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Interior designers argue you have to have antiques. This could just be a sales technique but if you think about it, everything you purchase is.
Really don’t want to purchase 2nd hand again.
Had to have 2nd hand, hand-me-downs when we were little. I had handmade clothes and my sister had hand-me-downs.
I had to have my cousin’s 2nd hand wardrobe, she even made me peel her rubbish stickers off it. Must admit it looked better without them on. She was very spoiled and looked like the girl in the secret garden ‘the film’.
Suppose I should be grateful I had a wardrobe, even though it was awful.
Later on in life, I discovered if you have never had anything you don’t respect your possessions or look after them, this carries through to when you finally get good possessions.
Think it is a lifetime habit of hating horrible surroundings, that drew me into doing a design course.
I didn’t have any respect towards the upper-class people on my degree course who were all spoilt rotten with sports cars, ballroom dresses, and so forth. Weirdly one of them said she wished she was like me and could go to rock gigs etc., now I have learnt to manage my behavior have no interest in rock music, etc., and listen mainly to new age music.
Since my wild out-of-control teenage days, I have calmed down a lot and have learned how to respect my possessions. I realized I’d not been a good teenager and could have made friends with the upper-class people if I hadn’t had this inner pain. They were quite obnoxious and out of control also but in a different way to me.
Because of this hatred for other people’s cast-offs, don’t want 2nd hand clothes or furniture.
Used to read interior design magazines whilst on my art course, we were just supposed to look at the pictures, but I enjoyed reading the articles too.
Have to be honest and say I support new interior design products as I support good young fashion designers, (better than what I was). Someone needs to support them or how else do they get on? They will also produce what will become the antiques of the future.
Their problem at the moment is they are being blocked by artisan art.
Haven’t a problem with artisan, just don’t like it myself.
Artisans possibly want world dominance which is an unrealistic, unfair, and unbalanced expectation.
So will purchase new interior design when it comes back, it will have to come back by popular demand; not everyone likes artisan; some people prefer aesthetics. Artisan opposes aesthetics.
Architectural salvage
If I’m expected to purchase antiques for some reason?
Would be happy to purchase architectural salvage for the garden.
Quite like old statues and so forth for garden design.
Love new state-of-the-art gardens, but I like antique Italian gardens too.
A stately home near where I live just knocked down an antique garden that I loved, not sure why. It held a lot of childhood memories for me so quite sad about it. Suppose they got planning and little people’s views don’t really count.
As they can’t enforce the statutory dog laws of keeping wild dogs on leashes in certain public spaces, probably won’t be going there again anyway. Only went there for the secret garden.
Building my own antique Italian Garden
Once saw one of these in an interior magazine and thought to myself one day I would like one of these. It is a forgotten dream.
The one that got knocked down at the badly managed stately home was possibly Italian-inspired.
This would tie the two ideas together, I could recreate the pond and garden, that attracted finches. And build my dream garden. Think it was an ancient tree that attracted the finches.
If I’m expected to buy antiques, I’m in the market for Italian-style statues, anything in the style of an Italian garden and 18th-century garden antiques.
New garden statues of this style look plastic in my humble opinion, so would prefer antiques outside, either that or I would use an architect. You can sometimes find good ones, but will go with antiques if I have to.
Like the modern stuff at Garden centers for modern gardens, but more expensive ranges than the converted one below, they obviously didn’t spend much and did it on a cheap budget.
‘our local secret garden’ possibly made into a wedding venue.
(If they are knocking this stone pillar structure down I would put in a bid for this, would have bid for the garden if I’d known what they were doing, suppose they either have it at their house or have thrown it to the scrap heap – sacrilege)
click the link above for the free 1993 film by Francis Ford Coppola
Wish I’d photographed it now, someone has done a biased botch job of it to justify knocking it down, so all the Google images don’t do it justice. It looked like the one in the film before and was oblong. The sky background is so false like the plastic-looking pond.
The bland new garden
(could have salvaged the antique pond maybe, if we had known it was being demolished),
Not to be rude, but whoever did this might actually think it is better than the antique one. Read They got lottery money to do this when the original one was better? That money could have been allocated to something more needy, like our high street for instance, probably yours too.
It has replaced:
18th-century greenhouses that housed pineapples
an 18th-century Italian-style pond
18th-century pear trees
They grew on the wall like this.
(Not sure why it is on ebay?
A gardener working voluntarily brought the pear trees back to life. Maybe it wasn’t as popular as weddings, he must be really shocked?
Was great if you have a creative imagination or like gardening. Not sure why they couldn’t have left the garden and had weddings too?)
an architrave with flowers
a vegetable garden for the stately home,
guess the little tea room has gone as well.
Feel sorry for the volunteers, someone has just trashed all their hard work.
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Not sure how they got this past planning?
I’m still in shock.
I’m not bitter, I am emotionless, and speechless, like the other people meandering around what used to be a friendly happy Sunday day out place, loved that garden as it held precious magical childhood memories for me. Just about all the green belt land I loved as a child has been bricked over with housing and industrial estates now. Think a lot of people don’t like this, talked to people on Twitter about it, (before it went rubbish and you couldn’t talk honestly with people), and some people even protested against a meadow being knocked down by squatting in the trees, think this idea was from America. It didn’t work, it is just a housing estate, rubbish gym and not a very good supermarket now. Apparently, some of the trees have come back though. Shame the whole meadow doesn’t come back.
Think probably a lot of people’s secret garden memories will have been destroyed by the stately home garden being knocked down.
If anyone is bitter, it is whoever is responsible for the destruction. Maybe their ancestors were servants to the lords and ladies who lived there, destroying the garden may be their idea of vengeful revenge?
No one who goes there were lords or ladies though, so all they have done is upset other libertarians of the revolution of slavery/servants both Afro/Caribbean and white.
Hopefully, someone might restore some touristy places back to pre covid 19 standards. Realize I may be the only one that cares, think I would rather stay me though, instead of reacting like these people want you to. (Have a contribution to this movement for Sunday day out shop).
The Secret Garden
Film synopsis
This 1993 film is based on the classic fairy tale “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett,
Film critic Roger Ebert said this of the 1993 version of “The Secret Garden”:
Like all great stories for children, The Secret Garden contains powerful truths just beneath the surface. There is always a level at which the story is telling children about more than just events; it is telling them about the nature of life. That was the feeling I had when I read Frances Hodgson Burnett’s book many years ago, and it is a feeling that comes back powerfully while watching Agnieszka Holland’s new film.
Some “children’s films” are only for children. Some can be watched by the whole family. Others are so good they seem hardly intended for children at all, and “The Secret Garden” falls in that category. It is a work of beauty, poetry, and deep mystery, and watching it is like entering for a time into a closed world where one’s destiny may be discovered.
The film tells the story, familiar to generations, of a young girl orphaned in India in the early years of this century, and sent home to England to live on the vast estate of an uncle. Misselthwaite Manor is a gloomy and forbidding pile in Yorkshire – a construction of stone, wood, metal, secrets, and ancient wounds. The heroine, whose name is Mary Lennox (Kate Maberly), arrives from her long sea journey to be met with a sniff and a stern look from Mrs. Medlock (Maggie Smith), who manages the place in the absence of the uncle, Lord Archibald Craven (John Lynch). Mary quickly gathers that this uncle is almost always absent, traveling to far places in an attempt to forget the heartbreaking death of his young bride some years earlier.
There is little for Mary to do in the mansion but explore, and soon she finds secret passageways and even the bedroom of her late aunt – and in the bedroom, a key to a secret garden. She makes friends with a boy named Dickon (Andrew Knott), whose sister is a maid at Misselthwaite, and together they play in the garden, and he whispers the manor’s great secret: The aunt died in childbirth, but her son, now 9 or 10 years old, still lives in the manor, confined to his bed, unable to walk.
Mary goes exploring and finds the little boy, named Colin (Heydon Prowse). He has lived a life of great sadness, confined to his room, able to see only the sky from the windows visible from his bed. Mary determines he must see his mother’s secret garden, and she and Dickon wheel him there in an invalid’s chair, stealing him out of the house under the very nose of Mrs. Medlock.
All of this could be told in a simple and insipid story, I am sure, with cute kids sneaking around the corridors. But Holland is alert to the buried meanings of her story, and she has encouraged her actors to act their age – to be smart, resourceful, and articulate.
By the end of the film I was surprised by how much I was moved; how much I had come to care about the lonely little boy, the orphaned girl, and the garden that a dead woman had prepared for them.
film review
Love this film. Had the book as a child. Think it has to be a lot of children’s favorite film, probably connected to other stately gardens around Britain.
It goes back to a time when the world was very different.
We can see it as being equal to lord and ladies, but in those days we might not of had the same equality.
This book lets us see it through the eyes of the little girl.
Quite magical.
Guess we can recreate this magic in our lives even if the world outside we knew and loved doesn’t exist anymore.
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