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Shabby Chic Thread?

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  • HoneyPie_2
    HoneyPie_2 Posts: 181 Forumite
    Thanks Iceandream.... that makes sense now!!
  • maypole
    maypole Posts: 1,816 Forumite
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    Right Folks let's get back to the £299.99 Ebay Kitchen Larder saga.
    Remember the one?
    Well I checked today to see if it had been relisted. It hasn't, but to my surprise feedback had been left! :eek:
    Surely it wasn't a genuine buyer?!
    Well, Sherlock here took a look -
    feedback for the buyer was left 31/3/08 at 18.34,
    feedback for the seller was left 31/3/08 at 18.37.
    Wow a coincidence? I think not. :mad:
    Seems he bid himself then.
    What an idiot - he'll have to pay fee's now - all to save face! :rolleyes:

    *disclaimer* of course it could be that both buyer and seller happened to leave feedback within minutes of each other..... lol


    Very fishy, allegedly:rotfl:
  • COOLTRIKERCHICK
    COOLTRIKERCHICK Posts: 10,510 Forumite
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    i think i am going to still keep the listing on my watch list, as maybe, just maybe it might be listed again in the future :rolleyes: lol.....

    or is just me being totally thinking it was a shill bid:cool:
    Work to live= not live to work
  • Natty68
    Natty68 Posts: 3,506 Forumite
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    The 60 minute makeover show has just finished doing a Shabby Chic effect bedroom and a couple of other rooms. Although I didn't see how it was all done I have managed to tape the showing of the rooms.

    I think it might be repeated, checked for tonight and unfortunately it isn't repeated tonight :(
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  • Natty68 wrote: »
    The 60 minute makeover show has just finished doing a Shabby Chic effect bedroom and a couple of other rooms. Although I didn't see how it was all done I have managed to tape the showing of the rooms.

    I think it might be repeated, checked for tonight and unfortunately it isn't repeated tonight :(

    I just caught the end of the show and saw the young girls' Shabby Chic effect bedroom. I preferred her room to the sickly brown parents room:o .

    If I were them I'd either swap rooms or at least paint over the dark brown walls with a lighter colour.
  • triage999
    triage999 Posts: 239 Forumite
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    Natty68 wrote: »
    The 60 minute makeover show has just finished doing a Shabby Chic effect bedroom and a couple of other rooms. Although I didn't see how it was all done I have managed to tape the showing of the rooms.

    I think it might be repeated, checked for tonight and unfortunately it isn't repeated tonight :(


    Great thing about the internet is you can watch repeats via their website :) here is today's episode!
    http://www.itv.com/CatchUp/30DayCatchUp/default.html?ViewType=2&Filter=01/04/2008
  • vivw_2
    vivw_2 Posts: 2,230 Forumite
    triage999 wrote: »
    Great thing about the internet is you can watch repeats via their website :) here is today's episode!
    http://www.itv.com/CatchUp/30DayCatchUp/default.html?ViewType=2&Filter=01/04/2008

    Thanks for that. Guess who is now watching tv on her pc
    We don't need to do it perfectly - good enough is exactly that GOOD ENOUGH.


  • Ellidee
    Ellidee Posts: 6,216 Forumite
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    Well I have to say I watched the 'reveal' of 60 mm and can't say I really liked much of it. The bed and bedspread ( & she already had the bedspread !) were nice and the white furniture in the daughter's room - but the rest not for me.
    Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. William James
  • Seakay
    Seakay Posts: 4,270 Forumite
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    Yes but if you actually had it done you'd have £15k-£20K of stuff which you can keep or sell, and a few tins of paint to go over anything you don't like isn't going to be much.
  • ANNEGEDDES
    ANNEGEDDES Posts: 911 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Not setting myself any comp targets this year, didnt seem to work last year!!! £120.98/£2008
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    Thanks to all that take the time to post
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