Show us yer house and house-related meddlings

[miss direct]

Not sure how the bed is coming but will have to manage it somehow. I should probably have waited a bit longer but was excited and I want to sleep in my own place and not have to go round somewhere else.

Painting is coming on really well and I've moved almost everything from my current place over. Just a few suitcases and a bit of food that I'll get in a taxi on Saturday.

This is the extent of my living room furniture! Any suggestions of carpet choice?


Kitchen looking a lot brighter than I'd envisioned but the paint hasn't dried yet.

 

[Epona]

I adore that ceiling lamp shade!

 

[prunus]

Not sure how the bed is coming but will have to manage it somehow. I should probably have waited a bit longer but was excited and I want to sleep in my own place and not have to go round somewhere else.

Painting is coming on really well and I've moved almost everything from my current place over. Just a few suitcases and a bit of food that I'll get in a taxi on Saturday.

This is the extent of my living room furniture! Any suggestions of carpet choice?
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Kitchen looking a lot brighter than I'd envisioned but the paint hasn't dried yet.
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Almost certainly the bed will arrive requiring some assembly - I think you said they’re not delivering past the front door? So it won’t be too complicated (touch wood!). You could either assemble it and disassemble it again to get the carpet fitted (in my experience carpet fitters insist on everything being taken out of a room), or (and this is what I’d do) leave it in its delivery boxes until the carpet is in, sleeping on just the mattress on the floor in the meantime, and then assemble it in place.

 

[WouldBe]

Not sure how the bed is coming but will have to manage it somehow.

Beds normally come in 4 parts, mattress, headboard and the base is in 2 pieces that bolt together.

This is the extent of my living room furniture! Any suggestions of carpet choice?
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What colour suite are you going for?
As you have mismatched furniture I'd go for a neutral colour for the carpet Like beige.

 

[Looby]

I agree that you should just go for a neutral carpet colour, I wouldn’t be trying to match it or going for anything too bold.
Ours was a biscuit colour when we moved in and because it was really cheap there was no stain protection on it and it was impossible to clean. It also got wrecked by cats and dogs.

We've just replaced the carpets on the stairs, hall and bedrooms and have gone for a twist pile which is apparently harder wearing and a dark grey because I was sick of beige/brown carpet.

We had to completely empty the rooms for fitting which is a nightmare in a full to the brim house. They did the fitting over two appointments with time in between to swap everything around.

 

[teuchter]

Always worth remembering carpets aren't compulsory and other flooring types are available...

 

[kabbes]

Always worth remembering carpets aren't compulsory and other flooring types are available...

Although I personally would like to remind the kabbess that carpets aren’t prohibited and other flooring types are not necessarily ideal.

 

[teuchter]

Have I done a thread on how carpets probably should be prohibited? Can't remember.

 

[kabbes]

Have I done a thread on how carpets probably should be prohibited? Can't remember.

I do seem to vaguely recall such a thing. Anyway, you would have one adherent from this household.

One consequence of this is that the carpet in our hallway that should have been replaced 10 years ago is still present and our bedroom still has a dodgy bare floor 2 years after the extension was completed, because she doesn’t want a carpet and I don’t want not a carpet.

 

[miss direct]

I'm getting carpets. As much as I'd like a proper wooden floor with nice Turkish carpets on top, it's not happening.

Never had carpets in Turkey but they are nice in a cold UK winter. I also like to sit on the floor.

 

[oryx]

I do seem to vaguely recall such a thing. Anyway, you would have one adherent from this household.

One consequence of this is that the carpet in our hallway that should have been replaced 10 years ago is still present and our bedroom still has a dodgy bare floor 2 years after the extension was completed, because she doesn’t want a carpet and I don’t want not a carpet.

Our lower bedrooms, landing and stairs are covered in fourteen year old, worn and stained carpet which we were just about to replace with hard flooring, when the first lockdown hit.

Prior to that we'd told a decorator to not worry too much about the carpet as we were just about to replace it.

I'm now having massive second thoughts. Not sure about getting up and walking barefoot on a cold hard floor in the middle of winter.

I haven't yet told my OH.

 

[WouldBe]

Our lower bedrooms, landing and stairs are covered in fourteen year old, worn and stained carpet which we were just about to replace with hard flooring, when the first lockdown hit.

Prior to that we'd told a decorator to not worry too much about the carpet as we were just about to replace it.

I'm now having massive second thoughts. Not sure about getting up and walking barefoot on a cold hard floor in the middle of winter.

I haven't yet told my OH.

Get some slippers.

 

[shakespearegirl]

Get some slippers.

Was so glad when we finally ripped out the skanky carpet from the one room left and replaced it with floorboards. Helped with our moth problem to…

now living with tiles and rugs in Portugal, slippers are def the way to go!

 

[shakespearegirl]

Get some slippers.

Was so glad when we finally ripped out the skanky carpet from the one room left and replaced it with floorboards. Helped with our moth problem to…

now living with tiles and rugs in Portugal, slippers are def the way to go

 

[miss direct]

Beds normally come in 4 parts, mattress, headboard and the base is in 2 pieces that bolt together.


What colour suite are you going for?
As you have mismatched furniture I'd go for a neutral colour for the carpet Like beige.

I will probably just get a sofa, hadn't thought about colour. Carpet needs to be neutral sure. It's a shoes off household so shouldn't get (too) mucky. Perhaps a sort of sandy colour.

I don't really have mismatched furniture. The drawers aren't staying in the living room and none of the other stuff needs to either really.

I'll clean the bedroom carpet as best as I can before the bed arrives tomorrow - what's the best product to use? I'll go to B&M/Home Bargains later to pick something up to sprinkle on the carpet before vacuuming.

 

[clicker]

I will probably just get a sofa, hadn't thought about colour. Carpet needs to be neutral sure. It's a shoes off household so shouldn't get (too) mucky. Perhaps a sort of sandy colour.

I don't really have mismatched furniture. The drawers aren't staying in the living room and none of the other stuff needs to either really.

I'll clean the bedroom carpet as best as I can before the bed arrives tomorrow - what's the best product to use? I'll go to B&M/Home Bargains later to pick something up to sprinkle on the carpet before vacuuming.

It'd prob only be about £25 for a local carpet cleaner to come around and do it thoroughly, with machine. Local Facebook would have recommendations.

 

[miss direct]

Ok, but I really haven't got time. Working till evening tonight (have 29 more portfolios to mark) then bed arriving early in the morning.

 

[clicker]

Ok, but I really haven't got time. Working till evening tonight (have 29 more portfolios to mark) then bed arriving early in the morning.

Could bed be put in another room while it's being done ? It would maybe take 45 mins tops.

 

[miss direct]

It could, but I will be getting a new carpet so am really just after a short term fix.

 

[bimble]

I'll clean the bedroom carpet as best as I can before the bed arrives tomorrow - what's the best product to use?

this, if there's actual stains.


Don't buy the bright pink thing its crap.
I don't know what the point of the sprinke products are supposed to be, suspect they just make yr carpet smell like chemical berries or something.

 

[teuchter]

I don't know what the point of the sprinke products are supposed to be, suspect they just make yr carpet smell like chemical berries or something.

I reckon that's all they do - how is putting some powder on something then taking it off again going to make it any cleaner?

It wouldn't work on smelly old socks so no reason it would on a carpet, which is basically a giant flattened old sock that lots of different people have been wearing.

 

[miss direct]

I think you use your curtains in a different way to me!

Instead of marking like I am meant to be doing, I am currently perusing options for two open doorways (kitchen and a sort of cupboard thing upstairs) - bead curtains, Japanese door tapestries, stringy things..so much choice.

 

[bimble]

our bedroom still has a dodgy bare floor 2 years after the extension was completed, because she doesn’t want a carpet and I don’t want not a carpet.

I am intrigued by this. Thought you didn’t get involved apart from the paying for things part.
How do you think the matter will be resolved? Presume she’s tried to mollify you with understated Persian rugs but you’re not having it.
Is it a dodgy bare floor as in plywood ?

 

[oryx]

Get some slippers.

Already got them! I do like the feel of walking barefoot on carpet, though.

Cats are a factor in this situation - it's easier to clean hard flooring and they don't wake you up at 7am by scratching on it...on the other hand, I'm not keen on the prospect of hearing their little claws rattle up and down the landing at that time either.

 

[bimble]

When I bought this house after being in it as tenant for a year, the most obvious instant change was that I could happily let the cat scratch the carpet to his hearts content because it’s mine now, his and mine, and the tenancy contract is in the bin.

 

[kabbes]

I am intrigued by this. Thought you didn’t get involved apart from the paying for things part.
How do you think the matter will be resolved? Presume she’s tried to mollify you with understated Persian rugs but you’re not having it.
Is it a dodgy bare floor as in plywood ?

Ah, well, I have simplified the story for narrative effect, ie lied. The truth is a sorrier tale altogether of procrastination and thrift alongside the dispute over the benefits of carpet. The kabbess is never satisfied with just eg floorboards, she wants to source some kind of god-knows antique oak relaid bullshit that will no doubt costs a thousand pounds per square foot, but she is (a) too much of a perfectionist (b) too preoccupied and (c) too procrastinatey to have achieved this. Meanwhile, I have no incentive to assist because I want carpet plus I don’t want to pay whatever insane price she has in mind. So we have, yes, a combination of plywood and old unsanded floorboards with dangerous old nails. And our dining room Persian rug on top.

 

[bimble]

I am on the kabbesses side 100% sorry.

 

[bimble]

Does she ever go away for a day? You could probably get a nice cheap nylon carpet fitted whilst she's out and good natured hilarity would no doubt ensue.

 

[WouldBe]

Already got them! I do like the feel of walking barefoot on carpet, though.

Can't remember where I saw it, probably on a comedy show, but someone made some flipflop things from carpet samples so got the feeling of carpet under barefoot while walking on bare floorboards.

 

[WouldBe]

Ah, well, I have simplified the story for narrative effect, ie lies. The truth is a sorrier tale altogether of procrastination and thrift alongside the dispute over the benefits of carpet. The kabbess is never satisfied with just eg floorboards, she wants to source some kind of god-knows antique oak relaid bullshit that will no doubt costs a thousand pounds per square foot, but she is (a) too much of a perfectionist (b) too preoccupied and (c) too procrastinatey to have achieved this. Meanwhile, I have no incentive to assist because I want carpet plus I don’t want to pay whatever insane price she has in mind. So we have, yes, a combination of plywood and old unsanded floorboards with dangerous old nails. And our dining room Persian rug on top.

As soon as she gets a splinter or catches her foot on a rusty nail she will come round to your way of thinking.