Featured Ideas on this Dish Strainer (?)

Good morning All and I wish you all a very Happy, Healthy Thanksgiving!
I found this outside a home/bed and breakfast that is up for sale in a nearby town. It was outside for weeks with other odds and ends. I waited, knocked and no one showed up so I left 5.00 in their door. It appears to be a dish drainer. The side compartments come off but I have never seen one like it before. I'm sure it's not very old but it is the coolest dish drainer I've ever seen. There's a few things I can think of to use it for. Can anyone give me some clue on it's history? Suggestions for use are very welcome. Too pretty to use as a dish drainer I think! Thankyou so much!

 

Are you sure it's not a planter? Inspired by Victorian wirework?

Debora

 

No, I'm not sure what it is. My daughter-in-law also thought maybe a planter.

 

Were things being offered for sale or give away?

 

it was obviously abandoned when it lay around "outside for weeks with other odds and ends.".

 

That's a planter.

 

It was an extremely uncomfortable situation for me. I noticed the items were all wet and I know they had been out for several weeks. I left money in the door anyway.

 

Do you know why the side boxes are removable?

 

I think you did the right thing. If they cared or wanted it it wouldnt have sat outside for so long. I can see planter,but I could also see it as a dish drainer ! A very cool one.

 

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Doubt there's much interest in ethics and legalities...

 

there are always other points of view....colored by one's experience.

anything here.....almost..... that's left by the curb....is fair game...
what's sitting next to my house......is not !

 

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A planter in my opinion, not a dish drain.

 

It's easier to plant them up if they're in parts sometimes, that's quite a big thing. It would look rather fine with bulbs in the main part, something trailing on the ends. Line it with moss or coir matting.

 

(There is some)

 

This is definitely a dish drainer, ( a photo with plates would be fun ) sold approx 20 years ago ( in France anyway )
as pseudo vinage etc, the end complartments are for cutlery and sponges etc

totally unpractical even if pretty,

 

Wirework is fun, but not for keeping earth "in"

 

Nothing wrong with wirework for a planter as long as you use a liner.

 

Yup, coir or moss.

 

I was talking about Cabrinas' which has "pockets" and has feet !

https://www.retrodeco.fr/index.php?main_page=popup_image&pID=1036