what our bedroom use to be...
the story goes like this...
Our master bedroom was originally a Workers Hut from the Upper Ferntree Gully Depot. It was plonked on the top of our block many years ago, onto a few train sleepers which acted as the foundation, and was joined up with 3 other rooms. When we were renovating, after we'd pulled the plasterboard down, we found an old, old, old train timetable stapled onto the original boards. So we thought, as a nod to this touch of history, we would have a tram/train banner made up listing a big selection of the stations on this timetable, some which no longer exist on the main line. My hubby is a bit of a history buff when it comes to trains and the hills, so he is just loving this up on the wall!
Remembering...
The start of us....
It kinda goes like this...
We started dating over 14 years ago, the official date we figured out to be the 23d May 1998, a weekend that had me coming over to Melbourne to hang out with Roh, his brother and wife (a friend of mine from S.A). Well, Roh and I just clicked and we had a fabulous weekend. At the end of it, Roh gave me this poster, Jeff Buckley being a mutual obsession of ours at the time, and me accepting it as the romantic gesture it was, took it home and had it mounted and hung on my wall. Well, we've carried it around all this time, and finally it now has a new home in our stairwell.
And every time I look at it, it makes me smile (and sometimes even feel a little gooey inside).
I'm looking forward to filling the stairwell with more pieces of our history, and I love having stories to share.
What do you have on your walls that make you smile?
xxx
LOVED reading these stories Kelly. Such special pieces to have in your home, no wonder they make you happy.
ReplyDeletei wish there was some neat history to our house too. well, there is the personal history of the ones who lived here previous to us, but it doesn't seem as exciting as your train depot story. but many of our friends here knew those that built the house and one day we'll meet them ourselves and tell them how much we enjoyed their little house in the woods.
ReplyDeletewhat makes me smile the most is the self-timer shot of us at our honey moon. and also the picture frame that used to be empty and my dad stuck a note saying "bis bald" ("see you soon") into it before he left here a few years ago.