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.
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 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?
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.
That coaster at the top right of the coffee table.....it's not perfectly aligned, sort it out!
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.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've edited to explain
That's my angelWho's the guy against the wall Shirl?
That's my angel
Wage gave it away to the local pub when we got a new one last year. They dyed the cover dark blue.I want that sofa! Not that it would fit in my little Victorian terraced house, mind...