I have this

but I am unsure

I need something that will go with an all-white bedroom (walls, bed linen) chocolate brown carpet, and chandeliers with lilac drops on

ta muchly

OI

at least look at the damn fabric

oh thanks everyone for all your input

it is lovely - is to to be The Feature in the room?

yes MrsB it is

thank you for looking

I am only alarmed because, having 2 girls, that hot pink colour second left is all over the house

perhaps it is A Theme

we are dead lucky because we have the factory shop for Designers Guild just round the corner

they also do Cath Kidston but I am not keen sadly

I don't like it I'm afraid - only because I really don't like that sort of "paint" effect on fabric...

let me look for an alternative for you, hang on

hmm - I admit I would be wary of introducing barbie pink into the master bedroom

what does DH say?

dh quite likes it, but he likes stripes which is why I got it

tbh I am desperate for a blind NOW - we are being woken at 5am by blinding sunshine. So there is a bit of 'oh let's just get some bloody fabric' about the whole enterprise

but have to admit it is not my Dream Blind

how about this? might not go with your chandelier but it is funky

I like this one if you are picking up the lavender - I really like it actually here

pph funnily enough I brought a swatch of the first one home for the living room but dh was not happy with it

I don't like the other one sorry

I can never get too excited about designers guild somehow, their colours are never quite right for me anyway
I'd look at osborne & little and maybe romo too

I'd also move away from stripes and look at large scale pattern/ large simple florals, but modern and funky, personally

and I'd pick up the lilac a bit

look at this romo graphic brown flowers on cream background yum

it is too frustrating looking at fabrics online
get thee to john lewis girl

and the key thing with husbands is to present them with three swatches that you like and could be happy with, and make them pick one. don't allow them total veto!!

pph that one is very similar to our alcove curtain in the playroom

oh pph it is miles to John Lewis

if I go to this factory shop it is 2 mins I can take dd2 and it is FIVE POUNDS A METRE ffs

you can see the appeal

it is over an hour's drive to John Lewis

hello all

am a big fan of romo prints

well, in magazines anyway

have been ssubscribing to hous enad garden fo blardy age

now i go and buy a house whee all soft funishings ae included in sale



mind, they are lovely

have been eyeing that brown flowers on cream background one fo ages, pph

was thinking of a bedspread

the Romo flowers are lovely

I have been given free rein to decorate dd's room (without DH's input) in the new house so am collecting ideas...

oh god £5pm? fantastic. where is this factory shop please?? that playroom fabric is great. you obviously have superb taste and the painterly pinks stripes is just an aberration . I'd go graphic and simple and probably stay away from pink, personally... but at £5pm you can afford to make a mistake and replace in a couple of years!

tutt I'm gearing up for a full repaint and recarpet and new curtains and blinds not quite everywhere but in a lot of places.... but SO can't face it. I think I'll live in squalor for another year or so and then at least it will be 10 years since it was all last done from top to toe (not by me I might add). I'll feel better if I think it has all seen a decade of service...

when do you move btw?

oh Tutter I did not realise you have bought and it is all done

well done!

ahh mrs b but does dd have a view? because I did my dd's bedroom 2 years ago (she was 8) and ended up with pink on cream toile de jouy curtains, window seats and seat cushions, and pale pink O&L wallpaper, and a romantic twirly cream cast iron bed - all very nice but slightly 1980s and not at all funky. Still it is what she wanted.

designers guild can be a bit acid pph yes

i would avoid romo as everywhere imo although that obviously means it is well liked!

colefax and fowler is my latest fad!

PPH she is 9m

don't you have a curtains and blinds lady, peep?

i would ask someone to help

you just get to do the fun bit, surely? browsing fabric swatches while sipping coffee

4th august

hoping to exchange next week

msbee, i shall be joining you in oxon (not bucks - phew, eh, peep? )

ooh pph designers guild do that hortense in a divine red and pink (muted) divine

fabric shop is here

I have to go again, don't I?

ok went back

now have some frightening flowers and a print and some noncy relief pattern

<confused>

dh has to decide

no i don't have a curtains and blinds lady - last moved 6 years ago and curtains and blinds were already here, done 2 years previously with immense taste and vast expense so have stayed with them....

lol mrsb - quick, quick, do her room before she is capable of forming (and communicating) opinions lolol

capp - lancaster? that's no good!
hmmm. what is the print like? only one without a dodgy adjective, I'm assuming it is the best of the bunch...

bmcq actually I have just bought some designers guild fabric for the first time ever - but it is a seriously retro dark brown wide wale corduroy for reupholstering a chair. I hope it is going to be retro chic but it might just look 70s and terrible... ah well!

i am using an osborne and little 'hessian effect' wallpaper below dado in hall stairs and landing pph

methinks 'retro chic' too but a couple of folk looked at the book with horror and recounted stories of 1970's!

ooh is that the papilio series? can't remember but I know exactly what you mean. I LOVE hessian wallpaper.... yummy. what colour?

yes it is the papilio vinyl ( you know your stuff! )- very boring colour a sort of warm beige for below the rail in hs and landings

the rasberry one in the collection is to DIE for!

there is also a bright grass green which is excellent I seem to recall
the papilio fabric is also great and v tactile yet subtle...

<<<ponceometer alert>>>

oh, go on then pph

if you were decorating, from scratch, a long skinny room with a s-facing window at one end for a 9mo girl, (with the expectation it will last at least 5 years) what would you do?

I assume the door is at one skinny end and the s-facing window is at the other?
I would paint the far skinny wall (with the window) a bright warm colour to make the room seem less long and skinny (the wall will sort of seem closer) - maybe a raspberry or orange or a rich leafy slightly acidy green or something nice. I'd paint the other walls a warm ivory.

I'd then do a blind on the window in a patterned fabric - maybe that nice jane churchill flowery one - calder? hang on let me find it...
the one in the top middle. Or maybe not exactly that but something colourful and modern. Or you could go more child friendly like [http://www.osborneandlittle.com/liberty-furnishings/dazzle/fabrics/monkey-business/ this]] but I'd probably prefer something a little more stand-out personally.
Then if you want curtains as well I'd do plain cream long to the floor well lined ones.

ooh hang on crisis back later

window is at one skinny end, door is 2/3 of the way down one long side

I like the monkey fabric - pink but not too pink, fun but not too childish - with the raspberry wall, although I had spotted these and could do the far wall green to match the leaves

(NB is it a boxy 70s house so we are not fighting high ceilings and period features )

those stickers are lovely. there are some really nice ones around. do you know this site here - they do really large ones which might be good on a very long wall...

oh I am glad you are enjoying my thread you interlopers

I am going with that stripey fabric

it makes no sense on its own but the more we hold it up against the window the more it appeals

the other fabrics should work better but they don't

we just can't help ourselves

PPH omg the papilio vinyl is lush!!! ridiculously impressive stuff - it goes up a treat and is understated chic at its best!