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Treasures in the basement

October 2, 2009 by Budour

My grandparent’s basement storage room was always an adventurous place when we were small (and still is). So when my cousin suggested we scavenge the storage room last Monday, I took my camera in one hand and a hand sanitizer in another and started snapping away! And since I haven’t been inside for quite a while, it was so much fun looking at all the old furniture, chinaware, my mother’s closet, old books and some friendly creatures…

One upon a time, the storage was at least 3 times bigger than what it is now and had much more interesting items but most of it was either given away or sold.

Also, my apologies in advance for the misaligned images, I couldn’t fix them on wordpress!

knobs for the fan

old Pepsi cola cooler

detail of the pepsi cola cooler

old cabinet (i think they look fabulous)

my mother's childhood closet

I'm in love with the blue vase (thinking of stealing it)

sewing machine with its table (thinking of stealing the table)

sewing machine revealed

don't know how they found this fabulous jacket. It used to be my grandmother's. My cousin of course snatched it!

loved it, stole it! And now it's carrying beautiful flowers in our living room

old quality street chocolate box

cute, little glasses

I have no idea how old this is!

searching..

according to my mother, the clear class thing was part of a blender machine

according to my mother, the clear glass thing on the left was part of a blender machine, I still don't get how that is possible

huuuuge pot!

1987

one of my grandmother's bags found

another bag found

my cousin finding his father's school book

my cousin looking through his father's school book

some kind of cooler?

one side of the storage room

I hope you enjoyed this post!

I know I know! I promised I would post the lasagne and pancakes recipe but I just didn’t have the time to do it. I won’t promise anything but I will try my best to post them this weekend.

Posted in Experiments | Tagged basement, cabinets, chinaware, storage, treasures, vintage | 12 Comments

12 Responses

on October 2, 2009 at 12:36 am | Reply Anwaar

the jacket is sooooo A-LA-MODE!!!
- on October 2, 2009 at 1:15 am | Reply Budour
  
  I know! Isn’t it?
  Dalal was the lucky cousin!
on October 2, 2009 at 12:52 am | Reply Deema

I love it! I think I should do that! it is a good “internal?” documentary!
- on October 2, 2009 at 1:14 am | Reply Budour
  
  Thanks! What do you meanby internal here?
on October 2, 2009 at 1:44 am | Reply Fatmah

Inspirational! That’s what I’m doing next weekend
- on October 2, 2009 at 9:45 am | Reply Budour
  
  You should it’s so much fun!
on October 2, 2009 at 2:39 pm | Reply Sara Å

Hi! Loved this post! And also- like your blog header Hadn’t seen it was from the Saluhall we went to! Love, S
- on October 2, 2009 at 3:22 pm | Reply Budour
  
  Glad you liked it! Oh yes salluhal! I am planning on doing a post on that! You know I’m a little bummed I didn’t take enough pictures there.
on October 27, 2009 at 7:59 pm | Reply mentabolism

cooolll!!! thats some pretty old stuff…!
- on October 27, 2009 at 10:33 pm | Reply Budour
  
  Yup! And there was a lot more stuff!
on November 8, 2009 at 10:00 pm | Reply Alya

Budour, this place is a treasure mine! Definitely steal the turqouise/goldish vase. I would in a second!

Plus I love how your fingers are all dusty! hahaha..
on November 8, 2009 at 11:00 pm | Reply Budour

Hi Alya! Thanks for reminding me! I need to go get the vase!!

It’s dusty because that place is a dust bin! and home of some unfriendly creatures…