To ask if I can have a nosey around your house?

[WimpleOfTheBallet]

What's on top of your fridge?

What colour is your hall painted? Or is it papered?

What about your DC rooms? How old are your DC and what style is their room?

How about YOUR bedroom? Your sitting room?

Me.

On top of my fridge is a collection of random crap including 2 "grow your own crystal" sets an od biscuit tin and a milk jug full of pennies...plus various detrius.

Hall walls are filthy a sort of cream colour.

Kids bedrooms stomach churning pink...one with hearts everywhere and the other slightly less offensive flowers.

Our bedroom is white and blue...boring.

Sitting room is kind of "Ikea meets Bernard Manning"....pared down and yet deeply ugly in all ways.

Nothing on top of fridge.
All walls white. Hate wallpaper.
Am shocked at how lovely everyones houses sound. Best you come over and decorate mine. Ours truely is a blank canvas and has been for the last 10 years, since I stripped away all wallpaper and had everything painted white. Love white.
But reading this, it sounds so awful.
I think yoyu all must be Interior decorators in disguise.

Top of fridge - Built in fridge

Walls in Hall cream, floors oak floorboards

DD1 and DD2 have rooms at top of house DD1 wooden floor, beams, pink walls with deep purple curtains. DD2 has oatmeal coloured carpet, wooden beams and lilac walls. Deep dark pink curtains.

Master bedroom has cream walls, very high ceilings with wooden beams. Oak floorbards and oak furniture. 15 foot window with fabulous curtains inherited from previous owner. Really want to put some art on the walls but not found the right thing yet!

Sitting room is my favourite room. Oak floorboards, vast fire place with a timber sleeper mantlepiece. I love it.

I love my house, never thought I would live in a house like this and pinch myself every day!!

What's on top of your fridge?

Dust Nothing.

What colour is your hall painted? Or is it papered?

White. But lots of original mouldings, so doesn't really suit any kind of colour or paper. It's large and has a hall table, two desks, a large bookcase and DD's bike and scooter in it.

What about your DC rooms? How old are your DC and what style is their room?

DD's room is very pretty - a mixture of new but classic pale pink wooden furniture (desk, shelf, chair, wardrobe) and antique (toy cupboard, armchair). Lots of toys and books. Divan bed with white sheets, pink blanket and Indian print type bedsspread.

Boys are in loft/locker style - metal and bare wood furniture and lights.

How about YOUR bedroom? Your sitting room?

Bedroom has antique furniture (dressing table, bedside tables, chest of drawers, chair, cheval mirro) except for modern bed from Caravane (grey/red linen, check).

Sitting room is mix of contemporary and antique furniture and lighting, all very plain and geometric. Red and charcoal velvet sofas, floral Rubelli-covered bergères, silvers, mahogany.

On top of fridge, my chicken collection. Also on top of cupbaords, along with my Polish and Hungarian spice jars. My kitchen is full of crap kitsch!

Flat painted dark cream, white mouldings, like Bonsoir's. Hall divided into two, so that you can shut off the mess bedrooms from guests. First bit has rug, mirror, desk, lots of religious art (icons, cross, Hebrew and Islamic texts). The rest has built in cupboards and bookshelves. Parquet floor throughout apartment.

DD1's room has old school desk, bed, book shelves, mahogany chests of drawers, built in wardrobe. Lots of furry cushions and a union jack rug on floor. DD2's room has metal bunk beds, beech chest of drawers, desk, bookshelf, built in wardrobes.

Our bedroom has mahogany furniture, blue and white bed linen.

Sitting room has dark wood reproduction furniture, one marble fireplace, one enamel one. It's a very formal room. Sofas are red and white. We also have lots of shit modern art on the walls.

Top of fridge - All Kinds of papers and a torch.

Hall painted 'Biscuit' wood floor (blah)
DS room - Blue walls, pale grey carpet and usual boys shit all over it.

DD room - pink with fairies and Peppa Pig stuff very neat and tidy.

Our room No won't go there

Sitting Room - all cream walls and sparse in preparation for complete makeover.

What's on top of your fridge?

nothing built in

What colour is your hall painted? Or is it papered?

painted a neutal/pinky/cream and I can't remember the name

What about your DC rooms? How old are your DC and what style is their room?

ds1 (7) blue & white
dd (3) pink & yellow
ds2 (3) orange & white
ds3 (2) red, yellow, green & blue

How about YOUR bedroom?

our bedroom is cream & wine

Your sitting room?

natural hessian & duck egg blue

top of fridge -box of budweiser(its in utility room)
hall -ball green,all white trim and ceiling,victorian light pendant,dark wood floor,sandy gold carpet on stairs
ds room-ivory walls,natural berber carpet,antique pine furniture .navy bedding sets
dd room-ivory walls,dark wood floor,dark teak furniture .red,turq,pink bed set my room-new white walls ,sandy gold carpet,teal bedstuff -ivory furniture

Fridge - ipod dock and a ton of dust. (it's very high, in my defence)

Hall - Off-white with a sort of murky pale grey-green on the woodwork

DCs rooms:

18 year old DS - exactly the same as AnnOnimous above, except covered in posters of heavy metal bands, and full of guitars.

15 year old DS - painted sky blue, quite tidy, and bare. Bright red stripey bedlinen.

11 year old DS. Pale duck egg walls, also covered in heavy metal posters (DS1 is training him up ) and incredibly, madly, infuriatingly untidy.

My bedroom:

Pale mushroom grey walls, off-white woodwork, greyish/beige sisal carpeting, Natural/Flax coloured linen curtains, pristine plain white bedlinen and bedspread, pale duck egg/flax/chocolate/black orientalish flowery fabric on cushions, Antique Edwardian crystal wall lights, Modern bedside lamps with black shades, enormous coffee coloured suede headboard, two huge picures side by side over the bed in black surrounds, very modern minimalist solid walnut chests of drawers and bedside cabinets, but antique Victorian walnut dressing table. Cream shagpile rug, cream Lloyd Loom wicker blanket box, coffee coloured little leather boudoir chair, and a rough-hewn antique wooden dough trough on the floor has all our white towels in it.

Sitting rooms - one stone coloured, one dirty pale ochre/cream colour. Oak floor in one, slate floor in the other. Wood burner in one, open log fire in other. Lots of rugs. Bone coloured wooden slatted blinds in once, cream linen curtains in the other. Too many cushions in both.

Loving this thread but very amused at the number of words there are for much the same coulour magnolia/cream/dark cream/bone/stone/off white/ twighlight white (OK I made that last one up but you get my drift...

Not a criticism by the way, I think this colour suits our pale North European light perfectly, but it makes me to see it dressed up in the Emperor's new clothes.

If you think they are all the same colour Take then you are very much mistaken.

Magnolia has a distinct pinky/peach tinge to it, and is therefore off-limits.

It's like if you wear pink lipstick - what does that mean exactly? Pale oyster pink, or deep violent fuschia? Both still pink.

What's on top of your fridge?

itws an under counter fridge so other than a small crumb thats dropped nothing.

What colour is your hall painted? Or is it papered?

peach but needing done since intercom was replaced leaving a horrible gap with old paper underneath.

What about your DC rooms? How old are your DC and what style is their room?

19wks pregnant so not done as still waiting to move to bigger house. Plan was beatrix potter theme with neutral walls but has since expanded to care bears and a bit of pink thrown in the mix!

How about YOUR bedroom? Your sitting room?

Must we discuss...a craphole. Stuff everywhere as in the middle of clearing it. But living room walls 3 cream 1 red. Bedroom a bluey green colour. I want to redecorate.

Fridge...paintbrushes[ds2's],Playdough,quality street tin with bits in,plastic spider,dust.

Hall is cream[painted]

ds1{11] Room light blue and cream....bright rug,tv,binoculars,guitars ,books,microscope and double bed and ikea dvd towers one red and one blue plus beech ikea expedit...lots of fluff.and guitar posters and simpsons and tree of life!Chest of drawers and cuddly toys. and lava lamp.

ds2[3,nearly 4] white expedit..cot,double bed...bright colours.Wlls yellow and light green,animal stckers,hand prints,art work,fireman sam and postman pat posters and height chart.Moon and star and planet nightlights and glow in dark moon,sun and stars also wardrobe and stripey bright rug and full size drum kit.
Books and cuddly toys
My room...white,wardrobe,superking leather bed,rocking chair[minimalist]..only room that is

Sitting room squashy sofas[big] telly big.Walls cream..pictures books and bookcases and every available surface covered.Rug and open fire.

FN

I had no idea - I thought Magnolia was a dirty cream colour, ..... I must have spent hundreds of ££s on interior design magazines over the years (mmm furniture porn [drool icon] and never realised the difference!

Magnolia is a strange old shade, definitely pinky in tone and very light absorbing too. White is much more reflective as are the slightly yellower toned whites.

What's on top of your fridge?
Biscuit tin and butter dish. It's where we make the tea and toast in a morning so it's empty apart from that.

What colour is your hall painted? Or is it papered?
Black walls, Black skirting boards and banister, black / grey carpet - white doors though.

What about your DC rooms? How old are your DC and what style is their room?
DS1 - Blue and Silver
DS2 - Denim blue and sage green
A sea of laptops, TVs, CD players and musical instruments....(10 & 8)

How about YOUR bedroom? Your sitting room?
Bedroom - currently green and red but will soon be midnight blue - i always wanted a dark blue bedroom. Sitting room is the only wallpapered room - all the others have quite dark paint on them. Lots of rich colours, greens, maroons etc. The wallpaper in the living room is dark green oak leaves (to go with my green man theme).

Overall theme of house think joss sticks wrought iron, deep colours and lots of dust and dogs

Oh and hundreds of books...

Your houses and your descriptions of them really do give a good impression of you...fascinating stuff.

What's on top of your fridge?

2 ice blocks that won't fit in the freezer atm, a broken ADSL broadband adaptor, some pastel crayons that have been badly mangled by DD, shoelaces, wooden fruit, a high chair toy, some ginger & licorice, some lids off plastic pots (thanks - been looking for those!), a drawing, birthday present for my ex-husband's mother...

What colour is your hall painted? Or is it papered?

It's papered and painted. Weird old 70s anaglypta paper inherited with the house in a kind of basket weave design, painted kind of beigey-peach. Sounds gross but looks OK actually, good hall colour, lol!

What about your DC rooms? How old are your DC and what style is their room?

DS1 age 18 - more weird paper in an odd scrolly rectangle design, painted light green, with green curtains & green bedding & a yukky chap beige carpet (it was the spare room when I moved in so just did it as cheap as poss as I was hard up. Still amm...). Has high sleeper bed and wardrobe and precious little else as he's at uni atm and took everything he owns with him to try to avoid homesickness as he's a long way away so can't get home :-/

DS2 age 15 - more freaky wallpaper in a bizarre spiders' web design, painted blue with all blue curtains, carpet, fabric etc. Plus tons of debris, clean clothes and dirty clothes nicely mingled together and spread over the floor, overflowing bin, several weeks' dirty plates and cups, partially-eaten ketchup, chocolate, buns and yesterday I noted a couple of packs of onion bhajis & samosas on the floor too. Lovely. Oh, and about 4 or 5 of our 7 cats at any given time as he's some kind of cat magnet. And crap magnet.

Me and DD (age 2) share the big bedroom, which has less disturbing wallpaper painted really bright orange with large multicoloured flowers stencilled round it at waist - chest height. Yellow curtains, navy bedding & carpet. Lots and lots of books on shelves stood on top of the chests of drawers.

How about...Your sitting room?

Burnt orange main walls with lighter peachy-orange above the picture rail. Cream woodwork. Gaudy green and orange carpet with massive leaf print which I inherited with the house and loathed but have now actually grown a little fond of after 11 years. Lots of clutter and toys, 2 cream sofas with throws, pot plants, telly, 2 huge shelves with lots of books and records, another bookshelf with more books, nice fireplace, cream curtains, nice big bay window. Can never get the damn room warm though.

OMG, I wrote an essay. Sorry

On top of our fridge I ma hiding a load of shit (mainly kitchen utensils and other bits we cannot find any more space to store) in a pretty white gift box-type thingy.

Hall is painted non-descript cream.

DS's (aged 6) room is big and airy, with wooden floors, cream walls and a hotchpotch of colourful furnishings - no colour scheme.

DD's room is small and a bit grotty. Painted pale yellow and has a pale pink theme, but to be honest, she only really sleeps in there and it is a bit of a dumping ground for the rest of the house. keep meaning to do it up a bit.

Our bedroom has wooden floors, light oak furniture, a massive wrought iron superskin bed and not much else. Colour scheme is a boring cream/beige/light green. I don't really get excited about interior design, I'm afraid, and it shows!

On top of my fridge is a collection of random crap including 2 "grow your own crystal" sets an od biscuit tin and a milk jug full of pennies...plus various detrius.

Front room is sparse and keep thinking we need to cosy it up a bit. Colour scheme is warm green hues and creamy/natural/wood. We also have a 'back room', whoich is a sort of playroom-cum-living room which is decorated in bright reds, oranges, yellows etc and is very messy and everything worn and not out of a magazine, but is my favourite room the house

Cereal boxes

It was called Buttermilk

DS - 6 - Blue & space
DD - 3 - Pink & Pink & very girly
My bedroom is Ivory, very simple, wood floor, I like it.
My sitting room is lovely, the same buttermilk, original parque flooring, open fire with black labrador asleep in front. Farting everynow & then! (dog not me)

Top of fridge - it's quite new, so not a lot yet - just the egg trays which I always take out straight away.

Hall is currently painted cream, but needs redoing

My room is lavender & purple with white bedding

DS (23) also has cream walls, because he repainted it with the left over hall paint - he has rust/red curtains & bedding.

DD(21)'s room is deep red, with lots of Indian-type textiles and loads of crap eclectic decorations all over the walls - gig flyers & tickets, odd postcards, photos & sketches, badges etc. Sounds awful but actually looks surprisingly effective.

My sitting room looks like this.