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.

Top of fridge - far too many jars of homemade marmalade, jam, chutney etc beacuse I have nowhere else to store them, DHs wallet, his phone and the dog poo bags..

Lounge - Magnolia and white with cream carpet
Stairs - Magnolia and white with cream carpet
Nursery (still officially the spare room until baby arrives) - Magnolia and white with cream carpet
Our room - Magnolia and white with cream carpet
Bathroom - Magnolia and white with cream carpet
Conservatory - Cream Carpet
Kitchen - Magnolia and white with wood laminate....

We moved here a year ago and the old owners had totally "beiged" the house to sell it. Because it isn't overly offensive we just haven't got around to decorating...if they had left it the hideous colour is was originally I imagine we would have decorated straight away
How I long for some colour in my life!!

Blacksand, your house sounds:

1. Deeply hip and fashionable

2. Like it might give me a nervous breakdown.

What's on top of your fridge?

Nothing it has a cupboard above it :)

What colour is your hall painted?

Havent really got a hall but on the stairs boring cream but it has nice pictures on it.

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

My ds is 4 and his room is blue and white walls with a digger theme, oak bed, wardrobe and chest of drawers and a wooden thomas table. It all seems cool for a 4 yr old its my fave room in the house.

How about YOUR bedroom?

Our bedroom is cream and a 'picnic basket' colour (brown) with matching pictures above the bed and on the duvet cover, silk curtins and cream and oak furniture.

Your sitting room?

Same colour walls as bedroom (our house is rented so have stuck to neutral colours) long linen curtins one large sofa thats gorgeous a smaller sofa and matching footstool,oak furniture and mirror. Wool shaggy rug the whole room is very cosy I love it. However at the minute its full of balloons and toys as it was ds birthday the other day.

What's on top of your fridge?
A little bit of dust - about to disappear now that i've checked.

What colour is your hall painted? reddish terracotta under the dado rail and cream above it.

What about your DC rooms?
DS 16, blue and terracotta, DD 12, pale pink and cream. Both need updating

How about YOUR bedroom?
white built in wardrobes and oak free standing wardrobe and other furniture. Painted pale lemon with cream/green fine leaf patterned curtains.

Your sitting room?
Very traditional, bookcase in one alcove, piano in the other, terracotta sofa and ancient leather armchairs which desperately need recovering, marble fireplace and full length gold curtains over plantation blinds - interconnecting doors to very traditional formal dining room.

Generally - all a bit battered and dated.

Top of fridge: washing baskets as the main one is in utility room

Hall: Ecru by Fired Earth

Children's rooms: currently sharing huge second bedroom, which is also painted in Fired Earth's Ecru, with distressed white furniture and pink bunting, pastel picture frames, gold letters etc on walls. Will be put into their own rooms later this year (when dh and I can be arsed) Dd1 will have a quite sophisticated room of Laura Ashley tatton pink curtains, chandelier etc and dd2 will have union jack theme. (Her choice, not mine!)

Our bedroom - large airy haven with F&B's Pavilion blue on walls, super king size mettal bed, Laura ashley green silk curtains, ensuite and walk in wardrobe.

Sitting room - main one is about to be redecorated with lime white painted floorboards, Cath Kidston Antique rose curtains, cerise silk details, big squashy sofas, big arched alcoves, log burner, and soon a garden room leading off it.

What's on top of your fridge?

A worktop. It is integrated. On top of worktop where fridge is there is a granite chopping board, an Alessi kitchen roll holder and the kettle.

What colour is your hall painted? Or is it papered?
All walls painted. We have three halls as on three floors. All painted white.

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

8y DD has a pink room at present. Pink walls with transfers on of flowers, butterflies and guitar. White wooden bunk beds, white shef and white tall unit with pink fabric boxes inside, and a white bedside cabinet. Built in wardrobe with white doors with pink handpainted handles and flower transfers. Pink curatins and pink lightshade. Pink net over bed and pink/lilac bedding. Bottom bunk set up for sitting on with lots of cushions and trundle bed beneath that. iPod dock on bedside unit and lots of photo frames on shelf. Sylvanian Families toys set up around the rest of the bedrooom floorat present.

She is hoping for it to be decorated later this year and wants paler walls and curtains, more lilac, pastel blues and pinks, nd florals I think.

How about YOUR bedroom?

White walls, very low kingsize bed in middle. Deep red gloss warbrobes built in one length of wall. matching bedside cainet and chest of drawers. White bedding with red poppies. Red curtains. Red cushions and accessories. Pale cream carpet. Newly done last year.

Your sitting room?

White walls. L shaped. Brown leather sfa and cream fabric chair. White gloss and silver rectangle coffee table. 2 sets of cream curtains (need replacing). In L shpae digital piano and computer unit. Wood unit, bookcase, CD cases and TV stand in beech. Base box and two sets of standing speakers on thin stands (little Bose ones so not too imposing). Big flatscreen Tv on TV unit. All furniture and curtains due to be replaced later this year.

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We rent, so the decor doesn't tend to reflect our taste, but as I've never decorated a house I wouldn't know where to begin and suspect I'd be pretty terrible at it.

There's not much on top of our fridge as it's about 6' tall and none of us is.

I don't know what colour the hall is - we never use it and I can't remember! Our house has a corridor off that no-on except SS uses as his bedroom and the front door are down there, and everyone always uses the back door. Weeks go past and I don't go down the hall!

DS is two and has a room with yellow walls and a lilac border - or the other way round, it really isn't very important to me so I don't notice. Plus I'm usually too knackered to notice when I'm in there at the crack of dawn or bedtime.

DD is nearly nine and had a lilac, plum and grey room, which is nicer than it sounds. Her room is vast.

SD's room is peach, which she hates, and I couldn't tell you about SS' room as I avoid it at all costs!

I love our room. It's lilac with wooden fitted wardrobes and a nice little en-suite. The curtains aren't ideal but they don't keep me awake at night.

The sitting room has yellow walls, dark terracotta carpet and goldy curtains which sounds foul but works all together. It's a bit old-fashioned (whole house is) but it's in good nick and sits well together so it doesn't leap out at you as dodgy rented house decor.

I'd love a house that really reflected my taste, but I think it's going to be a long wait.

Nothing- built in
Hall is white
All bedrooms and bathroom white
Open plan living kitchen bit is white
Living room is F and B brinjal a dark blacky plum

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What's on top of your fridge?

sandwich bags, cast iron recipe holder, iceblocks and some tupperware

What colour is your hall painted? Or is it papered? m
int green

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

13 DD mint green walls covered with posters and white as fitted furniture

15 DS blue walls, mint blind no furniture at moment and greenday, biffy cliro and banksy posters

How about YOUR bedroom? Your sitting room?

sitting room, yellow walls and green leather suite

bedroom
magnolia walls and very untidy

What's on top of your fridge? Nothing, really, as it's built into a sort of cabinet thing. The fridge isn't an integrated one but there'a custom built thingummy that carries on from the kitchen units and has provided us with a wonderful huge cupboard to store all DD's art stuff in. It's filled with paper of all kinds, paint, glitter, glue, stickers, fabric, pipecleaners, sequins etc etc etc.

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

Cream hall, pale wooden floor, stripped old pine doors with lovely original brass handles

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

DD, aged four, has a room with bright but dark leafy green up to the dado rail and lilac above. Cream wooden chest of drawers and bedside table inherited from my grandmother. They have very pretty carved white handles and pale grey curlicues on each drawer. It's all rather frilly but just right for a little girl. One of those IKEA beds with a tent that you see everywhere. Cream drawer unit with green drawers for all her crap. Bright red half height bookshelf, red and green and cream flowery modern rug, white child-sized table and two chairs.

How about YOUR bedroom?

Pale greyish lilac walls, stripped floorboards, stripy bedlinen in all kinds of shades of fuchsia and purple. Dark wooden bed and bedside tables and wardrobes (one each). Nice little fireplace painted white. Lilac/grey hearthstone.

Your sitting room?

Dark aubergine carpet, red sofas, pale pale chalky greyish pink walls, large fireplace with whitewashed brick surround and sort of rustic looking fake fire (gas) in it. Fire slightly nicer than is sounds but I would actually quite like to get a proper antique fireplace for this room with a tiled surround.