English Canalware Bread Bin

Color.  I like my antiques and vintage to have COLOR.

So many magazines are showing that color is not dead--and encouraging vintage and antiques buyers not to be afraid of it.

For so long the trend has been browns creams whites whites and more tan and more white.

We love color.  Dear Husbola and I have chosen to paint our walls very neutral--and let our "stuff" add the color and the pop.  I don't feel so boring when we paint a wall with the fabulously named colors that you can get nowadays.  No more "white"  Now it is "Old Prairie"  Thank you Benjamin Moore.

This crusty blue bit is vintage canalware.  In England--on the canals--there are flat bottomed long houseboats--and many people live on them year round.  They can be really dolled up with lights and decorations--and a folk art way of painting metal ware like coffee pots and water pitcher and bread bins.  Beware--it is now being reproduced.  Once you have held an old piece and a chinese made piece of dreck--you will always know the difference.  Even with your eyes closed.