Mogden
I like tea
A quick Google says they look lovely Shirl! I see they do cocktail cabinets too. I quite fancied one of those myself but as I don't quaff booze that often and have no space for it, I couldn't justify it.
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Mmmm, cocktail cabinets you say. I need to go and have a look
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
Fucking hell....you shoulda just gone to IKEA, maybe, ringo?
Shade has arrived! Finally, looks great too, what a palaver.
They didn't want the other shade back in the end either
I went to pick this up after work and not only is it even nicer than it looked on ebay, the bloke sold me a McIintosh 'space saver' round extending table and 4 chairs, excellent condition for £45 and it goes really well with the sideboard
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Some Trench Art. WWI. I like the idea of shells being hammered into vases. Like swords & ploughshares.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
this is a chandelier in a little church in Kalemegdon park, Belgrade.
I was looking at them for a good 30 seconds before it clicked what they were.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
I have a nearly finished new kitchen.
The old kitchen was really shoddily built (that's social housing for you) and when the workman dismantled it he pointed out that the reason it fell apart was that vital screws and brackets had been omitted during its construction
We could have waited for the next round of new kitchens. Replacement of shoddy ones are on a seven year cycle. Fuck that. We decided to bypass the Housing Association and pay for it ourselves and get in someone we knew to be good at carpentry etc.
Next step is a really nice bed for my adult son (his really sturdy old bunk bed has gone to the brothers next door) and a built in bookcase on the upstairs landing to take all my Penguins and Pelicans.
When all that's in place Very Tall Lodger is decorating. I am a happy bunny.
The old kitchen was really shoddily built (that's social housing for you) and when the workman dismantled it he pointed out that the reason it fell apart was that vital screws and brackets had been omitted during its construction
We could have waited for the next round of new kitchens. Replacement of shoddy ones are on a seven year cycle. Fuck that. We decided to bypass the Housing Association and pay for it ourselves and get in someone we knew to be good at carpentry etc. Next step is a really nice bed for my adult son (his really sturdy old bunk bed has gone to the brothers next door) and a built in bookcase on the upstairs landing to take all my Penguins and Pelicans.
When all that's in place Very Tall Lodger is decorating.
I am a happy bunny.
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
Oh how I long for a built in bookcase
I've got lots of shelves to put up for my books but I wanted to paint them first and I can't quite be arsed.
I've got lots of shelves to put up for my books but I wanted to paint them first and I can't quite be arsed.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Top tip. If you have to have a lodger, get one over 6' 5". They tend not to have to teeter precariously when painting or getting things off the top of cupboards.
Looby
Well-Known Member
I've bought a lovely sage green coat rack for the hall from Homesense as I thought this would be lovely with cream walls etc
I remembered on the way home that the front door is claret and it really doesn't go.
Mr s is a bit annoyed because we now have to repaint the front door (over a really strong colour) because I refuse to change the coat rack. : o
I also bought a chalk board thing with hooks for the kitchen which was dirt cheap as one of them was broken.
I've now spent double what I paid for the board for new bloody hooks.
So sort of successful but also a bit of shopping fail.
All this because my coat was hairy this morning! : D
I remembered on the way home that the front door is claret and it really doesn't go.
Mr s is a bit annoyed because we now have to repaint the front door (over a really strong colour) because I refuse to change the coat rack. : o
I also bought a chalk board thing with hooks for the kitchen which was dirt cheap as one of them was broken.
I've now spent double what I paid for the board for new bloody hooks.
So sort of successful but also a bit of shopping fail.
All this because my coat was hairy this morning! : D
Manter
Lunch Mob
Loads of lovely new stuff as I have a new house
Just bought a big metal light salvaged from a mill in Halifax for over the kitchen table. And a new bed head for the huge new bed we just got. Need to decide on a paint colour for the living room, and put new shelves up (they put up shelves at CD height not book height....)
Just bought a big metal light salvaged from a mill in Halifax for over the kitchen table. And a new bed head for the huge new bed we just got. Need to decide on a paint colour for the living room, and put new shelves up (they put up shelves at CD height not book height....)
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
I grabbed a full service for six of some Staffordshire "Stage" dinnerware:
$20 at a charity shop. I'm told they had boxes and boxes of pottery the day before, but people had been buying it as fast as they could put it out. I figure I can sell a couple of plates for what I spent on the whole box.
$20 at a charity shop. I'm told they had boxes and boxes of pottery the day before, but people had been buying it as fast as they could put it out. I figure I can sell a couple of plates for what I spent on the whole box.
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
I need new light fittings for the kitchen and was a bit baffled in Ikea so went to John Lewis Home to talk to an actual person. Went a bit mad and bought them there for about 3 times what I would have paid in Ikea, plus a cafetiere, an Egyptian cotton bath towel and some pillows for my girlfriend's house because hers are crap. Boy that's a seductive shop.
Virtual Blue
ready
Two composite doors - very expensive 
Now more money to fit the fuckin' things.
Now more money to fit the fuckin' things.
Did you buy the light on ebay? There's a bloke who sells loads of reclaimed industrial stuff and lots of metal light fittings that come from around Halifax.Loads of lovely new stuff as I have a new house
Just bought a big metal light salvaged from a mill in Halifax for over the kitchen table. And a new bed head for the huge new bed we just got. Need to decide on a paint colour for the living room, and put new shelves up (they put up shelves at CD height not book height....)
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
Bought this beautiful sofa with matching armchair. The leather is nice and soft and it's a good comfortable size for vertically challenged people such as myself.
I'm going to measure up a wall and buy some of this wallpaper for one big empty wall
Reckon I might even go the whole hog and get a new tv, then my lounge will be 80% finished
I'm going to measure up a wall and buy some of this wallpaper for one big empty wall
Reckon I might even go the whole hog and get a new tv, then my lounge will be 80% finished
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
I love my new house
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
Yes, 'tis, nice eh? I just hope I don't change my mind about this one
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
A set of 6 of these, in three colors (blue, light brown, dark brown.)
A set of 6 of these, in three colors (blue, light brown, dark brown.)
That is beautiful. Were they new? They look second hand.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
They were new. I only regret that I found them at Bed, Bath and Beyond.
