Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

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.

Exactly. Home should be how you want it to be. Things we do cosmetically we do not expect to add value beyond the fact there is plaster that is functional for people to put their taste on, and as sale isn't a consideration ATM, it doesn't matter anyway.

e.g. we're thinking of a copper or a wood bath ...but don't expect it to add value or saleability. where it crosses the line is something that not only would not add value but would be too big a cost to leave....e.g. dh and I would love a bath like this http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://bathroomsdesign.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/amethyst-bath-520x380.jpg&imgrefurl=http://bathroomsdesign.org/amethyst-24-karat-gold-plated-bathtub-by-baldi/&usg=__ri3N-NaNB-8GPHHXDOTXLZvQxfg=&h=380&w=520&sz=28&hl=en&start=10&zoom=1&tbnid=Nb9hikggr72yqM:&tbnh=137&tbnw=188&ei=vc3GTaagEomxhAfj8JjwAw&prev=/search%3Fq%3Damethyst%2Bbath%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3Dhfn%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1045%26bih%3D461%26tbm%3Disch0%2C484&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=637&vpy=140&dur=358&hovh=190&hovw=260&tx=148&ty=73&page=2&ndsp=10&ved=1t:429,r:8,s:10&biw=1045&bih=461

but, even if we could afford it (check out the price!)....it would be nonsensical to do it in case we did ever need to leave!

You say it just right...its about things YOU like, not other people in your home.

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.

Oooh, good to know it works in bathroom

I like the description of your maybe kitchen


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Thank you.

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.

That is a nice white. we got so many samples of white it made my head spin for our windows. We have opted for this:

http://www.farrow-ball.com/shaded-white/colours//fcp-product/100201

which looked very bold next to the old gloss white in test patches, and indeed, compared to all the other whites we tried, but looks very subtle and cooling on the finished window. (must do another one soon). In the afternon/evening the sun hits th back of the house with some vigour and this looks exceptional then. The back of our house is lime rendered in a funny yellow/cream, the rest is old red brick. The yellow coul have taken a much duller colour, but the clasic red brick needed sensitivity not our boldness.

Choosing colours for the yard etc is proving very much harder. I need a dark colour (for mimimise impact of mud and muck) and a lighter colour. and a colour for woodwork/doors (but not shaded white) It gets REALLY hot in summer (over 40) and blinding hot, otherwise the choice for a similar yellow to the house render would be obvious. (we might not be able to open out eyes if we go so bright). But I don't want it to look to separate from the house....I want them to look related to each other. I might go for the yellow and give every one sunglasses, with brown for lower walls. It would be ''tasteful'' and it can be seen from the road. Good knows what for doors/windows. I quite fancy painting it aubergine. The woman in Farrow and ball almost cried. I won't...outside a house what you love and what the listed buildings officer might conclude aren't necessarily good buddies.:D

michaels

I did this last week (only 13 months after we moved) and went back on Royal Wedding Day to find a street party which was nice to crash and catch up with all our old neighbours at once. The buyers of ours were a little bit cool - may be they had discovered the slow leak in one of the valves by the tank hidden in the roof?!

LydiaJ wrote: »

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.

So I notice they have not hidden the steel in the kitchen ceiling - how much extra is it worth spending to put the steels in the ceiling void?

Doozergirl wrote: »

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.

michaels

Building etiquette?

Our builders are due to start in a week - our two cars will be on the road disrupting the parking and obviously there will be the noise and disruption and deliveries and skips. What would be a suitable gift for the neighbours to say sorry and how many neighbours should we 'do'?

Doozergirl

michaels wrote: »

Building etiquette?

Our builders are due to start in a week - our two cars will be on the road disrupting the parking and obviously there will be the noise and disruption and deliveries and skips. What would be a suitable gift for the neighbours to say sorry and how many neighbours should we 'do'?

I'd offer them a limb each. I don't know how many neighbours you have, but your wife may have to relinquish some too.

Bottle of wine when you've finished, I'd suggest and a nosey round the new extension - which is all they really want

As for the ceiling - how much is it worth to you? You won't notice after a very short period of time - it's the piers that I find more annoying. If you are knocking out into the new extension to create a bigger room, it is much easier to lose the beam than it is when knocking out between two existing rooms. Between two existing rooms it's an awful lot of work and mess. You need to ask the structural engineer doing the beam what complications you'll stumble across in raising it. Is there even enough space between the floors to hide it - will depend on the house and the RSJ needed.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

So I notice they have not hidden the steel in the kitchen ceiling - how much extra is it worth spending to put the steels in the ceiling void?

I like it there.

We've opted to use traditional construction even where we don't strictly have to internally....e.g. in the restoration of the Georgian bit internally. We dithered over whether reclaimed beams etc might look too Disney...I hope it won't. In the kitchen bit it will be vaulted. New timbers will look new and any steel ties be exposed. In the bit downstairs where we hope to remove a wall the ceilings are different heights and the steel will be inset but a (new) beam put in to make the change in ceiling heights make some sense. If it were gooling to be modern decor in side I'd be happy for a plastered RSJ. (in fact ours isn't an RSJ but some sort of belt of steel for more support.)

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Do you dislike the ones I linked to?

I think I have the right to remain silent ...

PasturesNew

I see you lot have been having a posh afternoon ..... with all your fancy colours. I'd never even heard of Farrow and Ball paint before I came to MSE.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I see you lot have been having a posh afternoon ..... with all your fancy colours. I'd never even heard of Farrow and Ball paint before I came to MSE.

when I've decorated I'll hope never to hear of it again!

edit: the rest of afternoon has been wrestling with pruning lilacs.....I'm sure I've been to harsh....and trying to convince dh to let me attack the elder trees in the garden....he wants the flowers before I haul them out....we have LOADS of 'em else where and I think they smell of piddle, digging more big holes (ok this time watching him dig big holes).

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

That is a nice white. we got so many samples of white it made my head spin for our windows. We have opted for this:

http://www.farrow-ball.com/shaded-white/colours//fcp-product/100201

which looked very bold next to the old gloss white in test patches, and indeed, compared to all the other whites we tried, but looks very subtle and cooling on the finished window. (must do another one soon). In the afternon/evening the sun hits th back of the house with some vigour and this looks exceptional then. The back of our house is lime rendered in a funny yellow/cream, the rest is old red brick. The yellow coul have taken a much duller colour, but the clasic red brick needed sensitivity not our boldness.

The paint samples aren't cheap! We have a lot of Slipper Satin in our house and it changes with each room. We have one room which is purely that colour and that too looks soft and stunning in the afternoon light. It just looks white, white against the Downpipe in our dining room but I checked before I painted and it was a good match, but it's not as lovely as it is in that one white room. With a paler but still mid-grey in the upstairs hall it's soft again.

It's nice that you think about it though. A house can be really lifted with the colours you choose for the outside.

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

I like it there.

We've opted to use traditional construction even where we don't strictly have to internally....e.g. in the restoration of the Georgian bit internally. We dithered over whether reclaimed beams etc might look too Disney...I hope it won't.

In Kent, the listings lot insisted that new beams were actually new - to show the progress of the house. The beams are the same size, and same oak, but 700-odd years younger.