Current status of your lounge

[Saffy]

Living room

I love your coffee table.

 

[Fez909]

I love your coffee table.

It's nice isnt it! I wish it was mine...it was in the loft of the house I'm renting (along with the rug!) so I nabbed it.

D'ya reckon I should steal it when I move out?

 

[8ball]

Possibly a little indulgent having the fire on, but there's only a teeny radiator in that corner (and lots of windows, so can get a little parky).

 

[Saffy]

All these photos are making me feel sad about my old living room. I'm in a rented house now which we can't change and it's a blank magnolia box. All the things which make it feel like home are in boxes still.

 

[Saffy]

It's nice isnt it! I wish it was mine...it was in the loft of the house I'm renting (along with the rug!) so I nabbed it.

D'ya reckon I should steal it when I move out?

Was it in the inventory?

 

[5t3IIa]

Here’s one end, with the vape on charge. You’ll have to wait for the Show Us Your Christmas Tree thread for the other end

 

[iona]

Crap photo, it's not this dark IRL

Only got the big beanbag-y cushions for visitors, I still sit on the floor otherwise. I like my empty, blank magnolia box

 

[Shirl]

This is tidy by my standards but there's still dog and cat hair tumble weed on the rug.

 

[Fez909]

Was it in the inventory?

Nope

 

[danski]

Yesterday, marking out


Today, chopping out

 

[Guineveretoo]

I have a sitting room.

Which is always messy and full of toys. I like it messy to some extent. I like organised clutter.

I’ll post a photo later - not actually at home right now.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Crap photo, it's not this dark IRL

Only got the big beanbag-y cushions for visitors, I still sit on the floor otherwise. I like my empty, blank magnolia box

Now that's more like it.
My aim is always no chairs and zero things, but they all start creeping back in.
I have these fold up floor chairs so that I can stick them away if I want to.

We did at one point actually have sofas in both rooms but we just sat on the floor all the time so it seemed like a massive waste of space.
Couldn't bare to throw it though and now it takes up waaaay to much space in my garden office.

 

[8ball]

Now that's more like it.
My aim is always no chairs and zero things, but they all start creeping back in.
I have these fold up floor chairs so that I can...

I think what you actually meant to say was "LOOK AT MY FUCKING BANJO!!".

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I think what you actually meant to say was "LOOK AT MY FUCKING BANJO!!".

Ha, I was genuinely rocking on that chair this morning and playing that. Not played it for half a year. Good acoustics in here. My daughter thought I had just made up 'Different Drum' on the spot as she was getting ready for school.
Not a banjo though. Banjolele. . . . and not a very good one.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

It's refreshing to see that so many other people also live in a state of less than perfection, not exactly a horrible mess but some degree of chaos and stuff everywhere.

One or two seem to live in places where things are put away, lots where things are put down. And left there.

 

[8ball]

Ha, I was genuinely rocking on that chair this morning and playing that. Not played it for half a year. Good acoustics in here. My daughter thought I had just made up 'Different Drum' on the spot as she was getting ready for school.
Not a banjo though. Banjolele. . . . and not a very good one.

Yeah, wasn't sure whether it was a banjolele seeing it next to everything else. Had momentarily forgotten that you are a hobbit.

 

[Oula]

The front room. Tuesday is tidy day.

 

[Oula]

The room we spend most time in

 

[8ball]

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The front room. Tuesday is tidy day.

V impressive tidiness there.

 

[Oula]

V impressive tidiness there.

It was not my work.
And we only sit in that room to watch TV so it doesn't get too messy. Everything else happens in the other room.

 

[Epona]

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This counts as 'actually quite tidy'

I love your light fitting! The room looks like a lovely family living space - it's a lot tidier than ours, it just looks like a normal family enjoys it.

 

[Epona]

Living room

Compared to my standards of cleanliness, you could perform surgery in that space!

 

[Oula]

V impressive tidiness there.

Tidiness is not my natural state. Maybe I should put up a picture of my desk to show what I'm really like

 

[8ball]

Tidiness is not my natural state. Maybe I should put up a picture of my desk to show what I'm really like

If I had put up a picture of what my lounge is *really* like, I would probably have been sectioned at this point.

 

[weepiper]

Comfortable mess. It's a living room in our house.

 

[8ball]

Comfortable mess. It's a living room in our house.

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“Lounge” is the lingua franca of the aspirational middle classes. The same people who haven’t yet realised that prawn cocktails are an abomination.

 

[Orang Utan]

most people have nice looking surroundings. makes me feel well weird as i don't have that thing in me that makes people want to decorate.

 

[Voley]

It's the only room I've got- my bed's the other side of that partition- so 'lounge' is stretching it a bit but still. Here it is, in a remarkably tidy state.

 

[8ball]

most people have nice looking surroundings. makes me feel well weird as i don't have that thing in me that makes people want to decorate.

Me neither. Bring on FALC and decorator-enabled Mr Handy’s for all.

 

[Gaia]

most people have nice looking surroundings. makes me feel well weird as i don't have that thing in me that makes people want to decorate.

I have the thing that makes people want to decorate, what I don’t have is the thing that makes people actually do it. I’ve decorated and redecorated my imaginary house dozens of times, but it’s always very retro (I like all the colours in Little Greene’s 70s paint collection).

Then there’s the money thing… (as in I ain’t got none).