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listermint wrote: »Kinda wondered why a bidet is not acceptable in Ireland but is acceptable in Spain or France.
Do Irish people have different arses.?
Yeah, I don't know ...
Are they easy to find here I wonder ? I don't spend much time in bathroom sales places. I'd have room for one in bathroom.
edit : a quick Google search tells me they're not that easy to find actually. Like, one or two models seem available.0 -
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Yourself isit wrote: »My problem with your posts (besides the use of sheeple) isn't any kind of Iove of grey. I don't have any grey paint in my house. It's the general unearned – as far as I can tell – air of superiority.
The problem isn't with grey, you tell us, but the fact that the lesser classes haven't been using it properly. They are just followers of fashion, following interior design fads. You on the other hand, you are the expert on the use of grey paint.
It could be the case that your are in fact the world's foremost grey paint design expert but it's unlikely
You're right, I'm not the world's foremost expert on grey paint, or any paint for that matter
If you read my first post in this thread, you'll see that it's fairly ordinary, noting beyond any other post criticising other fads/trend in this thread.
However, I then got smug responses attempting to belittle me rather than really look at my post and find a way to contradict it. Fight fire with fire.
Simple enough and not very nice. Your post is a very fair assessment! I don't normally post like this 0 -
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It's different, I'll give it that. TBH while it wouldn't be my taste, at least they made an effort. It's a reflection of them.
Depends on the frame and the mirrors I'd say G. 18th century plaster and gesso gilded frame, with "shabby chic" from actual time, then grand, placcy frame copying same from Argos, not so much. Ditto for the mirrors. Oh and before the "the real thing is way out of reach for most people", some might be surprised. Some antique stuff is often to be had cheaper than modern reproductions coming on the slow boat from China. Depends as ever with what is currently fashionable. A few years back I was in a Dublin shop that had "high quality" reproductions of Georgian chests of drawers, that were near double the price of the real deal. And the real deal has survived a couple of centuries, so quality isn't at issue. So if you want "authentic", so long as you steer clear of the currently fashionable, the real deal can often be cheaper to source.Picture frames on the wall as decoration. Just the frame.
Mirrors as decoration.
This. So much this.IvyTheTerrible wrote: »I think if you're happy and comfortable in your house, it doesn't matter what way you have it decorated. Other people's taste doesn't bother me all that much.
Though I will admit to a bit of a grimace with houses that look like all items within were bought in an afternoon as a currently fashionable job lot.
I personally like the "Victorian clutter", cabinet of curiosities look(among others). Think Sherlock Holmes' gaff style, with various styles, including modern stuff added in. Though if money were no object… Maybe more than a touch of original Art Nouveau stuff*(and some high Deco, rather than the mass produced stuff), mixed with original renaissance stuff. Furniture wise anyway. You'd need a large room(s) though. That style, especially the latter tends towards the monumental and was designed for such large spaces. I also tend to prefer dark woods to light woods. Pine generally gives me hives. All that would appeal to few enough, but it's a reflection of me and I can live with that.
*Quality Art Nouveau was about the last gasp of the excessive ornament, hand made, natural and very bourgeois style, in the face of the rise of the machine and futurism. The New Art looking to a past that never existed. It's part of the appeal for me. High Art Deco was more about the machine and futurism, but was just as excessive, hand made and very bourgeois too. I'm a sucker for futurism/modernism TBH. That it has become nostalgic is ironic in of itself. BUt I digress. As effin usual.Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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That must be the most claustrophobic bed ever.0 -
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Maybe it's because I'm from Florida, but there are some things that are just so outlandishly tacky that I can't help but love them. This is one of those things 0 -
Who wants to sleep in a compact?....:pmetaoblivia wrote: »Maybe it's because I'm from Florida, but there are some things that are just so outlandishly tacky that I can't help but love them. This is one of those things
There's tack and there's tack......
for almost two years in the 1980's I worked security in an old factory while studying, vast open floor space where they made huge dolls and the like with plenty of old parts still on rails and ceiling hook lines, well eventhough the bosses didn't know it, I stayed there too to save rent.
I put my lilo in the middle of the vast floor and was able to drive my bike in as the doors and most of the windows were broken, but security was still needed for the site but only over night as someone tried to burn the place down. I was the only security there, so I was ok. During bad weather or storms the fu**in shadows and noises were soo creepy, I used to talk to my bike, it was the best serviced CX out there....:P There were times I couldn't wait to go there and there were times I couldn't stop shaking going through the gates, but I lasted 22 months....
As an observer what you see as tacky decor or surroundings or furniture doesn't matter a f**k, it's what the user/occupier sees and experiences is what matters, at least their comforting piece of decor isn't a Honda CX 500.....:p0 -
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I personally like the "Victorian clutter", cabinet of curiosities look(among others). Think Sherlock Holmes' gaff style, with various styles, including modern stuff added in. Though if money were no object… Maybe more than a touch of original Art Nouveau stuff*(and some high Deco, rather than the mass produced stuff), mixed with original renaissance stuff. Furniture wise anyway. You'd need a large room(s) though. That style, especially the latter tends towards the monumental and was designed for such large spaces. I also tend to prefer dark woods to light woods. Pine generally gives me hives. All that would appeal to few enough, but it's a reflection of me and I can live with that.
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I was going to say, that sounds like my house, but not so much after the ''Victorian clutter", cabinet of curiosities look(among others). Think Sherlock Holmes' gaff style''.
We do have some pitch pine, mostly old oak but very little heavy dark brown colour furniture. No art deco apart from a radio. I do not like green embossed tiles or chrome. It's more along the lines of the Weasley's house (The Burrows). Except it's tiny.0 -
Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »You're right Candie but I wasn't referring to the homeless but the prolonged tit for tat about the grey colour.
Stern stuff, naw, I had no money so I saved on rent for a while, student concessions to the gym and pool looked after hygiene three times a week. When you're young you don't care, do you?
Oh I know, but in the grand scheme of things it's a bit trivial arguing about color choices when we're all just lucky to be in a position to have a roof over our heads.
(Sez she, who poured scorn on PVC doors and corner baths)Widdershins wrote: »Will it involve bitchslapping with Farrow and Ball paint charts?
I certainly hope so!0 -
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Oh I know, but in the grand scheme of things it's a bit trivial arguing about color choices when we're all just lucky to be in a position to have a roof over our heads.
(Sez she, who poured scorn on PVC doors and corner baths)
Haa, me too, and I design this for clients every working day......:D0 -
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