Another Souvenir for the Powder Room

Whilst Charlie and I were in an entrance tunnel to catch the underground in London an artist was selling some scenes of the city.

This 8″ by *’ painting was bought in a tunnel leading from the underground in London.

We purchased an 8-inch square painting of Big Ben ( which was covered with scaffolding the entire time we were there).

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That’s Big Ben covered in scaffolding.

Just like the Smith Island painting I strip framed I used a similar technique on the London painting even though the frame was narrower.

To make the frame appear to float black trim is offset toward the back.

I screwed in 2 eye hooks on the back and strung a hanging wire between them.

Our London art — Is that Charlie and Jo walking in the rain?

The painting is part of the travel collection in the newly papered powder room.

The travel collection in the powder room.

The wood tones seem to tie disparate items together.

Do you repeat techniques once you learn them?

Author: Jo

Welcome to The Glade, where the second generation of renovations has just begun and the mania about our home, music and other passions fill our days and nights. We’re Charlie and Jo in the music world; Mary Jo and Charles to family; and JoJo and Charlie to each other. We are renovating a midcentury house in a Victorian historic district where we want to live there the rest of our lives. It's a 1946 house located in Maryland. We were married in this house. Thus far (pre-blog) we refinished cabinets, added a window seat (still working on the cushion), rearranged a wall in the guest house due to sink/vanity replacement, planted a vegetable garden, and other quick and not-so-quick fixes. So this latest zeal for construction is the result of my having lived here since 1997 and feeling a need to ready the house for the next chapter and beyond.

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