The KonMarie method

GreyQueen

Yeah, I recall earwigging on a convo between antique dealers at least 30 years ago where they were complaining that they were having to ship the brown furniture to Scandinavia, as all they could sell here was pine.

I'm rather partial to mahogany. In fact, my sitting-room furniture, all cheap blockboard stuff, is in mahogany lookie-likee veneer. I always tell people that my home had veneerial disease, lol.

This c-of-d I'm wanting to replace with something taller and narrower (and preferably darker) is white melamine. Cast-off from the parental home, but now I've realised that it's hosting 50% fresh air in its height, I am wanting it replaced with something more practical.

rosie383

Veneerial disease lol. I love it!
Who needs to watch comedians on TV when you can come on to OS for a giggle whenever needed?

PixieDust

I have now finished samosaing all tights and pop socks......I am inordinately pleased with myself

GreyQueen

In an ideal world, I would like antique furniture, but as the flat is very small, and furniture here subject to all sorts of wings and dings as part of everyday life, what I have is chazzer-sourced blockboard. It looks OK but I don't have any great emotional attachment to it.

I would like something better for the bedroom; there is no heat in there so it wouldn't be abusive to a decent piece, as it would to have it in the sitting-room where it would be beside radiators. I shall enjoy my relaxed hunting for the next thing.

Righty, and so to retire from the interwebulator for the night, a thriller is calling my name. I could wash the dishes, I should wash the dishes, but I'm a [STRIKE]lazy bovine[/STRIKE] err rebel without a clause (sic) and will skive.

Once I've found out who the villian is, I may wash the dishes.

littlesnuggy

I'm ashamed to say I have just filled two huge bags with 34 pairs of shoes for the charity shop! And, not sure if this is a worse admission, but I've kept hold of around the same number.

I've also got 5 bags of clothes, and still have several drawers to go through.

My bedroom and spare room are currently looking like a jumble sale, but I'm determined to keep going and getting rid of all the stuff to go out before I put all the stuff I'm keeping back away.

rosie383

GreyQueen, I am feeling a bit like you. I have looked at the dishes a few times, but they aren't calling to me as much as a cuddle and bedtime story with my LO (I know she should be in bed, but she slept really late this morning and we have been busy!).
I am definitely more of a morning person, so I will be up before dawn happily washing dishes and folding more stuff!!

somerandom

grrrr found more summer clothes in a trunk that I thought only had bedclothes in it (& remembered that there's even more hidden away in the loft! ) Kondoed them but this was all my good stuff so only got rid of a small proportion of this time. Summer Clothes now (mostly) in large suitcase with no room to spare. I think I'll have to do a phase 2 in the Spring and get the whole lot out together as she suggests. How did I let it get so out of hand....?

penguine

I have finally discovered the happiness that is a collection of samosa-d carrier bags. I put off doing this because we have one of those carrier bag storage things under the sink and it seemed to work well, but it was large and full and amazingly, once samosa-d, the bags now fit in an empty tissue box! So the carrier bag storage thing can now go to the charity shop this week.

lostinrates

GreyQueen wrote: »

Well said, LiR.

I am relaxedly shopping for a replacement for a melamine c-of-d. Was in various secondhand stores on Saturday and was very taken by some Georgian pieces. One chest-on-chest was half the size of my bedroom and taller than I am (and that's nearly 6 ft). Totally unsuitable but very handsome.

But there are many handsome pieces of furniture out there which were going strong when you grandaddy was a twinkle in his daddy's eye and which will see you and your heirs good service.

I'm no fan of IK!A furniture, and other stuff of the same ilk, I think it's throwing money and resources down the pan.

Lots of markets when I was at uni were selling huge old wardrobs cheaply and people ripped them up and burned them as firewood as they are too big for modern rooms. . The doors would be great on built in cupboard doos in many homes, more durable and character full.

The thing is, plenty of tiny cottages have always existed and lots of small pieces of furniture. They might not have the glamour or finesse of fine pieces of 'big house' furniture, and current fashion means they are more expensive than they have been, but they are beautiful piece and have had love scrubbed into them over the years. Things that are brown rather than pine in cottage sizes still can be found as bargains, though more and more people are after them to paint and turn them into shabby chic pieces.

System

GreyQueen and Bigjenny, thankyou both for your replies, that's really useful and I shall delve further when I get to my komono