the daydream fund challenge thread

rozeepozee

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Just replied to the Take a Look at This thread, and thought you lot might have a giggle at my response to the estate agent's blurb. Fun to see somewhere I know on that thread! :j :rotfl:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=49748573&postcount=2112

That's what I wanted for Christmas!

rozeepozee

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Our whole house is painted white. The play of light on it alters it all the time. In summer the back bedroom becomes green from the reflected light from the trees, but our front bedroom is more creamy with the sun shining in (faces South West). It was done as an easy fix and to seal the plaster, but looks so good I think we'll probably keep it.

I'm a bi fan of white. I was put off it by the fact that I did the same with our old place but it was so cold and draughty that the white exacerbated the coldness in certain parts of the house - especially when padding to the loo down the long draughty corridor in the middle of the night. This resulted in an extreme reaction and I painted the hallway deep pink - it grated after a while! Need to find something in between perhaps, but if the house is well insulated as is the plan, white may well be fine.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Two beds I planted near the house are too near - I riddled all the soil, but will have to do away with them as they're shadowed now the walls & stuff are built - you'd have thought would have realised that at the time - DOH!.

This is a problem we have, but in a slightly different way. We can't start any proper planting or landscaping around the house until the builders are done, which is very frustrating. :mad:

Did I mention my DD2's announcement of wedding plans for next September? Well, although we are very pleased & all that, it scuppers any building work on the house in 2012.....:(

May do something to the barn instead.

lostinrates

rozeepozee wrote: »

I'm a bi fan of white. I was put off it by the fact that I did the same with our old place but it was so cold and draughty that the white exacerbated the coldness in certain parts of the house - especially when padding to the loo down the long draughty corridor in the middle of the night. This resulted in an extreme reaction and I painted the hallway deep pink - it grated after a while! Need to find something in between perhaps, but if the house is well insulated as is the plan, white may well be fine.

white works superbly in a warm, beautiful comfortable house. I love white and grey and also white and very brights. We were going to have a white and greyish mauve hallway, but now might be keeping the mauvey colour but going dark on the walls....we tried a borrowed light sort of colour and here it fels lifeless and cold. It was worth trying.

we've got paint samples up all over the place downstairs, because kitchen was meant to be done l (almost last year, as of tomorrow) autumn, but the delay meant not. Ironically, the kitchen/study areas downstairs are the ones I have haven't finalised decision on. Downstairs reception rooms are all going to be shades of green, ranging from almost grey, through chartreuse, and right up to a high pitched turquoise. The kitchen I want to feel milky.....so a cleanish milkywhite but keeping the green, with greeny blue woodwork (but creamish white cabnitry). we're not sure about the ceiling, which is going to be vaulted. the sensible thing would be white, and we have too ''cloud painted'' ceilings planned elsewhere, but white might just be too sensible for us. I think a lot will depend on what happens for dh in the early part of next year.


IMO whether you go for mix ups of farrow and ball or the real deal depends on why you are getting it. for colour there is no doubt, its the best option price wise....but you lose the depth and chalkiness: for strong colours I'd certainly go F and B. tbh, the colours I want aren't all available F and B but I want the chalkiness of them.....which is proving hard. One of the downstairs colours we've chosen is a Little Greene paint....its got great depth of colour and is nicely matt, but not chalky soft looking IYSWIM.

it tooks us MONTHS to choose the off white for the outside windows. Ultimately I was a bit worried as it looked so bold against gloss white, and we were going through listed approval so didn't want to rock any boats, plus, I think there is only so far you can go and not look contrived on georgian windows, but up it looks very not bold, just like what its called ''Shaded White''. Its a good choice, and I'm glad I wasn't either braver or daunted by the comparison to gloss white.

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

This is a problem we have, but in a slightly different way. We can't start any proper planting or landscaping around the house until the builders are done, which is very frustrating. :mad:

Did I mention my DD2's announcement of wedding plans for next September? Well, although we are very pleased & all that, it scuppers any building work on the house in 2012.....:(

May do something to the barn instead.

NO! Congrats to DD!

I'm in smae boat with garden and its drving my potty. I was hoping to be finishing the little garden to the nborth of the kitchen by now, over this winter, and enjoying it this sping and summer not thinking about what I'll hopefully be doing there next winter..

Itismehonest

choille wrote: »

No It was daft of me putting them where they are & I think I want gravel around the house instead of mud!

Black cat has just come in soaking wet, must dry him off before he climbs into bed when I go.

Mud I know the feeling. We've gravelled quite a bit immediately around the house. Anywhere that's well travelled has had some sort of 'hard' landscaping. Put some Terram (more expensive than ordinary weed suppressant but much, much more durable) down first & it stops stuff growing through. All in all it not only saves mud it saves work

Itismehonest

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Our whole house is painted white. The play of light on it alters it all the time. In summer the back bedroom becomes green from the reflected light from the trees, but our front bedroom is more creamy with the sun shining in (faces South West). It was done as an easy fix and to seal the plaster, but looks so good I think we'll probably keep it.

We have a lot of white rooms, too, but the rooms in the oldest part of the house are all lime-washed. It breathes & allows us to get more creative with colours - if we don't just want to buy pigment off the shelf.

Itismehonest

Davesnave wrote: »

This is a problem we have, but in a slightly different way. We can't start any proper planting or landscaping around the house until the builders are done, which is very frustrating. :mad:

Did I mention my DD2's announcement of wedding plans for next September? Well, although we are very pleased & all that, it scuppers any building work on the house in 2012.....:(

May do something to the barn instead.

Congratulations to your daughter, Dave :beer:

Davesnave

Itismehonest wrote: »

Congratulations to your daughter, Dave :beer:

Thanks Itsme & lir. It happened in September, and instantly I went "Hooray!" and "Doh!" in roughly equal amounts.

Yes, it's good that it's being formalised, but as they live together anyway, I'd have been happy to see the current arrangement continue until...well, after our refurb.

Or they could have gone to Gretna Green!

Does that make me a bad Dad?

After years of muddling-around due to an elderly parent, it seems we shall be waiting yet again. Best thing now is to get all the planning up-together and decisions taken so that it goes quickly when we start.

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Thanks Itsme & lir. It happened in September, and instantly I went "Hooray!" and "Doh!" in roughly equal amounts.

Yes, it's good that it's being formalised, but as they live together anyway, I'd have been happy to see the current arrangement continue until...well, after our refurb.

Or they could have gone to Gretna Green!

Does that make me a bad Dad?

After years of muddling-around due to an elderly parent, it seems we shall be waiting yet again. Best thing now is to get all the planning up-together and decisions taken so that it goes quickly when we start.

the only person who was pleased with the way dh and I did things was my dad. I could see him going paler as my fil and mother tried to out do each other with guestlist and requirements. at one point DM and FIL were each saying they wanted ''their'' religious officiate to do the ceremony so would have to find a priest and a rabbi who would work together, then I got grumpy and said I wanted a druid, so for a mad few days we were seriously suggesting trying to have a ceremony with more officiates than affianced. Crazy. the registrar did a perfectly good job, and only one of them