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Thanks POLLY, the seal I left here on Friday seems to have found its way back into the river and I have He Who Knows back again, much nicer!

Softstuff

What a lovely list of accomplishments Fuddle :T I wish I was nearer to give you a hand with the skirt pattern, I had a couple of years dressmaking tuition as a child each Sunday from an elderly lady. With things like that, being shown is handy, though your determination means you'll get there anyway.

The concert sounded lovely MrsLW, quite envious.

So much activity happening I'm ashamed of my recent laziness! Yesterday consisted of googling fabric for the chair and getting another retaining wall quote. Today I must pull my finger out and actually get something done.

greenbee

Softstuff wrote: »

Today I must pull my finger out and actually get something done.

I need to do that too... I really should get quotes for having blinds made as I'm clearly not going to get round to it myself... :cool:

At least my builders have started and are making progress. Although we were a bit distracted by the JCB-yellow paint under the wallpaper (which appears to have been put up in 2002 as the date was written on the wall in white paint). Why anyone would choose that colour, even in 1989 (when the house was built - and we know it was the original colour as there was no mist coat and nothing else beneath it) is beyond our understanding :cool:

Softstuff

greenbee wrote: »

I need to do that too... I really should get quotes for having blinds made as I'm clearly not going to get round to it myself... :cool:

At least my builders have started and are making progress. Although we were a bit distracted by the JCB-yellow paint under the wallpaper (which appears to have been put up in 2002 as the date was written on the wall in white paint). Why anyone would choose that colour, even in 1989 (when the house was built - and we know it was the original colour as there was no mist coat and nothing else beneath it) is beyond our understanding :cool:

The first flat I renovated was a repossession. When I bought it I hadn't really seen it (it was so cheap). On getting the keys I went for a good look around. It was over 3 floors. Heading to the top floor I was surprised to see a glow on the landing, because I thought the electricity was off, it being a repossession and all. When I got upstairs I realised the glow was coming from the main bedroom. It had lime green walls, lime green ceiling and lime green carpet :eek: it took 6 coats of paint to cover that ceiling.

After that, people's design choices don't surprise me much. Our new house is painted every wall in the same "depression grey". I almost prefer lime green, at least they're trying to be lively :rotfl:

Hard_Up_Hester

I once moved into a house where the back room was lime green and the front room orange, the painter had obviously changed their mind about the brightness of the shade after one coat and added some white to the colours. But couldn't be bothered to empty the room again as there were furniture shaped patches of the brighter shade on the main walls and along the mantle piece they had even painted around ornaments and letters etc.

Softstuff

Love it Hester. A room painted the same would be worth thousands at an art gallery

mardatha

I was living in Edinburgh and desperate to get out - I'm not a city dweller.
So I applied for houses in the most unlikely places, some I had only been to a few times when I was a child- anything, just to get out to somewhere I could see hills and sheep
One council - Scottish Borders - accepted me but said there was no reasonable hope that I'd get a house in the forseeable future. Five months later I was offered a house, a lovely wee cottage in a terrace of 6, tucked up a wee back lane off the road.
Went down to view it and oh my god !! It had been used as a decant house for when the rest in the village were being modernised, and also as a bothy for the workers. but I wanted out of the city and it had a beautiful big garden, was on a hill that faced south, and I was having it.
Hubby mate then was a painter and decorator- so he went down every nioght after work for a week and the two of them painted the whole house, I didnt see it as kids were wee then. They would say things like "do you like green?" and I said "yes its my fav colour go for it" Then the same with "how about pink?" etc,
Well the day I moved in, I didnt knowwhether to laugh or cry. The livingroom was deep vibrant new grass green.... the hall and stairs was puke pink, the bedrooms buttercup yellow, more of the green, and navy blue. Took me 6 years to get it nice and then we moved.... lol

silvasava

Apart from the Orange front door, slime lime hall with a purple carpet the other horror was the bathroom. Yellow bath, basin & loo, two rows of black tiles round the bath and above the basin. Then half tiled in pale blue! With salmon pink emulsion on the rest dotted with seahorse transfers and a piece of carpet left over from the sitting room that had every colour imaginable with a sort of black wrought iron pattern over the top. If you didn't feel sick before you went in...........:rotfl:

ivyleaf

silvasava wrote: »

Apart from the Orange front door, slime lime hall with a purple carpet the other horror was the bathroom. Yellow bath, basin & loo, two rows of black tiles round the bath and above the basin. Then half tiled in pale blue! With salmon pink emulsion on the rest dotted with seahorse transfers and a piece of carpet left over from the sitting room that had every colour imaginable with a sort of black wrought iron pattern over the top. If you didn't feel sick before you went in...........:rotfl:

It makes me feel a bit queasy just visualising it Loving hearing the paint stories!

Lyn That Zebra is so cute :A Glad you had a lovely time and that HWK is on the mend.

DD1 went to her GP yesterday with pain in her side, was told to go to A & E, and found herself being put on IV antibiotics after a scan :eek: She's been told she can come home tomorrow as she's so much better this morning, and was so happy to hear that that she "let three students prod her in gratitude"

nursemaggie

My parents moved house 50 years ago. The hallway was quite small but had 5 doors in it. I went to help them move. When we got to the new house we opened the front door to find 5 bright yellow doors.

As soon as the contents of the shed arrived dad was in old clothes sanding down the doors with the removal men trying to get round him. He had already bought white paint just not realised how bad they were.

Mum got on the bus to go to work a few days later. A woman came up to her and said. "You're new here have you just moved into the house with the bright yellow doors?"

Mum said " They're not yellow any more my husband painted them straight away."

We moved into one house. The dining room had wallpaper with huge purple flowers, the living room bright yellow flowers, DDs bedroom we were not sure what colour it was but it was covered in big black footprints all over the walls and ceiling. One of the other bedrooms also had big Purple flowers on a different wallpaper.

A few days after we moved in my ex is doing his paperwork in his study. He asked "what colour do you think Wedgewood is?"

"I don't know pale blue maybe. Why?"

"There's a new tin of paint called Wedgwood in the coal shed. I can't work in that study I feel sick."

The study was lime green walls with moss green paintwork. He painted it that night. He was a salesman and he finally got his order in around 3am.

At one time this flat has had pillar box red on all walls in this room and bright yellow in the bathroom.

Hope your DD is better soon ivyleaf.