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Are houses being dressed professionally?

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  • bertiewhite
    bertiewhite Posts: 1,904 Forumite
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    quotememiserable wrote: »
    One is never enough. Ask anyone who plays guitar how many they have. I've heard any answer from 3 to 20. Never one.

    My ex-wife once asked why I had so many guitars as they all looked the same to her and I could only play one at a time.

    So I compared them to shoes :)
  • GaleSF63
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    Whatever happened to flying ducks?
  • Doozergirl
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    bertiewhite wrote: »
    I hate the trend as well but for every one of us that does, I bet there's plenty that love it and a sale is a sale at the end of the day.

    Who cares?

    On the other hand, I viewed a cottage last week that was crammed full of model trains & railways memorabilia but it doesn't mean only spotters will be interested in buying. I was able to look past that as it will all be gone with the vendor.
    Don't ruin our fun with your sensibleness! Get out and take a "If life gives you lemons, make a gin and tonic" sign with you. :p
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  • Nebulous2
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    seven-day-weekend wrote: »
    We had an avocado bathroom suite and a carpeted bathroom in the '80s - the carpet (pub style) went up the side of the bath :rotfl::rotfl:

    No bidet though :)
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    I've just bought a house with what I describe as a four-poster avocado bath.



    Imagine a bath in a corner, with the roof over the bath lowered and a column of tiles in the open corner. The end of the bath has an arch of tiles.
  • Enterprise_1701C
    Enterprise_1701C Posts: 23,409 Forumite
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    Stumbled on this by accident, so funny, mostly consists of things I would not have in this house if you paid me. We have pictures on the walls, things like elephants, and we have one from Cape Kennedy on the stairs, we have pictures on the units in the lounge, mostly of the grandkids but also ones that we have won competitions with, we have my collection of chess sets (including a Star Trek 3D) and gifts from the kids, basically we have things that mean something to us all around (along with several book cases full of books despite my ereader lol). I am dreading the time we decide to move because we will have to get rid of a lot and there is not one thing amoung them that I want to part with.
    What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare
  • -taff
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    A work colleague was re-decorating their house and asked me if I had any 'spare' books [as if, they're ALL mine!] because they'd installed a full wall of bookcases [ imagine 5 Billy bookcases in a row ] and didn't have any books to put on them - because they didn't read books, it was just for the look....
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  • seven-day-weekend
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    -taff wrote: »
    A work colleague was re-decorating their house and asked me if I had any 'spare' books [as if, they're ALL mine!] because they'd installed a full wall of bookcases [ imagine 5 Billy bookcases in a row ] and didn't have any books to put on them - because they didn't read books, it was just for the look....

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  • PasturesNew
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    edited 13 September 2018 at 8:31AM
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    -taff wrote: »
    ... they didn't read books, it was just for the look....

    They didn't read the full manual .... without books you just buy this:

    https://www.wayfair.co.uk/home-decor/pdp/hazelwood-home-distinctive-bookcase-sidewall-10m-x-52cm-wallpaper-roll-hazl6990.html

    Cut into strips and stick it onto empty boxes :)

    Or this one if you want to look like somebody with more interests and quirks.
    https://www.wayfair.co.uk/home-decor/pdp/holden-decor-vintage-books-10m-l-x-53cm-w-roll-wallpaper-dhdl1254.html

    Should've not got the bookcases in the first place and bought this: https://www.wayfair.co.uk/home-decor/pdp/walplus-library-large-photo-books-280cm-1-piece-wall-mural-wlpl1090.html
    or this:
    https://www.wayfair.co.uk/home-decor/pdp/artgeist-home-library-21m-x-300cm-wallpaper-argt1335.html
  • -taff
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    Probably would have been cheaper.....And then they could have stuck 'Live Love Illiterate' on top of it...
    Shampoo? No thanks, I'll have real poo...
  • Enterprise_1701C
    Enterprise_1701C Posts: 23,409 Forumite
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    I seriously cannot understand people that don't have books in the house :eek: How do you live without the complete works of Shakespeare, we have loads of signed first editions, a large dictionary, various encyclopedias, various table books like The Atlas Obscura, and that is just in the lounge where we only have a small book case!
    What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare
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