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| yes, you're seeing eggs in our living room. we like making our decorative pieces functional |
we recently went
hunting for interesting pieces for the house and discovered this antique
shop/warehouse not too far from where we live. the boys and i hyperventilated
when we saw the pieces being sold. i revamped our home office a couple of weeks
ago and the husband and i agreed that aged window panels embellished with capiz
shells would look perfect on the off-white wall behind my desk. we found just what we were looking for and that
made it an awesome sunday for us.
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| maxi, the antique shop owner, told us our pieces are from ilocos |
i personally have a
special connection with these window pieces because it reminds me of our humble
home way back in the 70's. as a little girl, i enjoyed sitting by the window where the planters were to
watch what was happening on the busy street below me. we lived in an old apartment surrounded
by sliding windows and i remember how pretty they looked, especially when the sun shone on the capiz shells in the morning.
my mother owned an
insanely heavy oval antique table with intricate carvings. to her it was part of a
collection, but to me it was my house. i’d bring my toys and stay under there most of
the day. if the house would fall silent and i was nowhere to be found, that
meant i had fallen into slumber in my “house”. one of the things i remember doing
while lying under the table was watching the blue sky through a hole in the
window where a piece of capiz shell once belonged.
now, seeing these
panels on different parts of the house pleasantly sweep in nostalgia. we only
needed two panels for the office but ended up buying five — because they’re too
pretty to turn our backs to.
i’m currently
completing the work that i’m doing in the office. i’ll post pictures when we
have the final look. for me, it’s half done without the lamp. we’re still
hunting for the “right one”.
