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We need more peoples front rooms on this thread. Don't be shy. I bet there are some gems yet to behold
 
Sorry for the dodgy lighting effect. My phone has a broken lens cover so any direct light screws up the pics.

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This is our old living room

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:D

not much point in posting our now living room cos we're lazy and it's still beige from when we moved in in 2007

That fireplace with the beige-coloured tiles on it - I have a theory that everyone in the UK has at some point lived in a house with one of those. Certainly anyone who's ever rented, anyway. It intrigues me that that particular type of tile, and the particular "design" of its application (even down to the slightly recessed detail where it steps in to the fireplace opening, and the stepped-in top corners) is so widespread. Can anyone explain why? Was it featured on some kind of 1970s home makeover show? Were the tiles on special offer in B&Q for an extended period? In fact I'm so interested in this question that I would start a new thread on it, if you wouldn't mind me stealing your photo lizzieloo.
 
I don't mind but the reason there are so many is the fact that they were fashionable during the post war economic boom. Folk had money in their pockets and so improved their homes.
Most homes were probably still as they were when they were built (terraced type Victorian houses is where you see them) Very unfashionable in the 50s
 
We've rented out our front room to a mate because we never used it. As he's still asleep I don't really want to go bursting in there taking pictures.
 
That fireplace with the beige-coloured tiles on it - I have a theory that everyone in the UK has at some point lived in a house with one of those. Certainly anyone who's ever rented, anyway. It intrigues me that that particular type of tile, and the particular "design" of its application (even down to the slightly recessed detail where it steps in to the fireplace opening, and the stepped-in top corners) is so widespread. Can anyone explain why? Was it featured on some kind of 1970s home makeover show? Were the tiles on special offer in B&Q for an extended period? In fact I'm so interested in this question that I would start a new thread on it, if you wouldn't mind me stealing your photo lizzieloo.

bit older than that

http://www.freepedia.co.uk/DIRHomesModerneFireplaces.php

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=3...0QXrv4CABw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoADgK&biw=1652&bih=941
 
That fireplace with the beige-coloured tiles on it - I have a theory that everyone in the UK has at some point lived in a house with one of those. Certainly anyone who's ever rented, anyway. It intrigues me that that particular type of tile, and the particular "design" of its application (even down to the slightly recessed detail where it steps in to the fireplace opening, and the stepped-in top corners) is so widespread. Can anyone explain why? Was it featured on some kind of 1970s home makeover show? Were the tiles on special offer in B&Q for an extended period? In fact I'm so interested in this question that I would start a new thread on it, if you wouldn't mind me stealing your photo lizzieloo.


First place I rented had one of those fireplaces...the corner recesses handy for candles and spider plants....like an 18 year old idiot I sprayed it over with 'stone' effect paint, that looked nothing like stone, more like congealed dirt. :facepalm: I would love one now.
 
I thought this site was meant to be some socialist utopia? There's some bourgeois-assed front rooms on here. What's wrong with sitting on the end of the bed and eating off an upturned fruit crate comrades?

(before anyone quite reasonably says 'pic or stfu', I don't have one or a camera. You can but imagine me smoking my pipe on the settle, resting my boots on the pig sleeping by the blackened range in the inglenook.)
 
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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:
 
That fireplace with the beige-coloured tiles on it - I have a theory that everyone in the UK has at some point lived in a house with one of those. Certainly anyone who's ever rented, anyway. It intrigues me that that particular type of tile, and the particular "design" of its application (even down to the slightly recessed detail where it steps in to the fireplace opening, and the stepped-in top corners) is so widespread. Can anyone explain why? Was it featured on some kind of 1970s home makeover show? Were the tiles on special offer in B&Q for an extended period? In fact I'm so interested in this question that I would start a new thread on it, if you wouldn't mind me stealing your photo lizzieloo.
I had one exactomundo,I think they are 50's though.I've now moved somewhere else but all the time (30 odd years) I lived there I had plans to kill that fireplace.
 
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