Olen vähän vaivihkaa tehnyt pieniä hankintoja kotiin. Monesti olen maininnut, että meillä remontti ja sisustus etenee hitaasti, joten hankintojakin tehdään melko hitaalla syklillä. Hankin mahdollisimman paljon käytettynä, joten joskus voi asioita joutua etsimään pitempään. No tämä ensimmäinen hankinta ei nyt varsinaisesti ollut mikään pakollinen hankinta, mutta kun polkuompelukone tuli tarjolle, oli pakko noukkia se talteen. Taisin raahata sen kotiin lähes vuosi sitten ja se on siitä asti odotellut kuistilla sopivaa sijoituspaikkaa. Jos muistan oikein, kone taisi olla ilmainen ja nyt sille löytyi paikka salista. Toivottavasti jossain vaiheessa pääsen myös ompelemaan sillä.
Toinen hankinta oli loppukesästä iso villamatto. Isossa talossa tarvitaan paljon mattoja. Sali on iso, joten matotkin saavat olla isohkoja etteivät näytä hassuille. Lisäksi salissa on hirvittävän ruma muovimatto, jonka mielelläni peitän matoilla. Matot luovat kodikkuutta isoon tilaan ja talvella kylmille lattioille. Tässä matossa on melko paljon kulumaa, joten se oli todella edullinen villamatoksi. Se on myös tosi suuri, näin kookasta mattoa ei moneen kotiin mahdu, joten halukkaita ostajiakin voi olla vaikea löytää. Itseäni eivät kulumat haittaa, matoissa eivätkä huonekaluissakaan. Ne antavat esineille persoonallisuutta ja kertovat tarinoita joita uusissa sisustustuotteissa ei ole.
Kolmas hankintakin päätyi saliin. Olen etsinyt vihreitä villaverhoja saliin jo pidemmän aikaa, mutta sopivia ei ole tullut kohdalle. Kuulin jokin aika sitten että pitkäaikainen vintage-kauppa VintagEija lopettaa vuodenvaihteen jälkeen. Nämä jugend-verhot löytyivät Eijan valikoimista. Harmittavasti niitä oli vain yhteen ikkunaan, mutta ajattelin että ehkä voisin tehdä itse toiset samanlaiset toiseen ikkunaan. Toisaalta voisin ripustaa ne myös oviaukkoon, mutta ainakin tällä hetkellä pidän niistä kovasti tuossa ikkunassa, tosin verhokappa ei oikein sovi verhojen kanssa yhteen.

I’ve been making a few small purchases for the house here and there. I’ve mentioned many times that our renovation and interior design are progressing slowly, so we’re making purchases at a fairly slow pace. I buy as many things secondhand as possible, so sometimes I have to spend more time looking for things. This first purchase wasn’t exactly a necessity, but when a treadle sewing machine became available, I just had to grabit. I think I hauled it home almost a year ago, and it’s been sitting on the porch ever since, waiting for the right spot. If I remember correctly, the machine was free, and now I’ve found a spot for it in the living room. Hopefully, at some point, I’ll get to sew with it, too.
Another purchase I made in late summer was a large wool rug. A big house needs lot of rugs. The living room is large, so the rugs need to be fairly big too, otherwise they look a bit silly. The living room also has a terribly ugly plastic flooring which I’d love to cover up with rugs. Rugs add coziness to a large space and to cold floors in the winter. This rug shows quite a bit of wear, so it was a real bargain for a wool rug. It’s also really large—a rug this big wouldn’t fit in many homes, so it might be hard to find buyers. Personally, I don’t mind wear and tear, on rugs or furniture. It gives objects character and tells stories that new home decor items don’t have.
My third purchase also ended up in the living room. I’ve been looking for green wool curtains for the living room for quite some time, but I haven’t come across any suitable ones. I heard a while back that VintagEija, a long-standing vintage shop, is closing down after the New Year. I found these Art Nouveau curtains in Eija’s selection. Unfortunately, there was only enough for one window, but I thought maybe I could make another set just like them for the other window myself. On the other hand, I could also hang them in the doorway, but at least for now I really like how they look in that window—though the valance curtain doesn’t really match the curtains.

This treadle sewing machine is not the most decorative of the all, but it still would have shame to let it go to waste. From my childhood I remember that in the summer time the treadle machine was carried outside. It was fun and easy to sew weaving materials together in the sunshine. Perhaps I could sew something outside on my summer holiday.

Red wool rug is rather worn out here and there, but still very much usable. After all, our house is not brand new either. It’s worn off here and there, more here and less there. Tasteless, but suits to the style, my dad would have jokingly said. He never meant it really, it was the little inside joke of our family.

Long searched green wool curtains are the crown jewel of the living room. Sofa is not in the middle of the window, because there is a closet on the left hand side, which needs access. At some point I will tear the closet down and move the book case on that wall. Then the sofa will finally get to the the proper spot. Sofa also needs new covers and a bit more renovation. Previous owner put a raw plank under the seat cushion, which makes the sofa really uncomfortable to sit at the moment. I don’t know if I’m up to refurbishing the sofa, but the golden beige covers are quite dirty and worn. And it’s a bit dull for jugendstill furniture, which probably had quite colourfull fabric. This sofa is the first furniture I bought for this house.

Oh behold those embroideries, can there even be anything more perfect!