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A woman has decorated her entire house in a 1940s style for just £3k - and says she loves it despite trolls telling her it's “disgusting”.
Josephina Finch, 36, has loved that era of décor since watching the TV show Royle Family as a child and has taken inspiration from the home of her grandmother, Patricia Minshull, 87.
Josephina has spent the last two years transforming her two-bed home with her partner, Chrissy Harrison, 35, a carpenter and builder - who loves their velvet sofas, floral and doily curtains and mahogany furniture.
She finds everything second hand – searching charity shops, car boot sales and Facebook marketplace and eBay for floral wallpaper, trinkets and old furniture.
The mum-of-three estimates she has only spent £2 to 3k on the house and says it is her “happy place” despite strangers telling her it is “disgusting”.
A woman has decorated her entire house in a 1940s style for just £3k - and says she loves it despite trolls telling her it's “disgusting”.
Josephina Finch, 36, has loved that era of décor since watching the TV show Royle Family as a child and has taken inspiration from the home of her grandmother, Patricia Minshull, 87.
Josephina has spent the last two years transforming her two-bed home with her partner, Chrissy Harrison, 35, a carpenter and builder - who loves their velvet sofas, floral and doily curtains and mahogany furniture.
She finds everything second hand – searching charity shops, car boot sales and Facebook marketplace and eBay for floral wallpaper, trinkets and old furniture.
The mum-of-three estimates she has only spent £2 to 3k on the house and says it is her “happy place” despite strangers telling her it is “disgusting”.
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00:00 I really like old worldy sort of things.
00:03 I like to feel like I'm living back in time a little bit.
00:06 And I don't like to go for like the traditional contemporary looking things.
00:09 I like to have things that have got like a story behind it.
00:12 A little bit like 1940s.
00:15 So I like a bit more of a cozy home, like you've fallen down a rabbit hole.
00:29 A lot of it I find at like vintage fairs, my nan's old stuff that I've taken here.
00:35 Charity shops, old furniture shops and things like that.
00:40 I don't really find anything specifically anywhere.
00:43 I just find things and if I like it, then I'll buy it.
00:45 But I don't ever buy anything brand new.
00:47 I always buy things that have
00:49 already had like been lived in and already have a bit of a life already.
00:54 So everything's been in the kitchen has been made out of old scaffold boards
00:58 that he's reclaimed, sanded down and then built them into like a bespoke kitchen.
01:03 I really like the idea of like a snow white sort of kitchen,
01:06 like all wooden little hearts carved out.
01:08 So I said to my partner that I really like that look and he made it happen for me.
01:13 So I'm quite lucky that he can be really hands on.
01:16 And he's so clever at things like that.
01:18 The next room I want to do is my bathroom.
01:20 And I actually want one of them old like, you know, like the cast,
01:24 like the tin baths.
01:27 I want one of them baths like up on like a little platform
01:30 and I want to have some like brickwork behind it.
01:32 So that's my next project.
01:34 I really want to do it.
01:35 But obviously time and things like that, family, it's always quite difficult.
01:38 But I'll be looking through some farm somewhere
01:41 for like an old tin bath that's just been disposed of.
01:44 But that will definitely be my next thing.
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