Trunks aren’t just places to keep things. They’re keepers of journeys. Before suitcases rolled through airports, trunks were the way people travelled. Built solid, heavy duty, sometimes decorated with brass corners or painted lettering. The funny thing is, even though this storage trunk - click through the next article - looks distressed, it works in a modern home. Neutral rooms actually make the colours pop. The scratches and paint chips add contrast you can’t buy in a shop.

I can’t forget when the circus came to town once a year. Posters glued to walls promised elephants, fire breathers, acrobats — and always clowns. Looking at the trunk feels like it was there backstage, stuffed with costumes and props, wooden storage trunk waiting for the show to begin. When I first saw the circus clown trunk, I froze for storage trunk a moment. The red-nosed clown staring upside down across the front felt like more than decoration. It felt like a memory of a lost world — a carnival gone by.