Nice People 13: Nice Save

PasturesNew

I presume there's a special "staircase" cut for the trees, or do you end up cutting 1/2 of it off and having tree trunks at the bottom - and the sun/canopy at the top of the stairs?

Else, would you be cutting a diagonal, then dashing into the cupboard under the stairs with the leftovers and using it on that wall too, shame to waste it and all that.

How about leaving the stairs painted - and using this idea to have pictures of small flowers growing across each rise?
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/30/e8/07/30e807e477f2adbea7da737031b9f95e.jpg

Or go mad and have transparent photos on perspex, with lighting behind each one.

Do I now win the "Naff as You Can" Award?

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I presume there's a special "staircase" cut for the trees, or do you end up cutting 1/2 of it off and having tree trunks at the bottom - and the sun/canopy at the top of the stairs?


yes, just cutting out the stair 'diagonal '
Else, would you be cutting a diagonal, then dashing into the cupboard under the stairs with the leftovers and using it on that wall too, shame to waste it and all that.

How about leaving the stairs painted - and using this idea to have pictures of small flowers growing across each rise?
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/30/e8/07/30e807e477f2adbea7da737031b9f95e.jpg

my connection is slow and your link is not loading for me annoyingly. I love interestingly painted stairs, but we need a runner on these. RP stamps up them noisily and dog dog slides on them, I find it easier without covering, but, i accept I find it easier to adapt on some things.

Or go mad and have transparent photos on perspex, with lighting behind each one.

Beautiful idea I think. Doesn't match my vision for here though.
Do I now win the "Naff as You Can" Award?

Nope, must try much harder.

zagubov

vivatifosi wrote: »

Me too! They are way nicer now though. Last time I went to the Odeon it St Albans I got chewing gum on the butt of my trousers.

For those who haven't been since the refurb, this is what the Rex looks like downstairs (upstairs it has more conventional seating, but bigger and more leg room than a normal cinema):

http://therexberkhamsted.com/?page_id=140

And this is the Odyssey:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q-ilgWPkorM/VHmcSrC_C6I/AAAAAAAAAc8/sRXGK3mjZXw/s1600/IMG_3338.jpg

They are both stunning. I can't wait to see the Odyssey for real.

When I used to work in West London there was a great cinema filled with sofas

There's another really smart one opened up in Barnes probably convenient for Chewie for when he can get a babysitter.


Two of the most convenient cinemas I used to go to have closed down now and that seems to be a one-way process unfortunately.

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

When I used to work in West London there was a great cinema filled with sofas

There's another really smart one opened up in Barnes probably convenient for Chewie for when he can get a babysitter.


Two of the most convenient cinemas I used to go to have closed down now and that seems to be a one-way process unfortunately.

The electric!

Cinema opened near here recently and we toddled off and were reminded how much nicer watching films at home is. It IS fun going out! but at home the loos come with a pause button on the film! making out during the film is ok! and not gross because the people infront of or behind you aren't doing it, and watching the film naked is also ok.

Oh, and the volume is right. I have hearing problems at times veer between struggle and oversensitive......and the cinema can be very uncomfortable. What it must do for young ears at that volume level .....shudder. I never struggle to hear in the cinema but the noise is often so loud it hurts a lot and I cannot distinguish the words because my ears are so battered!:o

What I did learn when we went to the cinema was I can eat popcorn. Its become an almost default food choice for me .


Independent cinema a town over is very sweet. It is above other shops and the stairs up smell of pee. You get small comes of pop corn and drinks like gin and tonic. Old style flip down red velvet chairs and che apish tickets.

But.......while its great if you can walk home, no one can drink and drive, so the cute bar only suits very locals. Lack of stink of junk food is hugely appreciated. But after about an hour people start shifting as the sweet chairs aren't that comfortable, so instead of avoiding eating noise, you avoid fidget noise.

Sofas, a community or style is a good way for Indis to go IMO. There has to be something that's better about going out than staying in for me. It loses immediately on money and convenience and probably comfort, lol, so.......make it an experience, enjoyable. Going to a multiplex just doesn't cut it for me as an experience. Last time it did was to see avatar, a new 3d film. Before that? Um.......maybe......schindlers list? and then, going to see batman underage.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I can probably name every film I've ever seen at a cinema.

1960s: Mary Poppins, Bambi, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
1970s: Jaws (maybe), Stardust (David Essex), Saturday Night Fever
1980s-2000: Titanic, Cocktail, LockStock and 2 Smoking Barrels
2000s: Saving Private Ryan, Ocean's Eleven, Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory

Now, I might have forgotten 1-2 or so, but I've not been often really.

I used to vomit a lot at cinemas as a kid:o.

At uni we used to go in our pjs so we could go straight to bed afterwards :o.

I just used to find it hard to sit still for that long.

ukmaggie45

While your bluebell wood looks lovey, LiR, it's just a bit too much Broadchurch for me at the moment! :eek:

I'm toying with getting this made into a blind for our bathroom when (if! ) we sell old home.

Compton Verney by ukmaggie45, on Flickr

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

I used to vomit a lot at cinemas as a kid:o.

At uni we used to go in our pjs so we could go straight to bed afterwards :o.

I just used to find it hard to sit still for that long.

When I was at uni in '76 I joined the film club. They used to take over the main hall and put on two films a night twice a week. You had to pay a token price to get in, next to nothing, so I really wallowed in it, as I'd never lived near a cinema before.

The great thing was, (and maybe a few NPs can remember this) in the early 70s the cinema was dying due to TV and the cinemas were turning into bingo halls at a massive rate.

Hollywood rallied round and in '75 tried to revive itself by abandoning double features and B movies and producing blockbusters like Jaws, Star Wars etc. and by heck the effort paid off.

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

When I was at uni in '76 I joined the film club. They used to take over the main hall and put on two films a night twice a week. You had to pay a token price to get in, next to nothing, so I really wallowed in it, as I'd never lived near a cinema before.

The great thing was, (and maybe a few NPs can remember this) in the early 70s the cinema was dying due to TV and the cinemas were turning into bingo halls at a massive rate.

Hollywood rallied round and in '75 tried to revive itself by abandoning double features and B movies and producing blockbusters like Jaws, Star Wars etc. and by heck the effort paid off.

In the sticks we get 'village hall cinema' quite a lot. In a village hall, sometimes a pub, or a scout hut. They tend to be more things veered to the older community than say, the latest marvel offering . Its very social, neighbourly and community. I watched one of The Lord of the rings films, first one I guess, in a scout hut. ( so out huts tend to hVe younger demographic films. And yes, I watched it with a bunch of kids )

ukmaggie45

vivatifosi wrote: »

Do you have other ME or immune diseases in your family Maggie?

I ask because I had ME in the 1980s and early 1990s but now normal. It was a long way back though. We have other problems in the female line of my family, such as fibromyalgia, polymyalgia and lupus. I've often wondered if there's a link.

So far as I know there wasn't really anything in close relatives. One of my Dad's ? half cousins ? had MS, but his family is ridiculously complicated as my Grandmother was my Grandfather's 3rd wife (her oldest stepdaughter was older than her!). So have never really managed to get to grips with blood lines.

My Mum's family apparently were all hospitalised for TB, something I only found out about after her death. My step-aunt told me, may or may not be true - my uncle had dementia of some kind, so not sure how accurate his memory would have been. I know Mum's oldest brother died of TB, and her youngest brother died at about 11/12, but not sure if that TB as well or something else. It was something Mum never really spoke about. Other than that she and both my maternal grandparents had Type 2 diabetes. Touch wood I've at least avoided that so far!

Was tested for Lupus when saw the consultant who diagnosed me. He didn't think it likely as ESR was normal (a measure of inflammation), but he kindly checked to set my mind at rest.

I think auto-immune stuff such as lupus does tend to hit women more than men. Possibly because our immune systems needs "switching off" to a certain extend during pregnancy so foetus has a chance to develop and isn't got rid off by immune system (though that happens with Rhesus Factor and some other blood ones too).

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Doozer girl? Anyone else who fancies chipping in.

Pretty sure I'm leaning towards ( at a later date after extension done.....or maybe now and worth redoing...? ) wallpapering with a photo image of bluebell woods on one side of the hallway.

Ceiling lights are morrocan and jewelled. I pretty sure I will be havig to add wall lights for sufficient light requirement, How many and where I don't know. ATM staircase is in process of being stripped and I think I will leave wood and put runner on ( colour undecided....yellow sounds fun, like a yellow brick road...but will be lead by design of rest of hallway). But I cannot seem to reconcile to rest of paint colour. White doesn't work. The hallway is dark and is going to get darker...pale colours look dingy.

part from 'beige' or 'mushroomy' I feel low on inspiration. Any one want to chip in?

copper?

Mmm. Copper walls. Depends on the green in the mural, maybe. Or silver. That would reflect the light coming through the trees quite well. And the purple is delicious.

Nothing wrong with a dark wild mushroom risotto colour. Keeping it earthy.

Get the mural up, then have a think. It's not so expensive that some of it can't be redone. Can't live for tomorrow.