Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

LOL ... go on, we need a laugh ... how much?

And how much value do you think it's added to your house?

Go on, what do you reckon?



http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=24oxbnn&s=8#.U4HnA_ldXws

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Go on, what do you reckon?

http://i58/tinypic.com/24oxbnn.jpg

"This web page is not available"

I'll guess the picture cost £70-120 and it's increased your house price by £18,500.

Edit: Ah, I see it now (had to replace a slash with a dot)...... ooh it's a biggun.

Edit 2: Found them online for sale... so now know how much they cost....

Maybe I should make some similar beach hut pictures, using driftwood and copper

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

"This web page is not available"

I'll guess the picture cost £70-120 and it's increased your house price by £18,500.

Edit: Ah, I see it now (had to replace a slash with a dot)...... ooh it's a biggun.

Edit 2: Found them online for sale... so now know how much they cost....

Maybe I should make some similar beach hut pictures, using driftwood and copper

See I can spot a bargain too.

DS2 (the arty one), who I expected to say something along the lines that it is interesting that they make the trees out of wood and the fence out of metal rather than vice versa, said it made the room look cold and unwelcoming. My art & crafts friend said I should be cutting out green card and making leaves for the Summer!

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

See I can spot a bargain too.

That's the thing if you're posh - people assume you paid over the odds for something. If people saw it on my wall they'd think Poundland were selling them

There's a Range just 13 miles from here... so it's not somewhere I go often (been to that retail park twice in 18 months). If you're not actually buying things for a specific need/house then there's no point going "random item shopping". They're next to Dunelm Mill and a couple of other shops I can't recall....

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's the thing if you're posh - people assume you paid over the odds for something. If people saw it on my wall they'd think Poundland were selling them

There's a Range just 13 miles from here... so it's not somewhere I go often (been to that retail park twice in 18 months). If you're not actually buying things for a specific need/house then there's no point going "random item shopping".

That's the beauty of the Range, there isn't one near here at all, so no-one is going to know where it came from or how much it cost.

I think if you mix expensive stuff with cheap stuff then you can get away with it. There's a John Lewis bought print of a Paul Klee picture on the other wall.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

I think if you mix expensive stuff with cheap stuff then you can get away with it.

That's the trouble .... all my stuff's cheap stuff - and, in my world, I'd not spend "that much" on something to go on the wall, so your "cheap stuff" is to me "an unnecessary/pricey spend"

My house in the past has been described as "bleak house" - and that was when I thought I had everything!

silvercar

LydiaJ wrote:

I also need to replace my vacuum cleaner and DVD player, both of which have been on their last legs for quite some time and have now finally completely died. Any suggestions from the NP?

Henry cleaner seems far more robust than anything I have had before.

For a DVD player I would consider getting a PS3/ PS4 they both can act as a DVD player and give you access to iplayer etc and your son will be very appreciative.

Jazee

LydiaJ - I recently bought a vax. Upsides, brilliant for picking up dog hair and is bagless. Downsides, heavy and the brushes underneath continue spinning when you are using the attachments which means having to stand the vac on a rug or similar to stop it wearing away the hard floors.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

One chair - looks plastic... called a Barcelona chair and costs over £1000k.

The Barcelona chair is a beautiful chair, but it requires a certain type of house: very minimalist, very stylish. I didn't see the programme, but wouldn't put it with any of the stuff you've described.

It's actually a piece of commercial furniture. It dates from the time that architects would design furniture to fill their buildings (as did the likes of Le Corbusier, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Frank Lloyd-Wright). In that respect it was designed by Mies van der Rohe for the German pavilion at the Great Exposition in Barcelona in 1929.

The other thing I don't like about the programme is that they use knock-offs. The real ones are sold under licence in the UK by Knoll and cost significantly more than £1000. Like five or six times that much. I have very little designer furniture in my house (I do have an Eames Chair) but would never have a knock-off, because an afficionado would only need take one look at it and know straight away that it was a copy. Unfortunately I don't run to that sort of budget.

If money was no object, I'd buy one of these:
http://www.johnlewis.com/vitra-noguchi-coffee-table/p380793?kpid=231802880&s_kenid=76f0f01a-bc7d-20e9-42bc-000048635d12&s_kwcid=129x45012&tmad=c&tmcampid=73

Most of my stuff isn't expensive. As silver says, one of the tricks is to mix cheaper bits with expensive ones.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

The other thing I don't like about the programme is that they use knock-offs. The real ones are sold under licence in the UK by Knoll and cost significantly more than £1000. Like five or six times that much. I have very little designer furniture in my house (I do have an Eames Chair) but would never have a knock-off, because an afficionado would only need take one look at it and know straight away that it was a copy.

I'd choose something based on it meeting a functional need - and me liking the look of it (or finding it the least offensive of the cheapest 2-3)..... as for an afficionado ... [a] one will never come to my house when they see everything else they'll know I know it's a knock off and that I don't care

An afficionado would describe my taste as "honest" ...... it's not pretending to be something it's not