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Kirstie Allsopps homemade home - OS opinions?
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katmad99
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Hi All,
I watched the new TV show Kirstie Allsopps homemade home last night on c4 and couldn't help but wonder what the OS'ers might make of it!
Seemed to have some interesting ideas about getting things cheaply (like 'skipping') and then doing them up yourself to make them nice again, and haggling, which seems good sense. I also liked the fact that it was very much in support of local traders.
However, cushion making and glass blowing....OS or extravagance (given the costs)??? i couldn't decide!
Anyone else see it and have an opinion or two? from an OS perspective was it good advice or not???
Kat
I watched the new TV show Kirstie Allsopps homemade home last night on c4 and couldn't help but wonder what the OS'ers might make of it!
Seemed to have some interesting ideas about getting things cheaply (like 'skipping') and then doing them up yourself to make them nice again, and haggling, which seems good sense. I also liked the fact that it was very much in support of local traders.
However, cushion making and glass blowing....OS or extravagance (given the costs)??? i couldn't decide!
Anyone else see it and have an opinion or two? from an OS perspective was it good advice or not???
Kat
Moneysavinghopeful :rotfl:
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Oh I missed that! Sounds really good, will have to look on OD to see if I can catch it0
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Hi All,
I watched the new TV show Kirstie Allsopps homemade home last night on c4 and couldn't help but wonder what the OS'ers might make of it!
Seemed to have some interesting ideas about getting things cheaply (like 'skipping') and then doing them up yourself to make them nice again, and haggling, which seems good sense. I also liked the fact that it was very much in support of local traders.
However, cushion making and glass blowing....OS or extravagance (given the costs)??? i couldn't decide!
Anyone else see it and have an opinion or two? from an OS perspective was it good advice or not???
Kat
I thought in general it didn't say anything very much that wasn't common sence... more of a craft taster show, but without any real depth in any of the crafts.
Glass blowing is a bit of an extravagance, but learning to sow is both an income and very very old school money saving. (not that I'd be seen dead doing it, not macho, not macho at all ) “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
I was really disappointed. So much wasn't homemade but bought even if it was from craftsmen - how many of us can afford that?
The house is now being let out and yet she gave the impression that she was doing it up for her family home.
I'm sure most of us could teach her and the design team a lot about doing a home up OS styleWe don't need to do it perfectly - good enough is exactly that GOOD ENOUGH.0 -
I found it a bit slow. She could have covered more things in that space of time.Whether we win or lose,that we played at all was a winning decision.
2011 wins £12,2922012 wins ...Thank you to all who post on here!!!! :A0 -
I liked the programme but how many of us can walk into a glass blowing place and blow our own tumblers? And she bought some others to go with it. It is great to support local businesses but I don't think I could afford hand blown tumblers and to think that my DDs would break them :eek:
Ofcourse making your own cushions and curtains is great, I liked the Kat Kidston designs as well, mixing colours. But Kirstie's mum and the friend were both interior designers so I think she had some help putting it all together. I was jealous of the large kitchen though, I think my whole downstairs is not even that size!
There was a thread on OS a while back about restoring dressers, little tables etc, some really good ideas for buying stuff cheap and painting them. I think it was called something on the lines of shabby chique, I will try and find it.
I liked the chairs she bought on the market as well. I was quite disappointed as well, I agree she could have covered a whole lot more and it was all a bit staged, I don't think she did anything herself really. The woman made the other cushions.0 -
I would have found it useful if they had given more info on things like the kind of sewing machine to get or different design ideas for the things she was making. For example if she had shown how the mirror could have been upgraded. There was a lot more scope for useful and practical information and I was a bit disappointed that it was so cash led.Taking responsibility one penny at a time!0
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I didn't know she's let the house now - tho i was wondering if she was ever actually going to live there...
Most of you seem to share the same disappointment as I did - that a lot of it was not homemade and a lot was expensively done. I agree it was also quite slow too.
As someone who's just got a new flat, I would have enjoyed more decorating tips - nice touches etc. and more about restoring (she got the mirror out of the skip but didnt get to see how she restored it)
the shabby chic thread sounds good, mumoftwo.
I really liked that it was a bit different though, with ideas that didn't involve just buying off-the-shelf flatpack furniture and actually making your space your own and unique.Moneysavinghopeful :rotfl:0 -
This might come in useful. It's a bit dated in terms of materials/style, but some of the concepts and techniques are still useful
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Paupers-Homemaking-Book-Penguin-Handbooks/dp/01404622440 -
Hopefully this will work . This is the link for the Shabby chic thread. Be aware its long!
You have beat me to it, just found it and a lot of the posters on that thread joined this one:
http://shabbychiccafe.com/0
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