There aren’t even any pictures of houses with graffiti on the inside, dogshit on the floor or floor to ceiling “specialist” pornography.
I spent 2 summers refurbing such flats for social tennents. I know where your at. Baths full of human feaces are more common than you'd think. Was essentially full hazmat to go in there.
Good money though if you can do it quickly.
Well when we talk about decorating we're actually talking about otherwise sane choices rather than slum living.
Good money though if you can do it quickly.
I'd imagine you would want to given limited lung capacity.
Martin - glad someone picked that up 🙂
Aye – but in many years time will the F&B colours be as dated as 70s stuff is now?
Yes.
Everything that is fashionable now, will look as dated when the next trends come.
The reason some houses look dated, but not worn/grubby is there's a point in all our lives when you just don't care about that sort of stuff anymore, I thought reached that point years ago, but my Wife who is a bit younger than me, and well... cares about stuff hadn't. So I try to steer her away from anything too permanent or expensive to replace that's too 'on trend' because in a few years she'll hate it. It's a funny old world.
It's funny, I've been obsessing about the colour of the living room, because for some reason I've decided that after painting it all about 6 months ago, it's a big boring. It's a HUGE room, not because it's a big house, but because it's a 70s semi with a big long, combined living / dining room which would have had some horrible big sliding glass doors in it year ago. I wanted to paint the living room in one colour and leave the dining room whatever marketing name of magnolia it is now.
After 5/6 taster pots of, yes, shades of grey, she's settled on a F&B grey for just one wall, to my mind it's neither fish nor fowl, it's not dark enough to be that sort of 'Heritage look' which I sort of had in mind, but then, it's not a heritage house, and it's not light enough to be 'just paint'. It's just boring. It reminds me of the Spitting Imagine puppet of John Major.
Despite "not caring about that sort of stuff" it seems I do... so, and I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but I've been reading up on new trends, lots of bright colours coming according to Home and Gardens (as well as ****ing grey).
It seems green is THE colour for 2021.
https://www.homesandgardens.com/news/paint-trends-206929
I've thought of all of this as I type it, time for a convo with the Wife I think.
Micro en-suite shower rooms / bathrooms and barn sized open plan living, dining, kitchens...
Don’t use the estate emulsion from F&B as it’s very very Matt and chalky finish and isn’t very durable – but it isn’t meant to be, it’s supposed to be a traditional finish. The modern emulsion from them is good. Yes it’s expensive but you generally need a lot less coats so works out similar in price sometimes.
I'm using some modern emulsion (grey obvs) for a current job. £73 for 2.5 litres! 😳
You could buy a car for that.
Luckily, the customer specced it.
I'm not convinced I'm getting good value when I'm buying paint from a brand that has multiple s****y high street showrooms.
Micro en-suite shower rooms / bathrooms and barn sized open plan living, dining, kitchens
This one actually makes lots of sense....not that I have an ensuite but why would you want a massive bathroom. You spend minimal time in it-unless I'm doing it wrong 🙂
can't believe no ones mentioned baths in bedrooms.
not like en-suites or the like, but a bath in your bedroom like in some boutique hotel. seems to of trickled down from the likes of grand designs and now 'normal people' appear to be doing it. why in gods name would you want a bath in your bedroom or watch your partner have a bath whilst you are in bed. it's just really weird and future generations will judge us harshly
I have been looking at houses to buy in an idle fashion - some of the interiors are utterly hideous. My fave is the faux stone fireplace thingy that runs along all of one wall at differing heights
It seems green is THE colour for 2021.
We've just done our living room in F&B Pigeon and have to say it looks fab - and I was very skeptical.
You are doing it wrong trail rat. My bathroom is even linked into the sound system with proper hi fi speakers
You are doing it wrong trail rat. My bathroom is even linked into the sound system with proper hi fi speakers
And there was me thinking my last land lord was odd for suggesting I broke the toilet through some kind of bathroom party. I guess maybe they are a thing afterall.
And there was me thinking my last land lord was odd for suggesting I broke the toilet through some kind of bathroom party.
That's also more common than you would imagine.
In buildings with communal toilets like office buildings, the correlation between broken toilet seats in cubicles and the discovery of empty vodka half-bottles above suspended ceiling tiles is surprisingly high.
It seems that bathroom parties are actually a thing.
we've just moved to a normal-sized house with a weirdly enormous bathroom that has a spa bath. Guess the previous owners enjoyed a good soak! It is a really nice luxury tho 😃 Read a book or listen to an audiobook/podcast via the HomePod. Have even idly thought about putting a projector or big telly on the wall (would take a bigger telly than our living room 🤣)You are doing it wrong trail rat. My bathroom is even linked into the sound system with proper hi fi speakers
Speak for yourself Percy.
Ex MHA house clearer.
Love the bathroom^^ Looks over shoulder for IHN sneaking out
tiles are the same as our kitchen when we moved in apart from being actual brown and flooring was dark brown carpet tiles like velcro. bathroom suite was avacado enhanced with broad hand painted vertical stripes of salmon pink, green,blue and red acrylic paint that took some covering!!
I think avacado etc will make a comeback in a retro type of way. it just needs a few GDs to set it off
I'm surprised no one's mentioned the STW favourite - woodburning stoves? We had them in our last place - they were better than an open fire / poxy gas fires, but they were dusty and needed maintenance. We had the option in our new home, but declined.
I’m surprised no one’s mentioned the STW favourite – woodburning stoves?
Apart from.the number of times where they were mentioned ?
Re that tiled bathroom.
Horizontal tiled surfaces... That's the worst thing mentioned.
Also bathroom basins should extend the the wall there should never be anything horizontal next to a basin that isn't COMPLETELY waterproof and perfectly smooth or hard to reach.
I can take a photo of my living room that will show.
Grey wall
A GIANT MidCentury sideboard in teak
Bare floorboards with mad gaps
Mustard rug
two african drums
an early anglepoise
i can do a wall mounted teak cadovius unit
an Eames bird
a Peace race (cycling) poster
a Munich 72 Otl Aicher poster (real not repro!)
wood floor
grey walls (Little greene Rubine Ashes, specially selected as it has a tiny bit of red in it to add warmth as not south facing and looks spot on under 4000ºk lighting)
Henning Kjaernulf teak coffee table that looks like it’s from a care home/institution
Johannes Andersen for CFC Sikebourg rosewood table that I’m too scared to put anything on in case it gets marked.
white/grey/black Beni Ourain rug (real not fake)
fake repro Poul Kjærholm PK31 armchair, can’t afford a real one, to be replaced with a PK22 as i find them more comfortable.
copies of Cereal and Rouler mag on Tomado shelving.
no African drums but a Midwinter ‘Siena’ staffs pottery coffee pot.
would like your angle poise.
most of you will hate the above, i love the stuff.
a 1986 bathroom, complete with lino, mouldy silicone and the worst tiling ever seen, thats next on the list.
a 1986 bathroom, complete with lino, mouldy silicone and the worst tiling ever seen, thats next on the list.
I might contest that....
The Anglepoise is lovely it's not perfect but all the little bumps and scratches have come through being in the family for so long.
I rewired it and it does look good.
anyone on here?
I appear to be stuck in the 90s from what people say!
1890’s?
Inventing words , please let it be a short fad
Inventing words , please let it be a short fad
You'll be first up against the roombox when the controlfight comes.
Balderbollox
Horizontal tiled surfaces… That’s the worst thing mentioned.
Oh yes. I actually tiled a kitchen work top when bought my first house. Regretted it almost instantly. Kept it for a while but eventually got rid for a normal work top. Horrible thing to keep clean!
I'd actually take a bathroom that had been COMPLETELY molded out of plastic and just dropped into place.
No joints, no sharp internal corners, no fixings screwed in, plumbing accessible from outside.
everything wipecleanable or blasted with a hose pipe. and small.
Fans of mid-century interiors will find lots of awesomeness here - a collection of photos from the Barbican
https://antonrodriguez.co.uk/barbicanresidents
I’d actually take a bathroom that had been COMPLETELY molded out of plastic and just dropped into place.
No joints, no sharp internal corners, no fixings screwed in, plumbing accessible from outside.
everything wipecleanable or blasted with a hose pipe. and small.
I’ve stayed in Japanese hotel rooms made like this, except it’s the whole room - bed platform, WC and shower moulded in GRP.
I’d actually take a bathroom that had been COMPLETELY molded out of plastic and just dropped into place.
No joints, no sharp internal corners, no fixings screwed in, plumbing accessible from outside.
everything wipecleanable or blasted with a hose pipe. and small.
My son's student halls of residence has exactly that. All plumbing is on one wall, with access panel in the corridor outside.
I have also stayed in a Holiday Inn (Dumfries?) that had similar.
I’d actually take a bathroom that had been COMPLETELY molded out of plastic and just dropped into place.
I've seen loads of them, usually in shitey hotels where they've installed pod bathrooms.
They are invariably useless as they end up with cracks in them which require replacement of the entire pod.
The Station Hotel in Perth had some that I had a contract to rip out and replace about 15 years ago.
Sticking with the bathroom theme - pop up plugs. A solution for a non-problem. Replace a simple rubber bung with a plug and a mass of rods and linkages that require access to the back of the sink or bath. Ensure the mechanism only lifts the plug a few mm so the bath drains slowly and clogs easily. With that slow flow, increase the chance of horizontal pipe runs blocking over time. And charge. And then charge £20 for it.
Why????
Where are we at with New England facia board cladding
I live on the seaside and think it looks ok locally
Light grey obviously
Over cream or white
Grey windows
Up amd down led lights
Nantucket meets Southampton
So in summary, any decor of any style is dated, or will be soon?
My son’s student halls of residence has exactly that. All plumbing is on one wall, with access panel in the corridor outside.
We have these at student accom. They are truly shite, showers drain away so slowly due to tiny drainage slots and block up continually with hairs. To access sink to unblock need to remove shower screen, I'd say 90% of the LED lights behind the mirror have failed Walker Modular don't give a chuff their aftersales is awful.
https://www.walkermodular.com/bathroom-pods/grp-bathroom-pods/v1-v1-ext-composite-bathroom-pod
*self cleaning surface.....aye right
Sticking with the bathroom theme – pop up plugs. A solution for a non-problem. Replace a simple rubber bung with a plug and a mass of rods and linkages that require access to the back of the sink or bath. Ensure the mechanism only lifts the plug a few mm so the bath drains slowly and clogs easily. With that slow flow, increase the chance of horizontal pipe runs blocking over time. And charge. And then charge £20 for it.
Not forgetting standing on the ****ing thing when you're having a shower.
On another bathroom theme - corner sinks. Too small to actually wash your hands I and an utter bastard to install. Only one I did (not my choice) had a hole in each back edge for the m10 stud to go through. And by hole I mean literally big enough for the stud. Take a moment to visualise the mechanics required to get both studs into both holes. Oh and they have to be in the wall to begin with, no clearance to install from the sink side.
Gave up and used a bolt through the framing I had luckily installed on one edge. Bastard thing never did get levelled properly.
why in gods name would you want a bath in your bedroom or watch your partner have a bath whilst you are in bed. it’s just really weird and future generations will judge us harshly
Don't kink shame!
Citizen M hotels have bathroom pods that are actually pretty nice.
why in gods name would you want a bath in your bedroom or watch your partner have a bath whilst you are in bed. it’s just really weird and future generations will judge us harshly
Ah yes, one of our Sheffield houses had a #pornshower at the end of the bed. Illuminated with downlighter and wall light in the shower. Urghh.
If I had a bay window with a nice view, instead of the telephone exchange, I'd happily have a nice free standing bath there, be lovely to chill after a ride in there watching the sunset. And I quite happily watching my partner in the bath, we ain't all married to kathy burke/johnny vegas* lookalikes.
*Delete as appropriate.
we ain’t all married to [s]kathy burke[/s]/johnny vegas* lookalikes.
My wife would disagree
Are plantation shutters on the list?
Checking for “a friend”
Yes, every second house has them here (SW London). Nothing says boring middle class aspirational sheep more than a grey front door and the same shutters as everyone else in the street.
Citizen M hotels have bathroom pods that are actually pretty nice.
Until you go for a heavy vegetarian dump in what is effectively the bedroom and then they are less appealing. (Citizen M, Zurich)
