Detail your latest furniture and homeware related purchases

[Pip]

I've started and discarded this thread about four times now, because I'm not sure if there's a market for it on Urban. I hope it does catch on though, because I love this shit even more than I love clothes and slap (and I really love clothes and slap). If not, I'm happy to be the only contributor

So what things have you bought for your home recently?

Some of mine include a post-war medical cabinet I was banging on about on another thread. My intention was to strip it back to the steel (it's painted white) but I actually quite like it how it is. It's in my kitchen and currently displays all my glassware and nang Modernist crockery

I also got a massive pepper grinder from Ikea, which looks like a sculpture, and some fabric with big obscene 70s flowers on to make cushion covers with.

Your turn, pictures heartily encouraged.

 

[Geri]

I bought four lightbulbs from Wilkinsons.

 

[Upchuck]

I bought a framed etching of Westminster Abbey by W. Travis Jackson. It looks really

 

[psycherelic]

I found a old tea trolley outside my flat, pulled the wheels off and used it to put plants on

 

[Pip]

I found a old tea trolley outside my flat, pulled the wheels off and used it to put plants on

What's the rolleyes for? It sounds good.

 

[Madusa]

I bought some pot plants for my marijuana.

 

[Voley]

I've just bought a coffee grinder off Ebay for £8.99.

 

[Voley]

I bought some pot plants for my marijuana.

My coffee grinder's for poppies mainly.

Maybe we should shift this thread to the drug forum.

 

[Vintage Paw]

I'm going to buy a kettle, but I just have to decide on which one first.

Also, I'm going to buy some muslin to make roman blinds, but I can't find any wide enough, so it looks like I'll have to stitch two panels together and have this god-awful seam down the middle. Or I could be all arty and have a bit tacked on the edge or something. Either way, my sewing machine isn't working properly so I don't know how long it's going to take me to get them made. Probably forever.

 

[Pip]

BTW this is my cabinet.

And this is sort of how it would look if I stripped it, just in case you were wondering.

I can't find a picture of my pepper grinder.

 

[Voley]

Have you sorted your floor out now, Pip? I missed the end of that thread. I like threads like that.

 

[Geri]

I like that - I would keep it white if I were you.

It would go well in my bathroom!

 

[Madusa]

I can't find a picture of my pepper grinder.

Isnt that a really shit place to have a glass panelled cabinet...right behind a door?

 

[Pip]

Have you sorted your floor out now, Pip? I missed the end of that thread. I like threads like that.

Unfortunately my income is slim and dainty, so it's taking longer than I'd like.


I'm having to rent the claw hammer

 

[Pip]

Isnt that a really shit place to have a glass panelled cabinet...right behind a door?

Yeah I thought that
I think it's in one of those Victorian houses where the living room is two rooms together and only one door is used IYSWIM.

 

[Kanda]

I'm about to buy a home, to live in. That count?

 

[Pip]

I'm about to buy a home, to live in. That count?

Yeah, and you better be up in here when you buy all nice stuff for it too.

Is it the one near Battersea btw?

 

[Vintage Paw]

I want this so bad:

 

[Pip]

I want this so bad:

That's nice, where's it from?

 

[Pip]

BTW does anyone here post on the Living Etc forum?

 

[Kanda]

Yeah, and you better be up in here when you buy all nice stuff for it too.

Is it the one near Battersea btw?

Nah, probably around the top of Brixton Hill/Streatham way.

 

[Pip]

Nah, probably around the top of Brixton Hill/Streatham way.

Post loads of pictures.

 

[Madusa]

Yeah I thought that
I think it's in one of those Victorian houses where the living room is two rooms together and only one door is used IYSWIM.

Yeah, we used to do that in my family home.

 

[Kanda]

Post loads of pictures.

I'll send you a PM of the one we want.

 

[Vintage Paw]

That's nice, where's it from?

http://www.nest.co.uk They have an owl one, I sent a link to electrogirl

BTW does anyone here post on the Living Etc forum?

No but I get the magazine delivered each month

 

[Pip]

http://www.nest.co.uk They have an owl one, I sent a link to electrogirl



No but I get the magazine delivered each month

Me too, I got this months delivered this morning

BTW, I'm currently looking for a nice floor lamp to make more of a feature of my hall (fucksake ) and I'm thinking about getting a 70s sideboard for my front room. I just bought my boyfriend a really nice old Arne Jacobsen lamp (ebay bargain) for his birthday - I was extremely tempted to keep it

 

[Pip]

Wooohoooo I won this auction last night.

I'm trying to decide whether to keep it how it is or whether I should paint it in a sweet 50s palette - mustard yellow, turquoise, grey, etc.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I am sometimes amazed that you are my offspring Pip. I am useless with money but your ability to save and sniff out bargains for practically no cash never ceases to astound me. I didn't know what frugal meant.

 

[Biddlybee]

BTW this is my cabinet.

I reckon that looks better as it is than the stripped version - where did you get it from? Was it pricey?

Wooohoooo I won this auction last night.

I'm trying to decide whether to keep it how it is or whether I should paint it in a sweet 50s palette - mustard yellow, turquoise, grey, etc.

That'd paint up nice

 

[Kanda]

I am sometimes amazed that you are my offspring Pip. I am useless with money but your ability to save and sniff out bargains for practically no cash never ceases to astound me. I didn't know what frugal meant.

she does a paper round on the sly.