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

Doozergirl

Oh, and this blog. I didn't know this "event" exisited but it goes on all day and night but once a year. I almost wept when I found out it was a few weeks ago. I should book a ferry ready for next year, it looks great! All the things you can fill your house with and PN can tailor make for you and fashion to sell to posh Londoners

http://homeshoppingspy.com/2012/09/19/la-braderie-de-lille-2012/

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

I've always wanted to buy an overhead projector! I used to do lots of stuff with them at art college, have wanted one for nearly 20 years but never got one. I used to hand paint things when I had no kids and time, but I've ended up buying vinyl wall stickers recently. And now you can use projectors attached to the 'puter (starts pondering about borrowing one from work!)

You can justify expensive wallpaper in bathrooms and kitchens by the virtue it's cheaper than tiling

I like secret colour, like fancy lining on an otherwise serious suit. I like the colour inside these kitchen units. http://www.plainenglishdesign.co.uk/longhouse.html

You oh and I have agreed there is something funky about you and I. If I say I want to do something he says, yeah...that's just what d,girl wants to do, and vice versa. It's very odd. The secret colour thing came up this week, like suit linings. And one colour walls and cabinetry in kitchens (I have a great pic to show you of a local carpenters kitchen) and...something else, cannot remember what.

Meanwhile, today going to get paint, conversation drifted to gardens and your discussions on them, and I said I bet I had some pictures you might like, that would work well ina garden the size of yours, and with the kind of restraint of style you have so much more than I could ever hope to. Things like entire beds of just blue irises. So most of the year it's green and verdant, but then you get this heady blue chic rush, that is stylish and modern but old fashioned too......simia
R design principle to the sort of cabinetry we like.

That way you get to garden, but not be a slave to it iyswim.


I like some of this this garden designers work (though would never use one myself). http://www.robinwilliams.co.uk/

Also in a local garden this year the lavender lined raised beds (brick walls of which provide somewhere to sit) were planted only with poppies...Shirley's, so reds, pinks, whites. One of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. A bolder and more modern nod would be the orange Californian poppies I love so much (whoch would also look great with blue or purple irises...I love purple and orange together, it's like a violent shock of enforced joy)

Nikkster

silvercar wrote: »

You could try airbandb.co.uk

Thanks Hadn't come across that website before.

Nikkster

Doozergirl wrote: »

I like secret colour, like fancy lining on an otherwise serious suit. I like the colour inside these kitchen units. http://www.plainenglishdesign.co.uk/longhouse.html

That is gorgeous. When I am finally grown enough to have a kitchen of my very own rather than be looking to rent a share of someone elses, I hope I remember that picture

PasturesNew

Going abroad for tat .... then blogging about the !!!!!! you bought.

What a way to spend your days......... women like that need dunking.

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

Thanks Hadn't come across that website before.

That's where I found the hotel I stayed in 2 months ago. I saw them on there, but then googled for the hotel and phoned them/booked direct. No booking fee that way.

Some prices are ludicrous - and some are dirt cheap.

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

That is gorgeous. When I am finally grown enough to have a kitchen of my very own rather than be looking to rent a share of someone elses, I hope I remember that picture

It's what we are doing, but probably in a more vulgar manner. Pinks, crimsons, bright colours. A different one inside each cupboard or shelf within a cupboard.

It's the fancy and naughty knickers under a sober work outfit IMO.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

It's what we are doing, but probably in a more vulgar manner. Pinks, crimsons, bright colours. A different one inside each cupboard or shelf within a cupboard.

It's the fancy and naughty knickers under a sober work outfit IMO.

Sounds fabulous

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

It's what we are doing, but probably in a more vulgar manner. Pinks, crimsons, bright colours. A different one inside each cupboard or shelf within a cupboard.

It's the fancy and naughty knickers under a sober work outfit IMO.

I wish I could have stuff like that. My eyesight at night or in the dark is very poor, so I have to have white interiors or I wouldn't be able to see what's in my cupboards (unless I went to the expense of having light fittings done of course). At work if someone turns a light off I have to call them to say switch the lights back on or I can't get down the stairs. They joke they are going to buy me a head torch. Some of my extended family have retinitis pigmentosa, which although I've been tested and don't have, I do have a less severe night vision problem. Genetically, I'm not good breeding stock.

Please don't quote as I'll probably delete refs to RP.

chewmylegoff

I'm not good breeding stock either. Colour blind, long sighted, no ear lobes, can't roll my tongue, and men are fundamentally just mutants anyway. On the plus side my lung capacity is 110% of normal. Win.