the very end of the market, I found two corbels and bought them.

They probably used to belong to a cabinet like the one below and were removed by their owner. They seemed so lonely, I had to give them a home.

Sur un coup de tête, je les ai achetées. Cinq euros, ça semble rien, mais je ne suis pas habituée à dépasser les limites que je me donne. Du coup, tout le long de trajet de retour, je me suis grondée moi-même: mais qu'est-ce que j'allais bien en faire? Que j'étais idiote de faire des bêtises pareilles!

Or maybe even they were on one of those very ornate cabinets that are typical in Brittany.

 

All the way back home, I scolded myself: "What are you going to do with those? Nothing? You spent money for something that's only going to be in a cupboard and you'll even forget you have them?" Granted, it was only 5 euros, but it could have been used more wisely. I had done a stupid mistake.

Once home, I didn't know were to put them, of course, so I just laid them on that stupid half wall that sill didn't have a shelf (see, we're back there!) while unpacking and washing the china I bought that day. 

Arrivée à la maison, ne sachant pas qu'en faire, je les pose sur mon stupide demi-mur qui n'avait pas encore son étagère - vous voyez, nous y revoilà!

Huh? Perfect size or what??? That's when the idea popped in my mind. What idea? Sorry, you'll have to come back later for that part!!! Just know, the fact that I bought those corbels is now my favourite mistake!

Wow! Pile la même largeur!!! Et là, une idée a germé dans mon cerveau. Laquelle? Désolée, il va falloir revenir plus tard pour le savoir! Sachez déjà que ces petites consoles sont devenues ma bêtise préférée!

Des idées?

Any guess?

See you soon, promise!

A bientôt, c'est promis!

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