post a picture of your front room
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teuchter
je suis teuchter
This is our old living room
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
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
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
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.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
clicker
nanook rubs it....
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.
I would love one now.
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
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.)
(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.)
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
That's for trust-fund anarchists rebelling against Daddy for a bit before they get bored of it.
Our fireplace was deffo a 50s one, this is from the York museum, a 50s living room.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/megara_rp/7310479742/
I like the chairs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/megara_rp/7310479742/
I like the chairs
Stig
Condimentalist
Just got this burner installed. as you can see the paint isn't quite dry round the edge and I've lit it already.
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
Our fireplace was deffo a 50s one, this is from the York museum, a 50s living room.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/megara_rp/7310479742/
I like the chairs
That fire's great. I bet it even smells nice.
mwgdrwg
Be a Pisces. Jam.
That coaster at the top right of the coffee table.....it's not perfectly aligned, sort it out!
That coaster at the top right of the coffee table.....it's not perfectly aligned, sort it out!
Sorry.
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.
I've edited to explain
That's my angel
I want that sofa! Not that it would fit in my little Victorian terraced house, mind...
Glitter
Goddess of rock!
That's my angel
Ah is that wings on his back? I thought he was a warrior and that was a thingy full of arrows.
Wage gave it away to the local pub when we got a new one last year. They dyed the cover dark blue.
