To be utterly utterly bored with vintage shabby chic cath kidston letters on the wall boringness...

[Pantone363]

3 friends at lunch all had Cath Kidston handbags with matching purses. We passed at least 4 shabby chic shops all replete with spotty tablecloths, rose print cases and wooden letters spelling out "home" "love" "wow" (thanks Kirsty).

It's IMPOSSIBLE to find cheap secondhand furniture (because I am poor) because its all been bought by people sanding, throwing on a coat of Farrow and Ball, artfully sanding it down again and flogging a chair for £200.

I've been on TWO vintage glam hen dos this year.

I'm sick of fucking cupcakes on flowery cardboard cake tiers.

Please tell me I'm not BU. it's the new twigs in cases isn't it?

[Pantone363]

UPCYCLING....poor people have been doing it for YEARS

[Pantone363]

And the buntings ALWAYS dusty, nobody hoovers it

[childof79]

I have never liked Cath Kidston, completely struggle with the concept of how something can be shabby and chic and find cupcakes sickening. So looking forward to it being out.

[Pitmountainpony]

Yes Cath Kidston,s home is indeed pretty minimalistic. None of her stuff in it.
She is a smart business woman because look how everywhere it is. Mind you I am in California and all the Danish mid century stuff is everywhere here...I love it but many style cats are dismissive in a similar way because it is so readily available. There is a snob in most of us. We don,t want to have the stuff everyone else has got.well you just don,t get it then.

[Xmasbaby11]

YANBU. Although I do like some of it, it is getting a bit much!

[Devora]

I want Yiddish: shlump in the bathroom, shlock in the living room, shmatte in the bedroom, shlimazel in the kitchen.

[AgnesBligg]

Ok, now we're on the subject ( we weren't) can I just say how utterly tired I am of facebook pictures with some wisdom of the day.

Ergo. 'You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.' On a chalkboard, writ squirly, photograph. I mean, do chuff off, facebook pal.

[Devora]

Danish mid century is reaching saturation point, isn't it?

This is why it's terrifically helpful not to be rich. Most of us can never afford to do our houses up all at once, in one style - we just limp on, adding here and there, inheriting stuff and buying what we can afford at the time. So our houses are never all one style, meaning they can never be all the wrong style.

[ExcuseTypos]

Cath Kidston was lovely about 10 years ago.

The quality of everything she now sell, doesn't compare with then. Plus all the teenagers seem to have it.

It's the same with Orla Keiley. I have a couple of bags from years ago. I saw one the other day and picked it up. The quality was shocking.

[Devora]

I've been saving up for white brick tiles with grey grouting, but am rather delighted to predict that by the time I get there the world will be sick of them.

[squoosh]

I think the thing about the Cath Kidston stuff that makes it extra annoying is that it made 1950s housewifery seem aspirational. It was more than just the 'stuff', it's the Stepford crap that goes with it.

[AgnesBligg]

Brown furniture people. Embrace it. (while it's still cheap). My house is full of it. Granny chic I call it. Or tight and miserable Granny chic, in my case.

[squoosh]

We need an Eastern Bloc/Soviet revival.

[Devora]

Gosh yes, Hornsea pottery! I'd forgotten about that - takes me right back to childhood.

Do you think we'll have cork walls again? And jumbo cord squashy sofas?

[ouryve]

Quite refreshingly, the only vintage stuff in this part of the world is last decade's Adidas.

[Devora]

I have always loved brown furniture. In my teens I was obsessed with the 1940s - not the moderne, Hollywood 40s, but what most British houses actually looked like in the 40s, which would have been old brown furniture in small dark houses. We haven't had a proper revival of that kind of look in this country - when we refer back to 30s/40s, it's usually to Hollywood or Miami, not to the UK.

[DisAstrophe]

My local corner shop (not so much shabby as dingy) has hairy heart stringy things, LOVE letters and bunting in a special corner. Right next to the out of date rich tea biscuits et al and across from where they display a small selection of rather sorry looking fruit and veg.

I actually thought for a second - oh get my local shop getting all posh and trendy. Then I realised that another trend had been and gone leaving my house untouched by the ravages of fashion ignores eighties woodchip walls and mockstainglasseffect cheapo doors

[VerySmallSqueak]

Never could afford Cath Kidston.

Never really wanted to either.

I've never even had words all over the place,except when DD2 wrote 'POO' on the loo wall in black felt tip.

(But I did indulge in a little bit of bunting)