After almost a year of sourcing and seeking, buying and storing, our fresh shipment of vintage Swedish design gold has landed in Melbourne. Somehow our man on the ground in Scandinavia managed to get hold of all the things we 'needed', and (even more impressively) got it all to fit into a shipping container. Burly Swedish truck-driver Magnus is pictured below doing his bit to get it all away ...
Wow ... that drab looking steel box has enough in it to keep us occupied on polishing and restoring though most of Summer, we think. And if that's not enough fun, we'll have a container to renovate too.
Of course, what's a big furniture collection without a home? So we chose the wettest August/September on record to get a big workshop shed built up at the farm ...
Ahem ...
There have been a few delays, holdups, and the like (we've seen enough episodes of Grand Designs to know that even the most basic build is guaranteed to take longer and cost more than you imagine). After a 4 month process it seems that the 'last-minute' is when things happen.
So, according to promises from one and all, our shed should be finished on Monday afternoon ... oh, and the container is being delivered Tuesday morning. Like the Grand Final last weekend, the smart money is on a draw ... just no re-match please.
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