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Artaxerxes said:
I'm after this fucker in wood effect, I'd cave and go white but I know I'd end up resenting it.

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BILLY bookcase white, width: 40 cm Height: 202 cm - IKEA

BILLY bookcase is a beloved icon that never goes out of style. Thanks to its versatility you can use it in many different ways in your home. See more here.
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Or alternatives around the same width/depth (40x40) - height doesn't matter to much but I'd like to use it as a storage/bookshelf and the standard 28cm isn't deep enough to replace what I have.
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Facebook Marketplace. You can probably find a nice real pine one for less than you'd pay for a Billy, but you have to have a car big enough to pick it up.
 
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Latest purchase from Gumtree, this rattan armchair. Had a couple of these in my very first flat when I moved out of my parents' house, and I think they are still going strong at my brother's house 25 years later.

Considered getting one, but was put off by the £75 price tag at IKEA. Especially as the whole renting/flatsharing thing means you never know what you'll be able to take with you to the next flat.

Very happy with this for a fiver, albeit with somewhat cat-scratched legs.
 
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Latest purchase from Gumtree, this rattan armchair. Had a couple of these in my very first flat when I moved out of my parents' house, and I think they are still going strong at my brother's house 25 years later.

Considered getting one, but was put off by the £75 price tag at IKEA. Especially as the whole renting/flatsharing thing means you never know what you'll be able to take with you to the next flat.

Very happy with this for a fiver, albeit with somewhat cat-scratched legs.
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Nice chair.

Love the lamp too - bought this similar one in a chrome finish a while back, but only managed to assemble it recently (I'm shit at flat-pack).
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Saw this on here so I had it made into an A2 print. Cheers urbs!
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It may have to sit around the house for a few weeks so some slightly damp bits can dry out. :eek: TBH, may be for the best, as we're yet to have the concrete it'll be standing on paved. gsv was prepared to put it together before that then move it, but it would make more sense to get it paved first and we're getting a quote on Saturday, so hopefully it'll be reasonable numbers and the bloke can do it soonish, as it should be a fairly small job.
 
Cloo said:
It may have to sit around the house for a few weeks so some slightly damp bits can dry out. :eek: TBH, may be for the best, as we're yet to have the concrete it'll be standing on paved. gsv was prepared to put it together before that then move it, but it would make more sense to get it paved first and we're getting a quote on Saturday, so hopefully it'll be reasonable numbers and the bloke can do it soonish, as it should be a fairly small job.
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Oh blimey, honestly I have had a coffee table standing on its side in our hall for 2 months now in want of some gorilla wood glue to mend a small crack on the edge, it is entirely my fault cos I procured the table (well not entirely because if I we had spare cash to go out and buy wood glue I would have probably got round to it by now. Probably :hmm: ) but yeah shed in the hall I can kind of sympathise with
 
So after fruitless periods of searching for dining chairs, gsv had suggested last week some from La Redoute that I quite liked and had the benefit of being on offer with free returns. There was something else I wanted to look at first, which it turned out it wasn't possible to look at in the flesh so I went back to these and the discount bumped up to half price, still with free returns, so i thought fuck it, let's buy 6 of them. So that's something a little bit different - usually find this style of chair comfortable, so hoping they turn out OK, think they will go with the scandi oak table, and if they don't last brilliantly, they're cheap enough with the discount that we could replace with something more solid in a few years' time.

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Cloo said:
So after fruitless periods of searching for dining chairs, gsv had suggested last week some from La Redoute that I quite liked and had the benefit of being on offer with free returns. There was something else I wanted to look at first, which it turned out it wasn't possible to look at in the flesh so I went back to these and the discount bumped up to half price, still with free returns, so i thought fuck it, let's buy 6 of them. So that's something a little bit different - usually find this style of chair comfortable, so hoping they turn out OK, think they will go with the scandi oak table, and if they don't last brilliantly, they're cheap enough with the discount that we could replace with something more solid in a few years' time.

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They are fantastic, very retro
 
I'm leaving cloth on it for the mo - heatproof matting underneath is a good idea.

What I want to do is get some nice melamine placemates as that should remind the kid to use those as rests if, say writing something resting on the table/.

Artaxerxes - it should be at what it cost extends about 1m so it goes from a good size 6 to a good size 10; previous one only went 6-8 and was a tad narrow.
 
Just had a funny exchange of messages with gsv (I'm in the office, he's home) where he was worried we'd got the wrong size table. Somehow he'd remembered us as choosing between this and a huuuuge table, but we were definitely choosing between this and a slightly smaller one as I said outrightvthe huge one was too big and too expensive. That would explain why he kept saying he thought the table might seem really big in the room when we bought it and I was like :confused: because it was only another 25cm unextended.
 
Have just ordered two tablecloths in the La Redoute sale for the new table as not sure we have anything big enough for it extended. We tend to go for busy patterns because we're very bad for getting the fuckers stained, and busy does better for that. So the stripey one is a bit of a risk, but we both like it.

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Do pickups off Freecycle count as 'purchases' for the purpose of the thread, I wonder...?

In amongst the usual offerings of pallets, empty pots, broken kettles "will be great once fixed", etc, you can see the occasional gem. Which has almost invariably gone by the time you message the giver.

Imagine my surprise to find that these were still listed on there a full day after being posted up. The description was "unmarked but the frames are very unstable" - maybe why.

Five mins with a hex key and a 10mm spanner and we're all good 👍🏼😎

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Now I just need to get my Skoghaug recliner fixed and I'll be happy. With chairs, at least.
 
Nothing that special here but I’ve hung up a couple of prints / posters I bought a few months ago, having gone through the faff of buying them, ordering a frame, putting in a frame, hanging them.

Photos aren’t v good but I’m happy with them. The Pembrokeshire one came from the national park gift shop and it’s exactly how I feel about my holidays there - my troubles all packed away :)

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plurker said:
Do pickups off Freecycle count as 'purchases' for the purpose of the thread, I wonder...?

In amongst the usual offerings of pallets, empty pots, broken kettles "will be great once fixed", etc, you can see the occasional gem. Which has almost invariably gone by the time you message the giver.

Imagine my surprise to find that these were still listed on there a full day after being posted up. The description was "unmarked but the frames are very unstable" - maybe why.

Five mins with a hex key and a 10mm spanner and we're all good 👍🏼😎

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Now I just need to get my Skoghaug recliner fixed and I'll be happy. With chairs, at least.
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They don't just count, but get bonus points in my book. :cool:

:D at "broken kettle - will be great once fixed". Nail on head!
 
Elpenor said:
Nothing that special here but I’ve hung up a couple of prints / posters I bought a few months ago, having gone through the faff of buying them, ordering a frame, putting in a frame, hanging them.

Photos aren’t v good but I’m happy with them. The Pembrokeshire one came from the national park gift shop and it’s exactly how I feel about my holidays there - my troubles all packed away :)

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We sent this card home to the boy when we were in Pembrokeshire a couple of months ago!
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zora said:
They don't just count, but get bonus points in my book. :cool:

:D at "broken kettle - will be great once fixed". Nail on head!
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I managed to sell a broken hoover for parts / project for £20 on marketplace which I was quite pleased about, it took a while to get a sale as most people didn’t seem to read the part of the advert that said “no suction in hose but there’s still power etc”
 
A set of mini screwdrivers to fix glasses when the screws inevitably come loose. Got a couple that you attach to your keyring too which will be handy if a glasses emergency happens when I'm out and about - they only have two tiny screwdrivers but they're the most common ones for glasses screws in my experience (flathead and philips)
 
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