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    Jersey Ice Cream Co was founded in the summer of 2010. Two kids in love found an old embossing stamp at a flea market, dreamed up a design empire, and then set to work trying to create it. Today Tara Mangini and Percy Bright spend their time moving house to house, job to job, leaving beautiful homes in their wake. They believe in craftsmanship, timelessness, and leaving things better than they found them. They do not make ice cream, but will happily have some if you’re offering.

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March 22, 2013 by Percy Bright 2 Comments

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More than one person thought I’d lost it when I started cladding a bedroom wall with lath I’d saved after pulling down a dividing wall between my dining room and kitchen. But even before I’d finished, I knew I was in love. That was almost four years ago. (Yikes!) Ever since then I’ve found it impossible to pass a city dumpster without peering inside. Usually I’ll see nothing but rubbish. Every once in a while, though, I’ll come upon a few bundles of lath and maybe even some old tongue-and-groove flooring or joists or studs with stripes running down the side where plaster made it through the gaps in the lath. Pure history and possibility.

When you need to work some magic on a tight budget, it doesn’t get any better than free. Today we managed to whip together three wall hangings for around five dollars total. That includes the botany charts, from a set of thirty we scored at Brimfield last year for next to nothing. Oh, and it only took about five minutes.

First we cut the lath to length–four strips per chart, two on top and two on bottom–allowing for a slight overhang on either side. Then we stapled the tops and bottoms of each chart to the front strips of lath from behind, before lining up the back strips of lath and securing them to the front strips with 1/2″ screws, charts sandwiched in between. One hanger per chart and voila!

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Comments

  1. Justine says

    April 1, 2013 at 9:49 pm

    Save me some of those (if you have any left).

    Reply
    • Percy Bright says

      April 2, 2013 at 11:34 am

      Lath or botanical charts? Either way, you got it! We have plenty of both.

      Reply

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