Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

PasturesNew

Your box is full - I'll email you the details, so you at least know/have a photo.

GDB2222

I have just spent £260 + on a couple of SSDs, so I can have RAID1 SSDs on my PC. That's more than I spent on the PC originally, IIRC, but it should speed it up nicely. I'll keep you posted.

PasturesNew

My world is devoid of the poshness that's at the end of the links you post LIR ... I had NO idea ever that such things existed in the world before .....

All your preferred interior stuff (from amethyst baths to shell walls) .... I've simply never even heard of... I thought bathrooms etc were bought from B&Q if you were me, or Dolphin if you were posh!

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

My world is devoid of the poshness that's at the end of the links you post LIR ... I had NO idea ever that such things existed in the world before .....

All your preferred interior stuff (from amethyst baths to shell walls) .... I've simply never even heard of... I thought bathrooms etc were bought from B&Q if you were me, or Dolphin if you were posh!

Well, i will never have an amethyst bath.:( my parents last kitchen cost too much imo from magnet, and their bathrooms are from a bathroom retailer on a trading estate. I did source them some very cool kitchen tiles though, after becoming frustrated with their choices. My mother's next kitchen i am helping her with and is likely to be from wickes and bathroom from the same bathroom retailer as last time. It will be lovely, buit more traditional. I am not too traditional and selling is not our first plan for this house, so i feel more free to do what we would like.

I just google for in this case, bathrooms and then spend hours, or Days, sometimes even weeks ploughing through looking at what i like. I knew about paua shell tiles because some time ago a relative of mine was thinking of things to do with paua shell, but found them again because dh likes it and i googled it, and eventually the tiles came up. There is no mistake, the shell for this bathroom will be a very definitely not first choice. (i later plan to search to see if i can buy that rough marble in a groutable version, possiblly big tiles, but i will also ask on the tile forum viva linked too).

I also like design and architecture. I have books on it and love nothing more than a curl up with a gleaned copy of architectural digest (posh price means i do not buy it!) and thinking what i like for other people, what i like for if i did not live in this house and what i like for me and this house, and what i do not like, lol.

In fact, ipad is not as good for LOnG searches, because it gives fewer results, but for scrolling theough the ones it does its better. It means i do more searches using different words. So i might try 'white texture bathroom' or 'natural material bathroom tile' or some such, and just...keep going til i find things i like, then consider them then post here.

lostinrates

Oh, and don't forget flash is not the same as posh. Lots of the things i like are distinctly tacky, which is not posh in the least. The posh bit is that i am confident enough not to care that other people won't like them,

(edit and even that is not fail safe, there are realms of practicality or tackiness that i might like but would never do, e.g. Dh would love a gold leafed room, for me,.....i would pobably limit myself to the ceililng and the odd wall.

PasturesNew

To be honest.... I did think the mother of pearl tiles were tacky

But then I have no taste, so assumed I was wrong as you wanted them

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

To be honest.... I did think the mother of pearl tiles were tacky

But then I have no taste, so assumed I was wrong as you wanted them

No,they are tacky.:) And could very easily be very tacky. I think if i go for white ones, in my scheme of white and dark wood, (white or maybe beighe towels etc, and no flash any where else) it will be chic but very easy to ruin that. Eg, adding those beautiful gold ones in a trim...definitely tacky unless its in a spa, adding pink or aqua or black, tacky. Grey could work nicely though.

The whole room is going to be unusual thpugh, and needs a wow tile to work, but i definitely want white for a particular reason, so texture and play of light is my only choice, and really would prefer a 'natural' material.

Btw, purple skirtings are tavky too, but so would decorating our house as if our parents live here be imo, which is the other choice.

CKhalvashi

lostinrates wrote: »

Oh, and don't forget flash is not the same as posh. Lots of the things i like are distinctly tacky, which is not posh in the least. The posh bit is that i am confident enough not to care that other people won't like them,

(edit and even that is not fail safe, there are realms of practicality or tackiness that i might like but would never do, e.g. Dh would love a gold leafed room, for me,.....i would pobably limit myself to the ceililng and the odd wall.

I said that to Pastures when I showed her my car, but she doesn't seem to agree....

It looks nice, so it's flash

It's a Ford, so it's not posh :O

lostinrates

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I said that to Pastures when I showed her my car, but she doesn't seem to agree....

It looks nice, so it's flash

It's a Ford, so it's not posh :O

Hmm, sort opf. Some of the poshest people i know have a cheap ford hatchback as well as a landrover. Posh is also most definitely not burning money.

There is also a geographical element to this i think. I relaised this talking to my father. E.g. Out here the sort of 'executive' saloon is decidedly unposh....they are usually ex company cars and sold at car auctions, where as in London the same cars would be quite 'posh'. Here old fords are quite posh. I had a ford for years, bought because it was kinda pretty, not steal worthy, little to park and covered motor way miles very well and even though i loved it i would not cry when people scraped it in london streets.

Tbh, the only thing that matters is choosing things suitable, affordable and pleasurable for ourselves. Anything else is neither posh nor unposh but silly,

SingleSue

silvercar wrote: »

Don't the kids all know who is going to which open day and when?

DS1 and 2 sometimes went to open days on their own, travelling with others from school.

Apparently not! Or if they do, they haven't discussed it....it's a Suffolk thing :rotfl: