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Daydream fund challenge part 4
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sorry about the hahahahaha but I blame the local plonk
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Marrakesh? You lucky,lucky pup.
Goodness you will feel cold now you are back.
Was it wonderful? How I wish I was in Marrakesh.....0 -
Alfie, so lovely to have you back safely - and by the sound of it, completely revitalised by your trip
Sounds as though you had a wonderful time.....it's somewhere me and DS (although DH is not as keen) have always wanted to visit and hopefully will finally get to do so before too long, although at the moment holidays are not too high on our spending list, priority-wise.
Egypt was another place on my wish list and when we finally got there in 2005 I wasn't disappointed....would love to go back there too
LIR, I agree with Choille that there are some amazing limewash colours.....a guy on another forum I post on had his grade 2 Georgian house (ashlar blocks) done in a wonderful coppery colour that showed subtle variations resembling natural stone
I'd love to do something similar here, but really need to be going for a more Arts & Crafts appropriate shade..... Mortgage-free for fourteen years!
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lostinrates wrote: »It's incredible when you think the colours things might have been painted once. Things like cathedrals in gaudy brightest colours available.
We have an odd sense of appropriate IMO. Paint is easily redone, its not like structure or old building materials. Right type of paint might be more important.....
That said...there was a house with royal purple boards....cannot think of the name, the boards behind gutters, s....., anyway, I wanted to punch the people that painted that. Not least though, because it clashed so badly with their red clay tiles on the exterior and roof.
A house in a village near by has gone quite a bold Tuscan sort of orangey yellow and I have to admit I'm feeling quite inspired. Theirs is timbered, and it looks warm and snug against the natural coloured timber. I know we want yellow....I just cannot decide which. Not lemon, something warmer, bolder, but not the colour of mustard, custard or wet sand on a dull day. Something sort of honey ish sounds nice but looks insipid when I try, so it has to be golder, yellower...more like pollen.
My idea of hell is living somewhere with a restricted colour for front door etc. I was told black for guttering etc, and put in request for grey.....partly because that's what I wanted, but also I think because I felt .......strangled.
stupid I know.
The original colour of our early 1900s roughcast is/was grey, so I guess there's a chance the local authority might want us to replicate that. In some parts of the building this is still original and had never been painted over., whereas some has been repaired/replaced and the colour is not quite the same, hence it looking dirty/patchy. I actually quite like the original shade - although grey/greige isn't usually a colour I'd choose - as it does reflect the period.....
I think we'll most likely go with a cream - although this sounds rather unexciting - but an historic shade not a boring *magnolia* type
Within our conservation area there are a few houses of townscape merit (ours being one) and these are mostly white/offwhite, which I want to avoid at all costs!
Fortunately our front door is not visible by passersby - we have an old gate built into the house wall that is our entrance from the lane - and we can paint that elevation (and therefore the majority of our windows and doors) any colour we like
If you can find the right yellow that will look lovely LIR!Mortgage-free for fourteen years!
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But you were home when you posted itsorry about the hahahahaha but I blame the local plonk he he I'm glad you had a good time. Sounds fab.
FK I would always pick little green over FB paint. It goes on like a dream. I painted my bedroom French grey by little green recently. It's a stunning colour, subtle but bold enough, calming, cooling but in no way on the cool side of a grey. So hard to describe it. But I am utterly in love with it! If I could post pics I would put one up. I must sort photobucket out.0 -
Our bathroom is two shades of little greene French grey ( and white) the ceiling is grey and the tiles are 'textured' so the whole room looks like a play of light.
I really love some of the little greene colours. But.....they still don't get quite that soft depth of fandb. On the other hand, we found for exterior metal work ( that grey again) bog standard metal paint gave far better finish than fandb, At a fraction of the price and exactly the same shade.:)
My 'kitchen' is a little greene colour and its perfect colour wise, absolutely perfect. I'm still thinking I might paint the chimney breast too, but I have time to do that in the future and have it make a big freshening up difference.0 -
phoebe1989seb wrote: »
First of the giant oriental poppies opened this morning too.....lovely
{{{Hugs}}} Choille, do hope your situation - weather and otherwise - improves very soon x
Same for us on the poppies 'Beauty of Livermere' here.
Yes, I hope it all begins to improve for you now, choille. It's true, we have been dry down south, while you folks up north have had atrocious weather.
There must be somewhere in the middle that had 'normal.'
Mr Rod is due any minute....Still so much plastering to do!0 -
Alfie, you look very chilled-out in the pic!:D;):cool:
Glad you had a great time, despite the hotel being a bit Fawlty Towers....or maybe partly because it was. 0
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