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Love the bathroom^^ Looks over shoulder for IHN sneaking out
tiles are the same as our kitchen when we moved in apart from being actual brown and flooring was dark brown carpet tiles like velcro. bathroom suite was avacado enhanced with broad hand painted vertical stripes of salmon pink, green,blue and red acrylic paint that took some covering!!
I think avacado etc will make a comeback in a retro type of way. it just needs a few GDs to set it off
I'm surprised no one's mentioned the STW favourite - woodburning stoves? We had them in our last place - they were better than an open fire / poxy gas fires, but they were dusty and needed maintenance. We had the option in our new home, but declined.
I’m surprised no one’s mentioned the STW favourite – woodburning stoves?
Apart from.the number of times where they were mentioned ?
Re that tiled bathroom.
Horizontal tiled surfaces... That's the worst thing mentioned.
Also bathroom basins should extend the the wall there should never be anything horizontal next to a basin that isn't COMPLETELY waterproof and perfectly smooth or hard to reach.
I can take a photo of my living room that will show.
Grey wall
A GIANT MidCentury sideboard in teak
Bare floorboards with mad gaps
Mustard rug
two african drums
an early anglepoise
i can do a wall mounted teak cadovius unit
an Eames bird
a Peace race (cycling) poster
a Munich 72 Otl Aicher poster (real not repro!)
wood floor
grey walls (Little greene Rubine Ashes, specially selected as it has a tiny bit of red in it to add warmth as not south facing and looks spot on under 4000ºk lighting)
Henning Kjaernulf teak coffee table that looks like it’s from a care home/institution
Johannes Andersen for CFC Sikebourg rosewood table that I’m too scared to put anything on in case it gets marked.
white/grey/black Beni Ourain rug (real not fake)
fake repro Poul Kjærholm PK31 armchair, can’t afford a real one, to be replaced with a PK22 as i find them more comfortable.
copies of Cereal and Rouler mag on Tomado shelving.
no African drums but a Midwinter ‘Siena’ staffs pottery coffee pot.
would like your angle poise.
most of you will hate the above, i love the stuff.
a 1986 bathroom, complete with lino, mouldy silicone and the worst tiling ever seen, thats next on the list.
a 1986 bathroom, complete with lino, mouldy silicone and the worst tiling ever seen, thats next on the list.
I might contest that....
The Anglepoise is lovely it's not perfect but all the little bumps and scratches have come through being in the family for so long.
I rewired it and it does look good.
anyone on here?
I appear to be stuck in the 90s from what people say!
1890’s?
Inventing words , please let it be a short fad
Inventing words , please let it be a short fad
You'll be first up against the roombox when the controlfight comes.
Balderbollox
Horizontal tiled surfaces… That’s the worst thing mentioned.
Oh yes. I actually tiled a kitchen work top when bought my first house. Regretted it almost instantly. Kept it for a while but eventually got rid for a normal work top. Horrible thing to keep clean!
I'd actually take a bathroom that had been COMPLETELY molded out of plastic and just dropped into place.
No joints, no sharp internal corners, no fixings screwed in, plumbing accessible from outside.
everything wipecleanable or blasted with a hose pipe. and small.
Fans of mid-century interiors will find lots of awesomeness here - a collection of photos from the Barbican
https://antonrodriguez.co.uk/barbicanresidents
I’d actually take a bathroom that had been COMPLETELY molded out of plastic and just dropped into place.
No joints, no sharp internal corners, no fixings screwed in, plumbing accessible from outside.
everything wipecleanable or blasted with a hose pipe. and small.
I’ve stayed in Japanese hotel rooms made like this, except it’s the whole room - bed platform, WC and shower moulded in GRP.
I’d actually take a bathroom that had been COMPLETELY molded out of plastic and just dropped into place.
No joints, no sharp internal corners, no fixings screwed in, plumbing accessible from outside.
everything wipecleanable or blasted with a hose pipe. and small.
My son's student halls of residence has exactly that. All plumbing is on one wall, with access panel in the corridor outside.
I have also stayed in a Holiday Inn (Dumfries?) that had similar.
I’d actually take a bathroom that had been COMPLETELY molded out of plastic and just dropped into place.
I've seen loads of them, usually in shitey hotels where they've installed pod bathrooms.
They are invariably useless as they end up with cracks in them which require replacement of the entire pod.
The Station Hotel in Perth had some that I had a contract to rip out and replace about 15 years ago.
Sticking with the bathroom theme - pop up plugs. A solution for a non-problem. Replace a simple rubber bung with a plug and a mass of rods and linkages that require access to the back of the sink or bath. Ensure the mechanism only lifts the plug a few mm so the bath drains slowly and clogs easily. With that slow flow, increase the chance of horizontal pipe runs blocking over time. And charge. And then charge £20 for it.
Why????
Where are we at with New England facia board cladding
I live on the seaside and think it looks ok locally
Light grey obviously
Over cream or white
Grey windows
Up amd down led lights
Nantucket meets Southampton
So in summary, any decor of any style is dated, or will be soon?
My son’s student halls of residence has exactly that. All plumbing is on one wall, with access panel in the corridor outside.
We have these at student accom. They are truly shite, showers drain away so slowly due to tiny drainage slots and block up continually with hairs. To access sink to unblock need to remove shower screen, I'd say 90% of the LED lights behind the mirror have failed Walker Modular don't give a chuff their aftersales is awful.
https://www.walkermodular.com/bathroom-pods/grp-bathroom-pods/v1-v1-ext-composite-bathroom-pod
*self cleaning surface.....aye right
Sticking with the bathroom theme – pop up plugs. A solution for a non-problem. Replace a simple rubber bung with a plug and a mass of rods and linkages that require access to the back of the sink or bath. Ensure the mechanism only lifts the plug a few mm so the bath drains slowly and clogs easily. With that slow flow, increase the chance of horizontal pipe runs blocking over time. And charge. And then charge £20 for it.
Not forgetting standing on the ****ing thing when you're having a shower.
On another bathroom theme - corner sinks. Too small to actually wash your hands I and an utter bastard to install. Only one I did (not my choice) had a hole in each back edge for the m10 stud to go through. And by hole I mean literally big enough for the stud. Take a moment to visualise the mechanics required to get both studs into both holes. Oh and they have to be in the wall to begin with, no clearance to install from the sink side.
Gave up and used a bolt through the framing I had luckily installed on one edge. Bastard thing never did get levelled properly.
why in gods name would you want a bath in your bedroom or watch your partner have a bath whilst you are in bed. it’s just really weird and future generations will judge us harshly
Don't kink shame!
Citizen M hotels have bathroom pods that are actually pretty nice.
why in gods name would you want a bath in your bedroom or watch your partner have a bath whilst you are in bed. it’s just really weird and future generations will judge us harshly
Ah yes, one of our Sheffield houses had a #pornshower at the end of the bed. Illuminated with downlighter and wall light in the shower. Urghh.
If I had a bay window with a nice view, instead of the telephone exchange, I'd happily have a nice free standing bath there, be lovely to chill after a ride in there watching the sunset. And I quite happily watching my partner in the bath, we ain't all married to kathy burke/johnny vegas* lookalikes.
*Delete as appropriate.
we ain’t all married to [s]kathy burke[/s]/johnny vegas* lookalikes.
My wife would disagree
Are plantation shutters on the list?
Checking for “a friend”
Yes, every second house has them here (SW London). Nothing says boring middle class aspirational sheep more than a grey front door and the same shutters as everyone else in the street.
Citizen M hotels have bathroom pods that are actually pretty nice.
Until you go for a heavy vegetarian dump in what is effectively the bedroom and then they are less appealing. (Citizen M, Zurich)
Went for a jaunt round the miles and miles of private (gated KEEP OUT) south coast estates last night to avoid the South Downs clart.
Cor, there are styles and types of outside lights that you wouldn't believe. It starts with your uppy downy thing and just gets weirder. As for double grey plastic doors with asymmetric windees, it's a smorgasbord.
You lot would have a field day.
I was most impressed by the roads. Whole estates done in perfectly smooth silent flat tarmac. I'd love to take the kids skateboarding but the fat men in hi viz would shout at us.
Apologies for the Daily Mail content but this seemed appropriate... 😬
Satellite dishes and security cameras.
My wife would disagree
At least your funnier
At least
youryou're funnier
Don’t kink shame!
i get the sexy bath time thing, but what else are you going to do with it the other 363 days of the year?
Where are we at with New England facia board cladding
I like it..... transformed our place by the beach
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Not gonna lie that looks good sharkbait.
Significant improvement.
My suspicion is that modern interiors won't date that badly as for most of the last 20 years they've been so bland and unadventurous. The developer standard of magnolia walls and a gloss white kitchen thats' standard now has been so for at least 15 years - as have white bathroom suites and a general beige/whiteness.
50's/60's/70's were seemingly far more adventurous times for interiors. I reckon all of these interiors in that Guardian piece look fantastic (except the 40's). And there's a love for most periods of 'authentic' design done well - see https://www.wowhaus.co.uk/ for loads of examples of which this is one of the most dramatic recently
Although this modernised 50's place is great too
Full of amazing houses. What always puzzles me is the people who've either bought, or in some cases had built (as they're the original owners) an amazing modern house and furnished it without any care for that.
https://www.wowhaus.co.uk/2020/08/30/1960s-midcentury-modern-house-rait/
or this potentially amazing house in Ambleside that's got an interior like a bad B&B
There aren’t even any pictures of houses with... floor to ceiling “specialist” pornography.
I thought that was what squirrelking was referring to earlier:
Yeah, remind me of Emma’s flat in Dalmeny Street, down to the sticky grot stuck down the wider gaps.
But working back through the thread
Fitted carpets as a bad thing? Not sure. Downstairs yes, hard floors and some rugs all the way (except maybe in a snug?) but having built a house with wooden floors upstairs I'd have wall to wall carpet in bedrooms if I was building again.
Lighting - as already said, just because you can with LEDs doesn't mean you should. Most uses of LED strip will be for the bin (and I've never seen coloured lighting internally that looks good, though I think it's great in a garden).
A grid of fixed ceiling spots gives horrible, harsh, light - good for cleaning the house but not for living with. Standard developer/electrician approach puts about twice the number needed in as well. Trashes soundproofing, fire resistance, air tightness as well while you're at it. While we were building we rented a top floor flat in a victorian conversion that had bare floorboards with big gaps so we could hear every word in the flat below AND see the back of their ceiling spots (!)
Taps Anything other than a trad turn tap or a single lever is a mistake. A friend rented a place with waterfall sink tap where you turned it on by sliding two 'bars'. Every time I used it I took about 4 goes to actually get the water to come on (push/pull/twist?)
Big opening doors I was dubious as to how often they'd get used but it's surprising. Uncle and aunt have bi-folds on the side of a hill in Hereford and they spend loads of time open.
Most of our place is pretty minimal but the downstairs loo got an 'unconventional' suite and black walls, but then we acquired enough of this wallpaper to do two of them....
and the kitchen is matt grey rather than gloss white (which we naively thought wouldn't show fingerprints and splashes...)
Sticking with the bathroom theme – pop up plugs. A solution for a non-problem.
I'm so glad you posted this, as I've opened this thread like twelvety times to say the same thing and keep forgetting.
My new place has clicky sink plugs that operate like the button on top of a clicky pen. Click-click to close, click-click again to open. Except, the seal is... how can I explain this, vertical rather than horizontal, does that make sense? It's between the bore of the pipe and the circumference of the plug cylinder, so no amount of downforce will create a better seal and it's a race against time or constant top-ups to get washed before it all dribbles away. And once you've dried your hands and realised that you've forgotten to pull (push) the plug you've got to fish around in the water to drain it and dry your hands again. It's a truly shit solution to a problem that never existed in the first place.
There aren’t even any pictures of houses with… floor to ceiling “specialist” pornography.
will my sex dungeon date badly?
we acquired enough of this wallpaper to do two of them….
You should've taken your own advice.
just because you can... doesn’t mean you should.
I absolutely love the kitchen, but that throne room is Jack Duckworth's Stone Cladding levels of boak.
This thread shows how different tastes are. that kitchen to me is horribly dark and the extractor looks like it just recirculates with no connection to the outside. I suspect that kitchen will date really badly and I loathe the 3 low hanging lights.
suspect that kitchen will date really badly
And yet you think black counter top won't!?
At least b3akers looks like he has done it for him to his tastes. Not just a box of bland to maintain the future value
Me and TJ can agree on this one!
Not just a box of bland to maintain the future value
Mmm yeah the bold juxtaposition of grey with grey is very striking 😛
Not just a box of bland to
maintain the future valuenot alienate future tenants and to provide a blank canvas for them.
TJ is a landlord! TRAITOR TO THE REVOLUTION
and the extractor looks like it just recirculates with no connection to the outside
Nothing wrong with that if it's fitted with charcoal filters - we've gone from external extraction to recirc with the filters and, although I was dubious initially, I have to admit it's very effective.
(you do need to replace the filters about every 12 months though)
TJ is a landlord! TRAITOR TO THE REVOLUTION
Nowt wrong with champagne socialism
*opens bottle of Bolly*
Mmm yeah the bold juxtaposition of grey with grey is very striking
The bog is more of a juxta of John Major and death in paradise!
Mmm yeah the bold juxtaposition of grey with grey is very striking
I'm particularly impressed that the cat matches as well 🙂
I'm surprised no-one's mentioned 'outdoor rooms' with acres of decking and built-in barbeques. In the North of England (or anywhere on these Isles, really) FFS.
Not just a box of bland to maintain the future value not alienate future tenants and to provide a blank canvas for them.
And there's the rub. You don't actually have to live with it.
@b33k34 - I really like the cloakroom
At least b3akers looks like he has done it for him to his tastes.
^^This every time
B33k34 - “like” your kitchen, that’s pretty much perfect for me regarding design and colour.
I’m surprised no-one’s mentioned ‘outdoor rooms’ with acres of decking and built-in barbeques. In the North of England (or anywhere on these Isles, really) FFS.
See my comment about oversized wood fired pizza ovens
This thread shows how different tastes are. that kitchen to me is horribly dark and the extractor looks like it just recirculates with no connection to the outside. I suspect that kitchen will date really badly and I loathe the 3 low hanging lights.
Its floor to ceiling glass across the back and a strip of glazed roof front to back (that you can sort of see beyond the table). The lights are dimmed to reduce reflections for the photo - it's not a dark room. The hanging lights are cast concrete - much more interesting IRL.
But yes, the house pallette is pretty consistently white/grey/grey/stainless steel/walnut...
This must have been while we were still finishing - looks like I'd only just planted the garden. 
House is highly airtight so hood is recirculation but has a c5kg container of charcoal that only needs replacing about every 4 years and a Dyson style vortex to spin out the grease. Then theres a whole house heat recovery ventilation system that boosts when the hood is on. It's really effective and you don't get any smells through the house (or even to the living room that is semi open plan to the kitchen)
Looks nice in that photo, the table is cool.
To be fair, I'm not a fan of dangly lights generally. We have them in the trendy new office in Blackburn* and all you do is **** your head on them constantly.
(* - Yes, that's possible, Blackburn can have trendy offices. Shut up. Your mum.)
While we're at it, here's the living room. Though I should have tidied up a bit...
A TV at the correct height! Halle-F‘ing-lujah
Is the cat a pet or professional accessory?
B£ looks less dark but still dark - a lot better in that pic tho.
Trailrat - actually I really like the neutral colours and minimalist look. Tastes differ.
My real pet hate is plastic widows - loathsome things.
Oh - for giggles this is the kitchen I built for me. When I say built this was eaves space full of stuctural timbers. I reclaimed doors and skirtings so they match and some of the beams are are real structural timbers and some fakeery ( but real 150 yr old reclaimed timber) 25 years ago. dated?
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Ha our tastes differ yet my kitchens (from 2020) is a little less orange but almost that.....
That THAT is a dark kitchen.
Its not really dark although it looks it in that pic taken at night! the orange is exaggerated as well but the pillar and beams its the natural colour of the wood
so trail rat - my 25 yr old kitchen you think is not dated but my 3 yr old one is?
Maybe you had better(ok different) taste when you were young ;)..... 25 years ago you'd have been my age or a little older perhaps 🙂
I mean your kitchen looks like something you have done for you it looks like a home.
The rental one looks like the kitchen equivalent to jogging pants
A TV at the correct height! Halle-F‘ing-lujah
It's not though. The bottom of the TV should be eye level that's atleast a foot to low*
Its not as simple as that but it should be higher unless you sit upright.
TVs above fireplaces are defo worse though
It’s not though. The bottom of the TV should be eye level that’s atleast a foot to low*
Probably easier* and far more specific to say the centre of the TV should be at eye level when viewed perpendicular to the angle of the seat back.
*as it avoids unnecessary arguments. In theory. Not here though.
The bottom of the TV should be eye level that’s atleast a foot to low*
Hmm. New one on me. It’s centred at eye level when on the sofa. Much more comfortable that looking up at a screen IMO
Hmm. New one on me. It’s centred at eye level when on the sofa. Much more comfortable that looking up at a screen IMO
I've not really explained it well. To me if that is centred at eye level you are leaning back with your chin on your chest with it higher you aren't so much looking up as looking forward from your leaning back position.
Yours looks so uncomfortable my neck is hurting thinking about it. If it works for you though that's cool. Atleast it's not on a bit of furniture with loads of cables, big fan off wall mounting.