Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Get a good furniture maker to look at it to see if it can be made bigger. As beds are basically rectangular they should be able to do that while retaining its character. Sure it will cost, but if you like it why not?

Seconded, or use it for DD/spare room till you get really old and might want his/her bedrooms when you are uber successful in a dorest beachside mansion. (edit, just read DD is wag not shabby chic. what a pity.)

My DH used to say he wanted to sleep in a single bed forever after a squashed night early in relationship. we spend most of relationship, thank goodness not in a single but in a 4'6 bed, and now have a 5 foot bed and its still a squash, once everybody has climbed in. The other night as one of the cats grumbled at the squash in the bed I said to dh a super king should be on the list for when we next buy a bed. I think that means the romance is over? When a single bed just means squash, not cuddling?

vivatifosi

fc123 wrote: »

OH is a carpenter so he could have made it longer (but didn't) but the width is not alterable...he often get's pushed over the edge.:rotfl:

The width probably is alterable, but not in a straighforward sense. You'd probably need to insert two new carved sections into the head and foot boards as well. Not easy, but it is feasible. However... from the sound of it, it would make a very nice bed for a guest room exactly as it is.

I love Ligne Roset and am a designer furniture junkie. My favourite designer is Charles Eames, I have one of these in my house: http://www.icollector.com/Eames-Aluminum-Group-lounge-chair-and-ottoman_i8534317
however I do like the juxtaposition of old pieces alongside new, stops a house looking too sterile/showroom like.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

Seconded, or use it for DD/spare room till you get really old and might want his/her bedrooms when you are uber successful in a dorest beachside mansion.

My DH used to say he wanted to sleep in a single bed forever after a squashed night early in relationship. we spend most of relationship, thank goodness not in a single but in a 4'6 bed, and not have a 5 foot bed and its still a squash, one everybody has climbed in. The other night as one of the cats grumbled at the squash in the bed I said to dh a super king should be on the list for when we next buy a bed. I think that means the romance is over? When a single bed just means squash, not cuddling?

Without going on and on about me myself I...we are strapped for work space and I have been doing sums on taking on some commercial space and every which way I look at it, I want to chuck that spend at the mortgage instead.......would be gone in under 3 years....and give us a freedom that we have never ever had. The prize for all the slog.

We have decided to use the 4th bedroom as stockroom, the sun lounge for machines and work table, trims and all the gubbins.
Main lounge will have book work in cupboards.

Garage will house patterns (I have 20 foot of the dam things) on a double rack.
Sons room I will keep as his but store sample fabrics in a corner of it.

Small bed;
I like the squish except in the summer as he get's hot and is quite hairy so makes me itch a bit....must be why he falls off the edge as I guess I subconsciously push him out the way.

It just doesn't match this house. It does store flat so maybe we will put it in the garage, wrapped up in the antique covers. Slats can go in the loft.

Cleaver

vivatifosi wrote: »

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I love Ligne Roset and am a designer furniture junkie. My favourite designer is Charles Eames, I have one of these in my house: http://www.icollector.com/Eames-Aluminum-Group-lounge-chair-and-ottoman_i8534317
however I do like the juxtaposition of old pieces alongside new, stops a house looking too sterile/showroom like.

We're scouring eBay and second hand places for a beat up, old-looking sidetable for our hall because everything else in there is modern-looking. Quite hard to find something suitable that isn't a rip-off though.

This is possibly the most girly post I've ever written on here.

fc123

:rotfl:

wageslave wrote: »

Fleabay is much more fun than the bankruptcy board

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290421201743&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

:rotfl:
:rotfl::rotfl:
You are going to have to work hard for that 99p. How much do you normally get for each word you write and sell?

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

Small bed;
I like the squish except in the summer as he get's hot and is quite hairy so makes me itch a bit....must be why he falls off the edge as I guess I subconsciously push him out the way.

exactly...that elastoplast removal rip as you push a sweaty hairy leg of you...yeauck. DH is a hot and hirsute sleeper too, whereas I stay quite cold in bed...so summer is the problem. Oterwise we sleep legs all in a tangle and snuggly...less room taken up than single, but more room for cats, dogs....and a cool move a way zone when required.

fc123

Cleaver wrote: »

We're scouring eBay and second hand places for a beat up, old-looking sidetable for our hall because everything else in there is modern-looking. Quite hard to find something suitable that isn't a rip-off though.

This is possibly the most girly post I've ever written on here.

Have you not got any auctions near you? Brighton one had some amazing stuff in it and so cheap too.

vivatifosi

Cleaver wrote: »

We're scouring eBay and second hand places for a beat up, old-looking sidetable for our hall because everything else in there is modern-looking. Quite hard to find something suitable that isn't a rip-off though.

This is possibly the most girly post I've ever written on here.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1960s-RETRO-STYLE-FURNITURE_W0QQitemZ150427552126QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Home_Garden_DiningRoomFurniture_SM?hash=item23062e497e

How about a post-war design, modern classic? Can be picked up quite cheap at the moment. This is a sideboard, too big and in the wrong place, but will give you an idea of what sort of thing I mean.

carolt

You're learning fast, Cleaver.

I'm v jealous of the bed, fc - love walnut and I've been bugging ebay for the past couple of years trying to find my dream bedframe, which sounds uncannily like yours - except it would have to be king size. We don't fit in just a double, esp once the little ones pile in for a hug. Even when it's just us, it feels cramped; I've got too used to moving about - couldn't go back to a double.

We spent a few weeks at the start of our relationship squeezed into a 2'6" bed. Didn't seem a problem - at the time.

carolt

LydiaJ wrote: »

Take it from me, it isn't. Marking one's own students' work isn't too bad. You have chosen and set the work, you are at least mildly interested in how they do at it, and you only have to mark a fairly small number before you can feel satisfied that you have got that job done.

Marking exam scripts is much worse. I did it once - never ever again. The same thing over and over and over again, hundreds of times. No idea of who these kids are - so no way of caring one way or the other whether they do well or badly. No flexibility if you disagree with the markscheme. Absolutely mind-numbing. And paid less than national minimum wage (or it was when I did it).

I hate housework, but I'd rather do housework than mark public exams again.

Totally agree - it's dull as !!!! - but it's paying for my summer holiday.

Oh - and it does pay more than minimum wage, and all from the comfort of my own PC - but boy, is it dull.