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it's a rental from an old Italian family who've retired somewhere hot. all marble floors and a woodfired pizza oven. we like it.
 
everyone seems to have bıg fıreplaces
I don't....1970s council estate. Got huge plastic pipes running all over the shop and through the roof spaces from when there was a central boiler on the estate and a hot air system that was on from October to May. Mouse Metro now that we have central heating in each house. Luckily I have a fearsome cat.
 
Here's mine from my current lying on the sofa position. CBA to get up to take the other side!

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Just got this burner installed. as you can see the paint isn't quite dry round the edge and I've lit it already. :D
Those bits of old pine 2by2 are the result of some 'urban wooding', but since then I've had some actual logs delivered. Many a fine evening had in the back garden with the axe now :cool:
Just as an aside.
My Brother's widow has got a buyer for their house who keeps throwing in little demands. The latest was wanting a manual for the wood-burning stove. :rolleyes:
She had to explain it was bought at a junk shop 20 years ago and "...if you look on the side you can see it says 'Paris 1901' a time when everyone knew how to light a fire and any instructions would have been in French anyway and could well have been used to light the first fire" :D
 
the messy end we live in.......it needs the decorating finishing and then some pictures putting up. I want to paint the bookshelves white, but everybody tells me off when i say that. :hmm:
All my ends are messy right now. I've got loads of decorating that needs finishing but loads more carpentry that needs doing first. These are my white shelves in the kitchen. They're messy too. I'm still at a stage where loads of things haven't found a proper place yet. What will definitely stay on the shelves is the board games and the recipe books. And the tissues.

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ahh yes. I am not fond of out fireplace. I can't imagine a time when i'll be able to afford to replace it, though. When we moved in the mantlepiece was horrible orange-stained pine. It looks so much better white that i can cope with the ugly brass fire with iits fake coals.
 
I have to say, there are a few that have made my eyes go out on stalks and envy the sheer amount of space. The only time anywhere I've lived looks spacious is when I have no furniture.
 
...and I'm envious of Stig's woodburner. In fact I'm even envious of fake 80s coals. Radiators are charmless unless manufactured before 1920.
 
People who paint perfectly lovely wood are up against the wall as soon as I come to power.

The cabin on our boat was mahogany (historic) we spent weeks rubbing it down and varnishing it, a couple of weeks after we sold it a friend saw it cruise past, painted :(

They did have the engine running though, we never did :D
 
It's Mah Jong (my father-in-law's set) then a magnetic travel compendium, chess, draughts, backgammon, dominoes etc on top of that and the top box a mad game called Crazy Post which needs quite a large room so it doesn't get played much. There's also various cards, a cribbage board plus some other games that haven't made their way onto the shelf, some because they're too big (Braille Scrabble for one. It's massive).
 
ahh yes. I am not fond of out fireplace. I can't imagine a time when i'll be able to afford to replace it, though. When we moved in the mantlepiece was horrible orange-stained pine. It looks so much better white that i can cope with the ugly brass fire with iits fake coals.

In a few years' time people will be saying "can you believe people used to rip these 80s fireplaces out and throw them away?" :D

I'm going to paint some of the new shelves in my living room white, too. They just look really odd in plain pine.
 
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