The Old House at Gardening Saturday 2009

The Old House will be at the Friends of the Assiniboine Park Conservatory Gardening Saturday again this year.

On Saturday, May 9th, the Friends will host the 2nd Annual Gardening Saturday at the Canadian Mennonite University, 500 Shaftesbury Blvd. (just down the street from the Conservatory) 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. With over 20 gardening workshops, and 55 vendor displays.

The Old House will be one of the vendor displays!

See you there.

For more information about the Friends of Assiniboine Park Gardening Weekend head to their website...its a full weekend long event with a "Pots and What Nots" Party on Friday and A Mother's Day Plant sale on Sunday. If you love to garden, you don't want to miss it!

Hoppy Easter

Old House Revival Company - Easter Weekend Hours

Closed Good Friday
Open Saturday 11:30 to 5
Closed Easter Sunday

Regular Hours resume on Monday April 13th

Monday - Saturday: 11:30 to 5:00
Sunday: Noon to 5

Enjoy the sunshine everyone.

Spring Cleaning

Did you know we have a great selection of Antique Tin Tile ...

all neatly stored and easy to look through? Don't forget to slip on the pair of work gloves we keep handy to prevent to your hands from getting scraped up.

Not only that...now our collection of door headers has been magically reorganized in the night!

It is now easy to flip through our selection and to see all the beautiful detail. (Thanks Mo.)

Look at these lovely Arts and Crafts era headers.

The store is taking on a fresh new spring look as our Antique Mall vendors bring in more and more seasonal items.

Have you picked out your Easter Bonnet yet?

Preview of Coming Attractions

We're so excited about changes we've been making in our hardware section --we just had to share...even though we're still in the process of organizing everything.

We love our jumbled piles of hardware...but we also like it when that little bit of something you really need is easy to find.



We've opened up that area of the store...to take better advantage of the natural and artificial light in that space...it will now be easier to see all those wonderful mortise locks, plates, and knobs we have.

Slowly but surely we've been working on sorting and labeling all our hardware treasure.

Pretty neat huh?

We are also planning on creating a beautiful bathroom feature area...we have some great bath fixtures...like sparkly glass towel rods and spiffy pedestal sinks that need to be shown off!

Check out our work in progress.

Spring Inspiration

A few days ago, as I walked to work
...the birds were singing
...the sun was shinining
...and I got to thinking about my yard and garden.




If you are in the same Spring time frame of mind, look to The Old House for inspiration.

When I got to work I started seeing all kinds of possibilities around the shop that would make great planters. Everything from enamel dishware, stoneware, crocks, galvanized tubs, pails, fireplace inserts, porcelain sinks and wood crates would look fantastic with cheerful flowers blooming out of them.

Breathe in the warmer air. Flowers will bloom from all kinds of interesting places....in a few months you can see them for real and not just in your imagination.

Melting down and mellowing out,

Jodie

Hardware in Bulk

Recent Arrival - Hardware in bulk!

Eight matching sets of plates and knobs - egg and dart pattern.

Coffee cans and Soup pails full of hardware.

Hardware comes to us in all sorts of conditions and in all sorts of containers. We recently aquired one coffee can and one soup pail full of "younger hardware" -- Amerock pulls.

New In the Antique Mall

Our Antique Mall is an ever changing kaleidisope of "Recent Arrivals"

All that glitters.


Our newest vendor has a case full of sparkly finds.

When did that get here? New spot. New look.

Its amazing how the same shelf looks completely different when its moved to a different spot. This darling little shelf caught my eye... and a beautiful ray of sunshine as one of our Antique Mall vendors was in the process of re-arranged her space.

Try this trick at home...and then come see us to add to your new look!


Make your own "new arrival" in our Antique Mall

Dick Turnbull can create a custom Stained Glass window just for you.

Crowning glory.




Do you have a special lamp that deserves just the right shade?

Our vendor, Antiquity and Charm makes custom lampshades. Visit the Old House to see her beautifully detailed work. For information: antiquityandcharm@shaw.ca