Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

The trouble I have every morning, as I sit here on the sofa, is that I have to close my curtains as the sun's right in my eyes

I've just been considering .... in my house ... giving the whole living room a "Beach Hut Look"

As I can never afford a beach hut (can afford to buy one, but the annual costs of ownership are about £1500 for rent on the space, so that's not feasible) ... I figured: why not turn the whole living room and the garden into a beach hut/beach scene

Given enough "oomph" I could even consider painting the end fence as a sea scene with a row of beach huts painted on that too (of course, that'd never actually happen as I can't paint one colour, never mind painting "things")

I think it sounds fabulous.

It is something you have loved for a long time and would make you smile.

What would stop you?

purch

Masomnia wrote: »

It's one of my weird little things; I change the head of my toothbrush 1st Jan, 1st April, 1st July, 1st October.

My eldest had a girlfriend who bought him a toothbrush for Christmas a couple of years ago. He wasn't impressed.

Apparently it was/is a family tradition, but then again she was a very strange girl and she was the normal one of her family :eek:

purch

PasturesNew wrote: »

The trouble I have every morning, as I sit here on the sofa, is that I have to close my curtains as the sun's right in my eyes

You could just move the sofa

Generali

Second that lir. It sounds like a lovely idea.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

It is something you have loved for a long time and would make you smile.

What would stop you?

Yes - always wanted a beach hut, love the beach, love the colours, it'd make me very happy if I can get it right ..... I'd do it "on the cheap", just adding bits and pieces over time and on the cheap.... and it'd still be minimalist, but it'd at least give me a "theme" to work towards rather than buying random items.

e.g. instead of buying a random pine/similar side table from a car boot sale for a coffee mug, I'd know I was buying a random side table, to rub down and paint white ... and I'd probably pick up some small stencils/pads to be able to put little motifs on.

Walking into that east-facing room, on a bright morning, would make me feel all chirpy and excited.

neverdespairgirl

Doozergirl wrote: »

This is nesting time. No time for resting. Time to dry clean the curtains, paint th entire house, bleach the skirting boards, polish the lightbulbs and steam clean all the spice jars ready for NDBaby!

I feel exhausted just reading that lot.....

zagubov wrote: »

To be fair, if you asked the world if it wanted Brits or clean safe water, we'd lose that popularity contest big time.

What did the Brits ever do for us, apart from...........?

PasturesNew

purch wrote: »

You could just move the sofa

You would think so, unfortunately small rooms don't work like that. Furniture is where it fits. The TV is positioned where the socket is. This room only has one wall where the sofa can go. Wall 2 has a big pillar and a radiator; wall 3 has the patio doors; wall 4 doesn't exist as it's a breakfast bar/open plan to kitchenette and blocks the entrance door and the patio doors.

Indeed, in this small room, the sofa and the TV are almost the only things in here

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yes - always wanted a beach hut, love the beach, love the colours, it'd make me very happy if I can get it right ..... I'd do it "on the cheap", just adding bits and pieces over time and on the cheap.... and it'd still be minimalist, but it'd at least give me a "theme" to work towards rather than buying random items.

e.g. instead of buying a random pine/similar side table from a car boot sale for a coffee mug, I'd know I was buying a random side table, to rub down and paint white ... and I'd probably pick up some small stencils/pads to be able to put little motifs on.

Walking into that east-facing room, on a bright morning, would make me feel all chirpy and excited.

What's wrong with that? Much better IMO.


You end up with unique pieces you like and get to appreciate and have a thing to remember about where you bought them.

For give me if I am wrong but I thought the idea was to get a house we liked living in and could afford? . Sounds perfect approach to me pn.


I home paint stuff. ( badly ) there is a cabinet in our bedroom that is a somewhat aggressively mint green ( apart from where I forgot to paint. Against the greyish mauve it zings, though I might have gone softer were I being prudent. We call it the icecream cabinet.

Plus, the fabric that is going to be my utility blind (I think) was kitchen curtains from a childhood kitchen when I was about eleven. Been bits of left overs in a truck since then. Unfashionable? Sure, but happy memories for me of the first pony I bought sticking his head through those kitchen windows and DH loves the colours in it, one of the colours reminds him of his mother.


I think your ideas sound great. Perfect for you.

Nikkster

Generali wrote: »

Second that lir. It sounds like a lovely idea.

Thirded

PasturesNew wrote: »

The trouble I have every morning, as I sit here on the sofa, is that I have to close my curtains as the sun's right in my eyes

I've just been considering .... in my house ... giving the whole living room a "Beach Hut Look"

As I can never afford a beach hut (can afford to buy one, but the annual costs of ownership are about £1500 for rent on the space, so that's not feasible) ... I figured: why not turn the whole living room and the garden into a beach hut/beach scene

Given enough "oomph" I could even consider painting the end fence as a sea scene with a row of beach huts painted on that too (of course, that'd never actually happen as I can't paint one colour, never mind painting "things")

I bet that if you looked around you could find something suitable/ that could be modified - something like those wall stickers/ forest wall papers that have been linked to here before.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I home paint stuff. ( badly ) there is a cabinet in our bedroom that is a somewhat aggressively mint green ( apart from where I forgot to paint. Against the greyish mauve it zings, though I might have gone softer were I being prudent. We call it the icecream cabinet.

Plus, the fabric that is going to be my utility blind (I think) was kitchen curtains from a childhood kitchen when I was about eleven. Been bits of left overs in a truck since then. Unfashionable? Sure, but happy memories for me of the first pony I bought sticking his head through those kitchen windows and DH loves the colours in it, one of the colours reminds him of his mother.


I think your ideas sound great. Perfect for you.

I've never painted a thing, but I was thinking of trying to do decoupage once I had some space and there's a big shed.... so I've now got a desire and an idea and a bit of appropriate space .... so it'd be mad not to give it a go.

My sibling once painted a side table the parents were throwing out - disaster.... she's not careful about anything to start with and seems to have opened a tin of gloss and slopped it about - end result was appalling.... over the years I then ended up with it and I used to cover it with a scarf... then, one day, I had a man doing some modifications in my house and asked him to just use his sander to sand off the gloss and it looked great. Of course, it needed some sort of finishing and I never got round to it before I moved ... no idea if I sent the table to the charity shop or if my sibling wanted it back as it was now good looking (unlikely though).

Before, if I spent £10 on a table it'd be a financial disaster if I'd spoilt it.... now I am in a position to splash out £5 on paint/brushes and give it a go and not feel financially ruined if I get it hideously wrong