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

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

I love the mural walls n the bedroom...but the white ceiling ruins it IMO.

Also love the garden, the fabric on the chairs in the toile dining room( but dislike the toile which is odd, I really love toile usually). I like the white panelled room. Its a bit of hit and Miss decoratively really. I like it though, very much. It has personality. I'd rather dislike something but admire its guts than feel kinda 'meh' about it.

The garden is lovely. I really dislike the dining rooms, particularly the one with the big glass top over the top of the tablecloth. I don't like those. The other one I like the modern fabric on the chairs but feel it doesn't go with the wallpaper.

Still, what does it matter what I think, 100% not his target market.

Spirit_2

Doozergirl wrote: »

I like lots about it. The gentlemanly drawing room is plush and I like the vaulted ceiling that's been wallpapered. I don't like the coral colour of the toile room and I don't like toile; it reminds me if the stalkerish landlady we had.

I feel the same about decor, but you know that. I'd prefer almost anything that had been done with conviction over magnolia boxes or trying too hard to be conventional. That house could take anything. The mural is beautiful - would look good in your house! Would be awful in a new build.

I like the vaulted ceiling, drawing room and the bedroom - although not the mural so much.

The rest was just too much but each to their own.

In the garden the benches against the hedges looked like they were for 'the look' but bl**dy uncomfortable and nothing sociable about them. I like function as well as form.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I don't like those. The other one I like the modern fabric on the chairs but feel it doesn't go with the wallpaper.

Still, what does it matter what I think, 100% not his target market.

I like that it doesn't go with the wall paper. Its a particular bonus for me of the choice. Its something I love in design and struggle to do myself because like LLB I have a tawdry and tacky and down market secret desire to over match. The deliberate Mis match is beautifully unsettling.

Maybe the toile wouldn't be so bad if the lampshade wasn't toile too. I actually really think the light there is uninspired full stop.m I am really struggling with it and I DO like toile.

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

I like the vaulted ceiling, drawing room and the bedroom - although not the mural so much.

The rest was just too much but each to their own.

In the garden the benches against the hedges looked like they were for 'the look' but bl**dy uncomfortable and nothing sociable about them. I like function as well as form.

I don't actually love the benches, though love their placing. I can sit in the one on the endin the shade while DH sits in the one in the middle in the sun and dog dog has the one on the end.

Its just dog dog and me today. We normally love these days when its just her and me but today she is so cold that she has just curled up under a quilt and doesn't want to see or speak to any body, She didn't even bark at Mole Valley Farmer delivery.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

I like that it doesn't go with the wall paper. Its a particular bonus for me of the choice. Its something I love in design and struggle to do myself because like LLB I have a tawdry and tacky and down market secret desire to over match. The deliberate Mis match is beautifully unsettling.

Maybe the toile wouldn't be so bad if the lampshade wasn't toile too. I actually really think the light there is uninspired full stop.m I am really struggling with it and I DO like toile.

It's just the antithesis of my own personal style. I put up with bad design here (artex walls for example, need to get plasterer in to skim), but my ideal house has no wallpaper and perfectly flat painted walls and ceilings. Still, been here seven years so far and there's lots to do as I liked nothing about the house other than location when I moved in. It is a disappointingly slow process, mainly because we've chucked money at paying down mortgage rather than interiors. Still, we'll get there one day.

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

The garden is lovely. I really dislike the dining rooms, particularly the one with the big glass top over the top of the tablecloth. I don't like those. The other one I like the modern fabric on the chairs but feel it doesn't go with the wallpaper.

Still, what does it matter what I think, 100% not his target market.

I don't mind the modern fabric (as opposed to liking it). There is something about the mis-match that doesn't do it for me though.

Doozer - can't find anything on rightmove/ zoopla re purchase price, but according to cotswolds.info it was last for sale with a guide price of £1.3million in 2007. And the Llewelyn-Bowens moved in 2007...
http://www.cotswolds.info/famouspeople/laurence_bowen.shtml

vivatifosi

Nikkster wrote: »

I don't mind the modern fabric (as opposed to liking it). There is something about the mis-match that doesn't do it for me though.

Doozer - can't find anything on rightmove/ zoopla re purchase price, but according to cotswolds.info it was last for sale with a guide price of £1.3million in 2007. And the Llewelyn-Bowens moved in 2007...
http://www.cotswolds.info/famouspeople/laurence_bowen.shtml

I wonder how that compares to the local benchmark in terms of the percentage increase and how much he has spent doing it up.

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

Its occurred to me (and mentioned on another thread maggie reads) that at my DEFRA spot check they didn't bother to check my ditches. I was ticked off for the state of my hedges but the ditches weren't even looked at.bit lax.

Defra? I thought the RPA did that.

We keep as far away as possible from those people. To the extent of not claiming money. But even so they still manage to worm their way in to check on sheep tags.

Defra and the RPA are two reasons British farming is going to RIP.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

Defra? I thought the RPA did that.

We keep as far away as possible from those people. To the extent of not claiming money. But even so they still manage to worm their way in to check on sheep tags.

Defra and the RPA are two reasons British farming is going to RIP.

Yeah,rpA, that's the fellas . :eek::o

Losing my marbles Tom term. :eek:

We got a spot check triggered on purchase because we took half an acre OUT of claim. We wanted to take cake and veg plot etc out of claim area because later if we go for soil association we will not go for that in that area either I think, so we thought we'd keep it simple. However, we thought we'd be on accelerated soil association but now I'd reported to spraying we'd be full two years plus I'm spraying this year.

PasturesNew

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

So what did you think? I'm a bit worried that the spring they found (possibly before you turned over) might be a problem at present! But the place gave me the heebie jeebies - so much work. And such a weird place. :eek:

I thought mistake to lose the atrium where the work was done - originally it was staying, but later they decided to make it into 2 storeys... I think the planners were seriously wrong to allow that. After all, that was the nerve centre and reason for the building.

Suspect it might all be a bit too big for you? (rolls eyes in a friendly manner) 15 bedrooms to come eventually and all that...

I think most of the people on these shows are crazy, but it's interesting to see what they do with such weird buildings! :rotfl:

I didn't really watch it; had it on, but it looked dull.

I do think that sometimes people get too carried away with these things - throwing money to the wind just for some bizarre ideas they've formed from some romantic notion of building their own.

Hated the look of it. Ridiculous waste of money. Idiots really

I'd probably have preferred to build a small place alongside it - and open it up as a tourist attraction