"In the room I'm working in, there's a feather-filled shrine to various dead hens, two candles in the shape of Saint Lucy's eyes, a stuffed Australian magpie, a wig, three pewter goats and a French revolutionary cockade made from a jam pot lid (an illustrative selection; there's much more). Other people are similarly well stocked with weirdness: my father has a lifesize wooden sheep."
"And that's the stuff we're aware of the real weirdness comes not from decorative choices, but incidental oddities we no longer notice. No, we don't have a bathroom door, for example (I experienced this). Oh yes, you need to use that chopstick to turn the extractor fan on. Watch out for the cat's special bucket. Don't sit there, it's where we keep my auntie's ashes, so she can see the TV."
Lily Walters encourages making homes personal and slightly unhinged with whimsical, eccentric items like an alligator toilet flush, stained-glass traffic cone or snail-adorned table. Many homes already host genuinely strange, sometimes disturbing collections and incidental oddities rather than cultivated eccentricity. Examples include a feather-filled shrine to dead hens, Saint Lucy eye candles, a stuffed magpie, pewter goats, a French revolutionary cockade, a lifesize wooden sheep, a 3D-printed tentacle, a boxed dead bumblebee and a toaster-history poster. Mundane domestic quirks can be more revealing: missing bathroom doors, improvised fan switches, designated cat buckets and a shelf for an auntie's ashes. Online communities catalog further extreme finds.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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