25/06/2026
4 years ago when I built 101 House at the End, I didn’t buy a single piece of “themed décor.” The majority of what you see was handmade, found second-hand, or repurposed.
Here’s exactly what I used:
1. Vintage crockery — charity shops and car boot sales. Mismatched sets look more authentic than anything bought new, and cost under £2 a plate.
2. Handmade potion bottles — old wine bottles spray painted, aged with sandpaper, and labelled with printed parchment paper tea-stained to look old.
3. Handmade wand boxes — offcuts of wood stained dark, topped with vintage buttons from my old haberdashery job I used to have many years ago.
4. Floating candles with a wand remote — battery pillar candles hung on fishing wire from the ceiling.
5. Handmade wax sealed envelopes — tea stained paper, folded and sealed with a wax stamp. Took three evenings to make all of these and i loved every moment making them.
6. Vintage second-hand artwork — every painting came from a charity shop or vintage shop. I love the idea that these old pieces get another chance at life.
7. Gold snake and melting candle effect — the snake is actually a rubber toy snake that I painted and glued onto the sink. The “melting wax” on the bath is textured metal paint.
8. Tissue paper instead of wallpaper — layered tissue paper with PVA glue. This tissue paper was from an old job in All Saints when I was a teenager and when they had a rebrand, i kept a huge roll of it, having no idea it would end up here many years later.
🤍 which thrifty find is your favourite?
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