A rundown bus shelter has been radically transformed — complete with hanging baskets, art, books and chandelier — after a local pub owner couldn't stand the "ugly and shabby" situation any longer.Molly Thompson, 27, has owned the 600-year-old Woolpack pub in Chilham, Kent, for several years.For some time, a rundown and disused bus shelter blighted the street right outside her pub — until she couldn't take it any longer.STOMACH BUGS SURGING AS DOCTORS SAY CERTAIN TRAVEL ESSENTIALS COULD SAVE YOUR TRIP Thompson secured council permission before raising the funds to turn the shelter from shabby to chic."I live here, I’ve got my dog Wallace, and every day I’d walk past that bus stop," Thompson of the United Kingdom told news agency SWNS.Molly Thompson is pictured with her mom Sharon and dog Wallace.For years, a rundown bus shelter blighted the street outside her pub — until she decided to take action.
(Molly Thompson/SWNS)"It took me a year since moving here, and I thought it was a derelict building, an ugly and shabby sort of thing.We had some crazy ideas at first, but we also want[ed] to keep an aesthetic for the village."We thought of a few ideas," she went on.
"We started fundraising at the Woolpack and asking people for donations, which we did a raffle for.We had to put in ourselves, of course, from the Woolpack — but a lot has been donated from the village," she said.TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZFor example, "we had an anonymous envelope delivered with £100," or about $134 U.S.
dollars. After getting the green light from the local parish council, Thompson, plus her mother and others, got to work renovating the shelter, SWNS reported. The converted bus shelter in Chilham, Kent, in the United Kingdom, is shown above.A previously "ugly" depot is now completely transformed.
(Molly Thompson/SWNS)Today, the outside of the shelter has been repainted and decorated with hanging baskets.Decorations such as a flower vase have been nai...