Welcome to my Peculiar Hovel! This is where I live, well, the living room area at least. It’s a very small 2 bedroom apartment in a very large overpriced city (though the photos make it looker darker and smaller than it is). I have a small home office but our clothing is made just outside of the city in a large studio there, so not much actual sewing happens here. I distribute my time between both my home office and the studio. If you’re calling to place and order or speaking to me on livechat this is probably where that’s happening! 🙂

I am not a photographer, I make no promises about my blurry dark photos. Hehe.

This is my living room. “Hello black Easter Bunny lamp!”. Ignore the chips on the table, I took these shots before a party I had recently. The chandelier is actually coated in black velvet (perfectly tacky)!

The cabinets on the wall are actually antique medicine cabinets I found on the side of the road at 2am once. Inside of them are an array of porcelain doll heads from the 18th century and a mannequin hand. That’s a Victorian mourning cap between them on the wall.

On the top of the bookshelves (which my dad made, thanks dad!) are framed Victorian to 1930s death notices and funeral invitations. Printed Victorian mourning cards were beautiful things with haunting poetry and biblical quotations on them. I collect Victorian mourning ephemera and am kind of a nerd that way. 😛

On the wall in my living room is this bilingual Ouija board! OUI, NON! I guess that helps if you are communicating with ghosts along the Quebec border? *Insert bad poutine joke*

Yes, my television has antlers. Doesn’t yours?

So, thus concludes the first leg of the Taeden’s Peculiar Hovel tour. Any questions? 😛

-T