leanderman
Street Party: July 2
I'm standing by curtains and film.
Work starts on the eagerly awaited new Foxtons office on Brixton Road
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I'm standing by curtains and film.
Manter
Lunch Mob
The pushing was fine... The going back to work is more complicated with a small thing that won't even let you put him down....
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
oh are you a mother now?! congratulations
Wear him on your back like in Africa. Just joking of course, I must warn you that once I had one I never ever wanted to go back to work ever again.
Now that I am crisis free, I'd like to come round to see the baby. Let me know if that's allowed.
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Our stairwell.
Manter
Lunch Mob
Yes
will pm you later
Manter
Lunch Mob
Think our front door may be that colour... I didn't paint it so don't know!
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
they are much more expensive. I imagine they'll be wave 2 gentrification...window film is more taste than money*
I guess if the alternative is endlessly replacing your stereo they start to look more attractive, but they do look dreadful. Make an area feel unsafe too, IYSWIM- bit of a self fulfilling prophecy. There were loads of bars on windows and doors in the bit of leeds I lived in when I was up there, and it was all a bit depressing
*I actually like shutters. And my major objection to net curtains (I think we've discussed this before?) is that many of them aren't clean. Like the ones in the house opposite mine, that are dark grey, with a very suspicious brown stain on one. Ugh
Ah, the brown stain, where the myth of the bloke wiping his cock on the curtains probably came from.
Manter
Lunch Mob
Eyw! I was thinking blood, now I'll never be able to look out of my front window again!Ah, the brown stain, where the myth of the bloke wiping his cock on the curtains probably came from.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Sorry!
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Given that Dulux etc do a huge range of colours, can Farrow and Ball be worth the extra expense? Does it last longer or something?
snowy_again
Slush
No, but Dulux colour match easily copies F&B paint.
Manter
Lunch Mob
It supposedly has a different finish- a Matt chalky finish that isn't available in cheaper paints. And there is the whole heritage formulations, low toxicity thing- they don't have plastics in them for example and are safe to use on toys etc. Plus all made in Dorset, British company, British manufacturing.
Like many premium ranges its mostly, IMO, about providing reassurance that they are doing something 'tasteful' for people who aren't naturally creative or lack confidence in their own taste. But no harm in it, I generally like people buying things from British craftsman brands not global conglomerates
Rushy
basically a scrotum
I think the finish is nicer. It does have a thick matt chalky depth to it. That said, it is one of those things that I might only notice if I stopped and compared the two side by side and for that reason I stick to more standard paints.It supposedly has a different finish- a Matt chalky finish that isn't available in cheaper paints. And there is the whole heritage formulations, low toxicity thing- they don't have plastics in them for example and are safe to use on toys etc. Plus all made in Dorset, British company, British manufacturing.
Like many premium ranges its mostly, IMO, about providing reassurance that they are doing something 'tasteful' for people who aren't naturally creative or lack confidence in their own taste. But no harm in it, I generally like people buying things from British craftsman brands not global conglomerates
Rushy
basically a scrotum
shakespearegirl
just worked out taglines
No this is ours
http://www.farrow-ball.com/lamp-room-gray/colours//fcp-product/100088
We use Farrow and Ball as Mr Shakes is increadibly sensitive to chemicals. We'd have to move out and not come back for weeks after it was painted if we used normal paint
Rushy
basically a scrotum
I disagree. I think veering from the Fuck Foxtons thread into comparing net curtains and shades of Farrow & Ball is quite surreal!
Manter
Lunch Mob
all property.... we can do better!
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Grey is nice, but I also like the greeny olivey grey colour. Funnily enough, I was in Homebase today and found myself looking at paint, and whilst standing there thinking it was well expensive. Then I realised I was looking at Farrow & Ball stuff! £35 for a 5 litre tin I think it was
Frumious B.
Well-Known Member
0 out of 10
. Unless you were buying materials for the crucifixion of estate agents.
Manter
Lunch Mob
in their defence, making paint without chemical 'shortcuts' is a labour intensive process, their materials are expensive (resins etc) plus british manufacturing is much more expensive than high volume manufacturing in low cost locations as used by their competitors. Also, IME, some of the premium paints take fewer coats- cheap white paint is the ultimate false economy...
Rushy
basically a scrotum
Yes. And getting a cheaper estate agent is also a false economy...
Bloody hell. You guys are hard to control!
shakespearegirl
just worked out taglines
I was unconvinced when Mr Shakes insisted using Farrow and Ball but having painted the house when we first moved in I was really surprised at how much less stinky it was than normal paint and it does need fewer coats.
The paint lasts really well and we are only having it re-painted as I did such a bad job and now we've had the bathroom done it the rest of the house looks shabby. I put my foot down and we are getting it done professionally this time.
My argument was helped by the fact that Mr Shakes still hasn't done the bits I can't reach and I finished it 2.5 years ago!
The paint lasts really well and we are only having it re-painted as I did such a bad job and now we've had the bathroom done it the rest of the house looks shabby. I put my foot down and we are getting it done professionally this time.
My argument was helped by the fact that Mr Shakes still hasn't done the bits I can't reach and I finished it 2.5 years ago!
Manter
Lunch Mob
I have NEVER used Foxtons! <<spits>>
I once gave them my phone number as I wanted to look at a house they had for sale and they then called me daily for three weeks trying to get me to look at stuff that was the wrong spec, for the wrong price, in the wrong area. They are a nightmare.
*The house I wanted to look at went under offer, which they didn't tell me until I was in their car- they took me to see something else, it was wildly overpriced, the agent tried to give me a patronising little lecture on housing economics (which was incorrect in both generality and specifics), gave me dangerously incompetent advice on what building work it needed (but what would I know, I'm just a little woman right?) and offered me sight of a survey paid for by a previous attempted purchaser, which is against their code of conduct
Manter
Lunch Mob
tapas would be a good segue. Suitably surreal
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
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I'm going to B&Q on Sunday as well
Oh, by the way, I picked up a Farrow and Ball paint chart. It's very pretty
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