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Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things
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Disappointed. When you said "interesting" I thought water bed, or possible one of those circular beds where the TV rises slowly out of a hidden slot.
If your wardrobes are underneath, how high is the bed? I'm envisaging high enough for the wardrobes to store hanging room for dresses?
So do you have a ladder to get in, and a slide to get out. I saw one like that in IKEA, but it was in the children's section.
Can Isaac manage to climb in?
I said, "mad" not "interesting" (-:
It's got 5 ft of clearance under the bed. Ladders x 2, platform at the end, wardrobes are higher, because the top is the bedside tables.
There are 4 chests of drawers under it, and shoe racks. And shelves.
Isaac can climb far better and faster than we can, he's 6 now, and like a little monkey....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »Normally, I loathe high gloss kitchens.
In that house, though, it'll fit in well. It's revoltingly ugly.
I'm stuck in a 1970's time-warp style-wise, and I rather like the house.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
I would definitely love to have a slide to get out of bed. How good would that be?
At first I though...yeah...that would be good....then I thought about climbing on to the slide naked in the morning and the skin burn as you stuck and slid against your sticking skin and the pull of gravity to the bottom.....would be like a does of carpet burn every single morning......so...I'll pass I think.0 -
Doozergirl wrote: »We need a picture of the bed when it's in
but it does sound fun. I thought the same as silvercar but this sounds a little more practical! Did you have it designed especially for you?
Look at those lovely units! And sink! They look really substantial, beautifully made.
Brilliant. You simply must have the side table to match it, otherwise it doesn't make enough of a statement.
Well - I designed the bed. Because I couldn't find anything even remotely like I had in mind. My mother's been taking the p!ss, because at the moment we have a futon. She says if we average our beds out over the years, we'll have a normal height one.
The kitchen is lovely, incredibly solid. It's been installed with huge botls, metal ropes, and is rather nice. The kitchen fitter (same height as my OH, over 6 ft, and wide with it) demonstrated the solidity by pulling himself up on one of the wall cupboards - which stayed on the wall....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »Well - I designed the bed. Because I couldn't find anything even remotely like I had in mind. My mother's been taking the p!ss, because at the moment we have a futon. She says if we average our beds out over the years, we'll have a normal height one..
dh and I had a tall bed...not as tall as yours, but the height, pretty exactly
the height of one divan placed upon another and two mattresses. Because that what it was. we called it the dais. It was great apart from that we both, not being as tall as your oh, needed to make a bit of a jump to get in/on it. One night we did this with the light off at exactly the same time, head butted each other and ended up on the floor on eitherside of the bed holding our heads and shreiking with laughter and pain both. 0 -
lostinrates wrote: »doozer...not worth 8k to you and H or to a client you might do the same work for? I'm guessing the difference to make it worth the while for you and H!
Also doozer...while you might be popping in ....I remember you saying you used a lot of F&B slipper satin...can I ask why that white? I'm trying to get a first draft of decorating details finished for the architect (we can chage our mind at any stage but he suggests having some firm idea in mind). The colours for dh's study and the kitchen are proving elusive and lime white, which I like, seems quite dark on the amount of wood work we have. In fact, its funny, we've been here so long now that when I put the sample of teresa's green (a vastly preferable colour than the peach here now) on the wall of my sitting room I started to get a little uneasy about changing the colour at all, lol.
The asenic we thought we wanted on the study walls is actually too dull and we want a zingier turquoise, which we might struggle with in the nice chalky finish (F and B don't have one, and neither do Little Greene). And my milky kitchen is proofing harder than I thought. I wanted not white woodwork....blue green or something (like milk bottles), but now have decided to have stone skirtings, so might go a shade paler for windows and doors, but may be not. But all of the off whites look a bit grubby on the walls, and cream too sickly, I want a milky WHITE not a custardy cream.
I wouldn't worry about any white looking dark. It does get like that when you're comparing whites but the end result is always a paint that looks white.
Do F&B have a helpline at all? The colours do different things depending on where they are and what they are placed with. If they really know their stuff, they'd be able to guide you on the background colours in the white. I picked Slipper Satin intially because it looked right with Downpipe. In that room it looked very milky but I think it was the Downpipe making it that way.
I put it in the spare room too and it didn't look particularly milky, you could *almost* see the slight tint of the ballet shoe but not. With the ceilings and skirting all the same colour, it absolutely sang. I love, love, loved it in that room.
I've had blue green on skirtings and doors. I changed the whole room to Oval Room blue when we got new doors, I think H wanted something more manly. It was lovely at night, dimly lit.
We have a Brewers a few miles away and it has lots of different posh paint ranges. I've never used Sanderson but they have a range and a half in the whole rainbow. I can't remember if it's their display where there's a light switch you can change from warm to cool - it really illustrates how light changes colour. I don't think it is. They have three different colour matching machines too. Where Dulux fails, the others pick up. I'll have a look for a more zingy turuoise if you're still looking then.
You have a bit of time, so I'd make use of an entire tester pot and slap it all up on a wall if you think you're getting close.Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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I'd not want to sleep on a bed above drawers - but then the only drawers I've ever owned have bowed outwards in the middle as they sag under their own weight (MFI 1970s).
How do you get up there?
We will need a photo.
12'x13' imho is a big bedroom.... stuff small dreams are made of in fact. Big dreams would be 18'x15'.0 -
Doozergirl wrote: »Look at those lovely units! And sink! They look really substantial, beautifully made.
I'm old enough to remember my parents replacing our old butler's sink with a beautiful stainless steel one.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I'd not want to sleep on a bed above drawers - but then the only drawers I've ever owned have bowed outwards in the middle as they sag under their own weight (MFI 1970s).
How do you get up there?
We will need a photo.
12'x13' imho is a big bedroom.... stuff small dreams are made of in fact. Big dreams would be 18'x15'.
Two ladders, one each side.
12 x 13 isn't big, really, for 2 people. Once you have a double bed in, there's not much room for wardrobes, chests
of drawers, bedside tables, and a dressing table.
PN, I can't post a new thread in the other place. Is it a general problem, or just me?...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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