Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

lostinrates

Any one here used suede effect paint?


Sparkly corner is a suede effect paint on the inside. But the inside of a small cabinet that gets little wear and tear and the inside of a front hall way and stairs is a different proposition.


I'm thinking of narniafying/ sparkly cornerfying my hall this spring. The chocolate walls (hence sided effect paint because I know that's the perfect colour but also like the idea of the soft ness) and possible, in a further radical for me but longterm rather sensible move.....chalk white woodwork. (Sparkly corner has white branches in it which work well. (As well as glittery green ones ).


It means my original f and b purple concept is blasted, but on thinking about it while I love the paint (and FC has used it too!) painting all the stairs purple then decided to repaint cream or something in a few years sounds.....onerous. So something that produced less fear for redecoration in the future seems sound.



Then I'll be on the hunt for lots of those candle sconces to line the walls with for light, because it will feel like a coffin and I'll need light, gold glittery things to sparkly corner fy it.

Anyway.....

Sided paint...not worth the lack of durability in a pokey hall and stair area?

neverdespairgirl

POkey hall and staircase will probably mean lots of scuff marks from clumsy or careless types. So an easy-to-repaint-and-cheap-too approach might save a lot of angst?

tomterm8

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

There was a whole lot of the "Christ killers" stuff going on in the Middle Ages

Well, England did what was probably historically the only completely successful pogrom against the Jews in the middle ages. So we've got a rather spotty history on this. (Incidentally, they only let Jews back into England because some rather odd geezer decided that Jews had to be in every country in the world before the coming Kingdom of heaven could, well, come )

But my personal theory is that the reason the Jews have historically done so badly is because they've looked odd, never really had enough density in any place to be too dangerous to attack, and never had a country or army that would disuade people from picking on them.

I think people naturally pick on easy to target groups that seem different from themselves when times are tough.

tomterm8

My instinct is that hallway paint tends to need to be light to bounce natural lighting around the house. Suede paint is darkish.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

My instinct is that hallway paint tends to need to be light to bounce natural lighting around the house. Suede paint is darkish.

Its light now. It looks dingy and grubby. Its a dark hallway and in the future we will lose a window and it will be darker. Actually, we lost a window light in the bathroom stuff too.

My thinking now is to go dark. Indulgently and mysteriously so. And let it glint where light does fall, light bouncing off the new old shiny things I will buy.

tomterm8

Paint, even suede paint, isn't that expensive so I'd give it a go and then decide later on if you like it. It's the only way to really find out.

Tahlullah

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

One of the lovely things that England gave the world is the Blood Libel - the idea still entertained in some parts of the world that Jews use the blood of local children to make their special Passover foods. A particularly mad idea, as Jewish food laws ban the use of blood in any cooking, even if its from Kosher animals.

Wow, here I am showing my ignorance again!

What food do you cook which includes the use of blood, apart from black pudding?

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Any one here used suede effect paint?

No, but I seem to recall a conversation where it was used in one of my former offices and very difficult to paint over when they wanted a change. I don't know anything beyond that, but may be worth looking in to. Again, I don't know what paint it was either, so some may be easier than others.

neverdespairgirl

Tahlullah wrote: »

Wow, here I am showing my ignorance again!

What food do you cook which includes the use of blood, apart from black pudding?

It's not so much food that specifically uses blood - you need to get the blood out of normal meat for it to be Kosher. So, when you kill an animal, in order for it to be Kosher (or Halal, same rules, I think) you need to drain all the blood out of the animal quickly.

Some meat, I think you need to soak to get the blood out of it, in case there's any left. I can't remember all the details, though.

lostinrates

Tahlullah wrote: »

Wow, here I am showing my ignorance again!

What food do you cook which includes the use of blood, apart from black pudding?

Gentile blood money, girl children and womenfolk. ( oh brother. ););)


Btw, has any one else not nice they are selling chrain sort of stuff as a normal non 'ethnic' food now? Not called chrain ( of course) . Yum yum. I LOVE it.



I told the story here about my mother's Polish cleaner and DH, right?