Daydream fund challenge part 4

phoebe1989seb

lostinrates wrote: »

I like swan taps. I really hate that people's homes are so bland now and while the swan taps might be not my taste I love going into houses where people dare to choose something other than bland chrome. I hated having to chose chrome for our bathroom out of lack of time, choice and money.

While I enjoy the giggle of the have a look at this thread I actually admire the spirit of a lot of the homes, people who have homes that really are homes, not investments. People much like lots of us, with a different dream, living in environments that might not be normal to everyone but have been what has made THEM happy.

Long live eccentrics, and down with those who would have us all be bland for fear of not fitting in with what the great British public deem fitting.

Actually I completely agree LIR - DH and I are by far the most eccentric amongst our circle of acquaintances (and they include a couple of very dear friends with a family group of Victorian mannequins in full period costume in their hallway )

The last thing you'd call our homes is bland or boring and we've never followed fashion interiors-wise (despite DH being a designer in a past life), instead choosing what we love as opposed to what's currently trendy (such as shabby chic everything and those *funny* word signs). We adore loud Art Nouveau wallpapers/fabrics, highly unfashionable oak (brown!) furniture, lots of bullion fringing, artwork, pattern everywhere, piles of books and tons of *stuff* on every surface......I couldn't give a fig whether people approve - magnolia minimalists we ain't, lol :rotfl:

We have what we love in our home - not what is fashionable

Most people don't understand - or appreciate - our *style* (but that's their prerogative) especially when everyone these days is encouraged towards *greige* bland interior style and I'm extremely surprised our past houses haven't appeared in the aforementioned *Have a Look at This* thread......yet

Currently on Mumsnet there's a thread discussing taxidermy in houses for sale on RM - almost without exception the posters are horrified that someone (in one case the house belongs to a *celebrity*) could stoop to having a dead animal on display in their (otherwise tasteful and much coveted by the posters of that forum) home......

God forbid those posters should ever see the contents of my home then - please or offend (and I know some here will also disapprove) we have collected vintage taxidermy for twenty years, particularly butterflies - at one point we had over 200 frames hanging in our hallway. Not to everyone's taste and I quite understand why, but as long as these are vintage/antique items and not illegally imported etc, it is my choice.

At the end of the day we are all different and all like different things, whether it be swan taps, wall-words or dead tigers.....often though, imho these things are not chosen because the home-owner loves them, but because they happen to be what is *fashionable* at the time - maybe by happy accident they stumble upon something that works, otoh often buckets of cash thrown at a property has disastrous results as the person concerned has no *eye* or lacks taste.

Vive le difference though - and if someone else's taste (good or bad) cheers our day or is the starting point for an interesting discussion, then so be it.....as (one of my heroes) Oscar Wilde said "There's only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about"

phoebe1989seb

Dave - do hope baby Sam and his parents are fully recovered asap.....{{hugs}} to you and yours x

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

oooooLIR what have you started.. ive been butt up in cupboards trying different curtains,throws etc experimenting with complimentary colours...... ready to roll me finks

Glad to help

Its a lovely room.

Fwiw I think yellow is meant to provoke intelligent though and joy if one believes colour therapy. Not sure on that though ( colour therapy and what yellow represents both)

lostinrates

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

Vive le difference though - and if someone else's taste (good or bad) cheers our day or is the starting point for an interesting discussion, then so be it.....as (one of my heroes) Oscar Wilde said "There's only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about"

Agree on all fronts apart from Oscar Wilde and being talked about! I very happily fly under the radar. For example One of the few things I love about my fil is when he books restaurant tables he books them under his first name....let's say....John, instead of Smith, so when we go out we are the John family. We drive a lovely old anonymous car, and always have and always will I think. I could care less what people think or say...and that includes being talked about. If people want to talk they will, but if don't have to lay it all out for them.

Better_Days

How's Sam and DD's DH today Dave? On the mend I hope.

The thing about the 'have a look at this' thread is that it is usually about properties that people are trying to sell. And eccentricity (including fish ponds in the living room) doesn't sell as well as bland. Still looking at the taste of others certainly gives you ideas that you wouldn't get from looking at any of the 'home' magazines.

I must admit the swan taps and black tiles didn't do anything for me - they were no doubt expensive and there are things that I would rather spend on. Such as plants for the garden ;);)

Mr BD treated me to a trip to B&Q yesterday evening and I found an evergreen honeysuckle for £1 :D:D and also bought a hyacinth which will look lovely when it flowers. B&Q also has a good selection of lighting which surprised me, got a very nice little bedside lamp for £6 to replace a broken one. Place was practically empty so rather enjoyed the trip out.

We then went to get some fuel for the car and were behind a spat on the roundabout which then carried on into the petrol station. Wound down the window so I could be entertained by two grown men swearing at each other childishly :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Then to round the evening off we pottered over to the takeaway for pizza and cheesy chips. What an exciting life we lead :D:D

lostinrates

Better_Days wrote: »

How's Sam and DD's DH today Dave? On the mend I hope.

The thing about the 'have a look at this' thread is that it is usually about properties that people are trying to sell. And eccentricity (including fish ponds in the living room) doesn't sell as well as bland. Still looking at the taste of others certainly gives you ideas that you wouldn't get from looking at any of the 'home' magazines.

I must admit the swan taps and black tiles didn't do anything for me - they were no doubt expensive and there are things that I would rather spend on. Such as plants for the garden ;);)

:D:D

You can pick up swan taps fairly inexpensively to wildly expensively. They pop up a lot on my tap searches :rotfl:


In areas the people are trying to sell those taps might well be popular...who knows? Not everyone sells houses sensibly of course, but because they have had to. If we buy what suits us why the dickens do we redecorate? . Replacing one shade of bland, often, for our own . Because we accept personal taste is personal. Might as well get rid of a garish as dull, its more fun even, to make a radical change.

As I say I like the giggles, but not the sneers. Every one is entitled to their own oddities, whether its pheobe e's taxidermy, the people who have fish ponds in their sitting room, or what ever. If a house isn't selling it offers negotiation in price potentially, so there is an opportunity for buyers to buy well. And get rid of what offends them. Lots here is awful IMO,the ghastly 1970s glass and orange wood doors in the Georgian sitting room for example. One day we'll be able to replace them, until then they are a giggle. Ad you know, when the sun sets through them ...I can kind of see what the people who put them in must have loved about them. I would never say I liked them, but you'd have to be a miserable beholder not to see something glorious in the sun in that ugly glass.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

MORNING ALL,


Davesnave, hope everyone is ok soon..


Loads of people think I am odd, as I don't want nice freshly plastered magnolia walls, and carpets lol.. and I get the look of horror when I say I am not having a fitted kitchen and that we are going to have a go at cladding the insulation walls with wood from old pallets...


our ranch will be Marmite, love it or hate it...


auction went well yesterday, apart from the guy that went in with one of our pigs and kicked it in the stomach for it to stand up... if he flipping did, I verbally laid into him, and told him where to go, everyone around was just staring at me, but I didn't give a toss... and then they just glared at him as he walked off... he couldn't look at me through the auction...


hard frost yesterday and today but at least it is dry and the sun is out, just come home now from staying at the ranch.. will be going back up there again...


catch you all laters


oo before I forget...


Davesnave, is a fully grown plant ( sunflower) is 15 inches, what size pot would be suitable?
or what I mean is what size empty tin, normal bake bean size tin, or a catering size bean tin???

Better_Days

Yes, the 1970's has a lot to answer for, but did stimulate the more widespread use of colour.

Sadly a lot of buyers can't see past decor not to their taste or dated decor. The 'home improvement' programmes have in some ways made things more difficult, I suspect a lot of buyers just want to move in to 'bland' which they can live it and then change it to their own shade of bland idc. I do think it is easier to live with the wrong shade of bland, than the wrong shade of 'strong colour' - our black tiled bathroom was one of the first things to go here!

And in a triumph of replacing bland with bland here is our newly painted fireplace, from dirty cream to white Not sure about the clock, but I do have some hare plaques which I will put back under the mantlepiece when the final coat is done. Does need some colour, so I will have to ponder on what will do the trick

Davesnave

Update: Sam is improving and can see again through the infected eye, but he will still be having intravenous antibiotics administered at home for a few more days.

DD's husband is mending, DD has had some sleep, and so has DW now.

Thanks for asking.

CTC a dwarf sunflower that grows to 15" will only need a 9cm square pot (small bean tin size) for most of its life. T'other pot size is too large.

I don't sneer at the people who lived here's taste, just the way they did some things and the incredible mess they left. Sadly, some of the better things they did, construction-wise, have had to be demolished and it pains me to see decent materials being ripped out.

OTOH, we have re-used wherever possible, even down to reclaiming some blocks. :A

We did neutalise the bright red room and the orange room within a week of completion, but most of the rest stayed the same. Even paint isn't cheap these days.

lostinrates

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I guess something causes kidney stones, choille, but I can't remember what, and I don't think it's easy avoiding them if you're prone. They make you feel very unwell, but once they pass or dissolve, recovery is quick, so I've that to be grateful for.

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Are you castrated? . That can do it in livestock.....and unfiltered water.