But working back through the thread

Fitted carpets as a bad thing? Not sure. Downstairs yes, hard floors and some rugs all the way (except maybe in a snug?) but having built a house with wooden floors upstairs I’d have wall to wall carpet in bedrooms if I was building again.

Lighting – as already said, just because you can with LEDs doesn’t mean you should. Most uses of LED strip will be for the bin (and I’ve never seen coloured lighting internally that looks good, though I think it’s great in a garden).

A grid of fixed ceiling spots gives horrible, harsh, light – good for cleaning the house but not for living with. Standard developer/electrician approach puts about twice the number needed in as well. Trashes soundproofing, fire resistance, air tightness as well while you’re at it. While we were building we rented a top floor flat in a victorian conversion that had bare floorboards with big gaps so we could hear every word in the flat below AND see the back of their ceiling spots (!)

Taps Anything other than a trad turn tap or a single lever is a mistake. A friend rented a place with waterfall sink tap where you turned it on by sliding two ‘bars’. Every time I used it I took about 4 goes to actually get the water to come on (push/pull/twist?)

Big opening doors I was dubious as to how often they’d get used but it’s surprising. Uncle and aunt have bi-folds on the side of a hill in Hereford and they spend loads of time open.

Most of our place is pretty minimal but the downstairs loo got an ‘unconventional’ suite and black walls, but then we acquired enough of this wallpaper to do two of them….

and the kitchen is matt grey rather than gloss white (which we naively thought wouldn’t show fingerprints and splashes…)

Sticking with the bathroom theme – pop up plugs. A solution for a non-problem.

I’m so glad you posted this, as I’ve opened this thread like twelvety times to say the same thing and keep forgetting.

My new place has clicky sink plugs that operate like the button on top of a clicky pen. Click-click to close, click-click again to open. Except, the seal is… how can I explain this, vertical rather than horizontal, does that make sense? It’s between the bore of the pipe and the circumference of the plug cylinder, so no amount of downforce will create a better seal and it’s a race against time or constant top-ups to get washed before it all dribbles away. And once you’ve dried your hands and realised that you’ve forgotten to pull (push) the plug you’ve got to fish around in the water to drain it and dry your hands again. It’s a truly shit solution to a problem that never existed in the first place.

There aren’t even any pictures of houses with… floor to ceiling “specialist” pornography.

will my sex dungeon date badly?

we acquired enough of this wallpaper to do two of them….

You should’ve taken your own advice.

just because you can… doesn’t mean you should.

I absolutely love the kitchen, but that throne room is Jack Duckworth’s Stone Cladding levels of boak.

This thread shows how different tastes are. that kitchen to me is horribly dark and the extractor looks like it just recirculates with no connection to the outside. I suspect that kitchen will date really badly and I loathe the 3 low hanging lights.

suspect that kitchen will date really badly

And yet you think black counter top won’t!?

At least b3akers looks like he has done it for him to his tastes. Not just a box of bland to maintain the future value

Me and TJ can agree on this one!

Not just a box of bland to maintain the future value

Mmm yeah the bold juxtaposition of grey with grey is very striking 😛

Not just a box of bland to maintain the future value not alienate future tenants and to provide a blank canvas for them.

TJ is a landlord! TRAITOR TO THE REVOLUTION

and the extractor looks like it just recirculates with no connection to the outside

Nothing wrong with that if it’s fitted with charcoal filters – we’ve gone from external extraction to recirc with the filters and, although I was dubious initially, I have to admit it’s very effective.
(you do need to replace the filters about every 12 months though)

Well there is if you want the moisture extracting.

@cougar I’m telling her you said that.

TJ is a landlord! TRAITOR TO THE REVOLUTION

Nowt wrong with champagne socialism
*opens bottle of Bolly*

Mmm yeah the bold juxtaposition of grey with grey is very striking

The bog is more of a juxta of John Major and death in paradise!

Mmm yeah the bold juxtaposition of grey with grey is very striking

I’m particularly impressed that the cat matches as well 🙂

I’m surprised no-one’s mentioned ‘outdoor rooms’ with acres of decking and built-in barbeques. In the North of England (or anywhere on these Isles, really) FFS.

Not just a box of bland to maintain the future value not alienate future tenants and to provide a blank canvas for them.

And there’s the rub. You don’t actually have to live with it.

@b33k34 – I really like the cloakroom

At least b3akers looks like he has done it for him to his tastes.

^^This every time

B33k34 – “like” your kitchen, that’s pretty much perfect for me regarding design and colour.

I’m surprised no-one’s mentioned ‘outdoor rooms’ with acres of decking and built-in barbeques. In the North of England (or anywhere on these Isles, really) FFS.

See my comment about oversized wood fired pizza ovens

This thread shows how different tastes are. that kitchen to me is horribly dark and the extractor looks like it just recirculates with no connection to the outside. I suspect that kitchen will date really badly and I loathe the 3 low hanging lights.

Its floor to ceiling glass across the back and a strip of glazed roof front to back (that you can sort of see beyond the table). The lights are dimmed to reduce reflections for the photo – it’s not a dark room. The hanging lights are cast concrete – much more interesting IRL.

But yes, the house pallette is pretty consistently white/grey/grey/stainless steel/walnut…

This must have been while we were still finishing – looks like I’d only just planted the garden.

House is highly airtight so hood is recirculation but has a c5kg container of charcoal that only needs replacing about every 4 years and a Dyson style vortex to spin out the grease. Then theres a whole house heat recovery ventilation system that boosts when the hood is on. It’s really effective and you don’t get any smells through the house (or even to the living room that is semi open plan to the kitchen)

Looks nice in that photo, the table is cool.

To be fair, I’m not a fan of dangly lights generally. We have them in the trendy new office in Blackburn* and all you do is **** your head on them constantly.

(* – Yes, that’s possible, Blackburn can have trendy offices. Shut up. Your mum.)

While we’re at it, here’s the living room. Though I should have tidied up a bit…

A TV at the correct height! Halle-F‘ing-lujah

Is the cat a pet or professional accessory?

B£ looks less dark but still dark – a lot better in that pic tho.

Trailrat – actually I really like the neutral colours and minimalist look. Tastes differ.

My real pet hate is plastic widows – loathsome things.

Oh – for giggles this is the kitchen I built for me. When I say built this was eaves space full of stuctural timbers. I reclaimed doors and skirtings so they match and some of the beams are are real structural timbers and some fakeery ( but real 150 yr old reclaimed timber) 25 years ago. dated?

[url=https://flic.kr/p/5CZogh]DSCN1055[/url] by TandemJeremy, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/5CZogq]DSCN1056[/url] by TandemJeremy, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/5CZogd]DSCN1054[/url] by TandemJeremy, on Flickr

Ha our tastes differ yet my kitchens (from 2020) is a little less orange but almost that…..

That THAT is a dark kitchen.

Its not really dark although it looks it in that pic taken at night! the orange is exaggerated as well but the pillar and beams its the natural colour of the wood

so trail rat – my 25 yr old kitchen you think is not dated but my 3 yr old one is?

Maybe you had better(ok different) taste when you were young ;)….. 25 years ago you’d have been my age or a little older perhaps 🙂

I mean your kitchen looks like something you have done for you it looks like a home.

The rental one looks like the kitchen equivalent to jogging pants

A TV at the correct height! Halle-F‘ing-lujah

It’s not though. The bottom of the TV should be eye level that’s atleast a foot to low*

Its not as simple as that but it should be higher unless you sit upright.

TVs above fireplaces are defo worse though

It’s not though. The bottom of the TV should be eye level that’s atleast a foot to low*

Probably easier* and far more specific to say the centre of the TV should be at eye level when viewed perpendicular to the angle of the seat back.

*as it avoids unnecessary arguments. In theory. Not here though.

The bottom of the TV should be eye level that’s atleast a foot to low*

Hmm. New one on me. It’s centred at eye level when on the sofa. Much more comfortable that looking up at a screen IMO

Hmm. New one on me. It’s centred at eye level when on the sofa. Much more comfortable that looking up at a screen IMO

I’ve not really explained it well. To me if that is centred at eye level you are leaning back with your chin on your chest with it higher you aren’t so much looking up as looking forward from your leaning back position.

Yours looks so uncomfortable my neck is hurting thinking about it. If it works for you though that’s cool. Atleast it’s not on a bit of furniture with loads of cables, big fan off wall mounting.