Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

misskool

Everyone seems to really do colour schemes and everything. I just buy things I like and stick it in. The house is rental magnolia and white ceilings. Gosh, it must seem very clinical when my friends come to stay.

michaels

Would be what I would choose too - I am debating whether to stick with white tiles or go for something pale grey/stone.

misskool wrote: »

Everyone seems to really do colour schemes and everything. I just buy things I like and stick it in. The house is rental magnolia and white ceilings. Gosh, it must seem very clinical when my friends come to stay.

silvercar

misskool wrote: »

Everyone seems to really do colour schemes and everything. I just buy things I like and stick it in. The house is rental magnolia and white ceilings. Gosh, it must seem very clinical when my friends come to stay.

Ideal background to add your own furnishing style.

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

Would be what I would choose too - I am debating whether to stick with white tiles or go for something pale grey/stone.

White suite and white tiles is going to look too clinical. You either need to add some colour in the accessories or in the tiling or fitments.

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

I couldn't make a decision about tiles. Oh no. White is my limit... beyond white the fear of getting it horribly wrong takes over.

When I tiled my bathroom and kitchen my only thought process was to find the largest tiles possible, cos I'm lazy and wanted to minimise the amount of work involved!

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

White suite and white tiles is going to look too clinical. You either need to add some colour in the accessories or in the tiling or fitments.

I love white suite and white tiles. Did that in London. (with a slate floor and then eau di nil walls where untiled). It was sublime. Not bold or particularly my style, but really beautiful. Slightly 30s feeling.

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I couldn't make a decision about tiles. Oh no. White is my limit... beyond white the fear of getting it horribly wrong takes over.

Do you dislike the ones I linked to?

neverdespairgirl

misskool wrote: »

Everyone seems to really do colour schemes and everything. I just buy things I like and stick it in. The house is rental magnolia and white ceilings. Gosh, it must seem very clinical when my friends come to stay.

it's not a scheme - just tiles we really like.

The rest of the tiles (apart from those pictures) will be off-white.

LydiaJ

Not a good day today. DD woke at 4.10 and came through to tell me that she couldn't possibly get back to sleep without her teddy, which she had left in the car, so I had to get up and go out in the rain to bring it in.

Later (when we'd all got up at a sensible time) I gave in to DS's pestering about chasing up what has happened to the lego that we ordered for him from Amazon, and I discover I have inadvertently ordered it to be delivered to our old address. Will have to ring the LA tomorrow to find out what happened when it was presumably delivered there last week. The house is empty. We went there this afternoon to see if the postman had left it in the recycling box or something, but it wasn't there. There are signs of redecoration in the house, so they are presumably now getting it ready for reletting. The "To Let" board is still up outside, but it still hasn't reappeared on RM.

While I was checking on RM to see if our old house had reappeared as to let, I had a quick look to see what came up for sale on my old househunting search parameters. One or two quite nice houses have appeared, although with asking prices around £35k higher than I paid for this one, but otherwise I still don't like any of them. Very happy with this house, and definitely wouldn't want to be still searching now, with DS's secondary school application coming up in the autumn.

Now I have a headache. I wonder if the kids might let me go to sleep for an hour or so???????

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

If you're staying in it what is right for you is enough.....forget taste. We're thinking of v. pale limestone for the main bathroom and possibly a yellower stone for the first floor guest en suite...(but not sure because its overdone badly which is of putting). Taste for our bathroo will be bolder...the kind of picture we put up here and giggle about people thinking it makes their house worth more. DH and I saw a mobile phone shop in the airport in Milan this week that was ocean blue and v. sparkly, we couldn't work out what it was though...and the shop people didn't know either. DH would like that though. I' not a blue person, but if it came in different colourways maybe we'd reach a comprimise over it. I want a bathroom to feel ''not of this place''. I want to close the door and feel clean, but also both relaxed and happy. We're even thinking about ''star'' inset lights in a darker ceiling for the bathroom. Now, I accept most people would think it hellish, but for us....


I want this sort of tile in my kitchen splash back I think
http://www.firedearth.com/tiles/suitability/wall/freshwater-pearl-17844
to feel a bit milk bottley, so it still feels sort of dairyish. If I opt for tiles that is. I'm also considering stone (but nothing too granitey) and recycled glass Its a bit ''sparkly'' but I'd have ticking blinds and curtains to pull it back to earth a bit, and painted wood ''units''. Ther is also a heavyish fireplace going in there, and north windows over kitchen area (south windows by eating area but no tiles over there) so keeping it light and light bouncy. It has a flag floor we're hoping to keep.

I'm the same with the yellowy tiles. It is nice and we put travertine in the projects because it's popular and tasteful, but not in our own house because it's becoming so common. Our house is slightly outrageous with lots of bold colours but I've noticed our friends getting braver which they say is because of me. If it's your home it should be filled with things you love, not things you necessarily want other people to love.

DS has sparkly fibre optics inset into his wall at 'home'. The big house has them in the ceiling in the bathroom - we needed to use them as they'd been in garages for a few years. Of course now we're moving, it would be nice if they weren't in the big house and were still in the garage. I wonder what H would say if I asked him to take them out after he spent an entire day drilling holes and poking fibres through! They are lovely to look at and DS bedroom at night is such a nice place to be.

I like the description of your maybe kitchen. I was thinking I'd like painted units in our maybe kitchen in our maybe house. Being one of those people that can compare whites forever, I like the milky colour of the units in this house, it's looks like quite a fresh colour.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-33557996.html
We found a lovely quartz surface that is a mid grey with a very fine sandlike look to it. I thought it was understated but I think it would go really well with those fired earth tiles and the simple window dressings.

If I could pick up the facade of that house and move it here, I'd have found my house. I miss London Brick.