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To think this is the most gorgeous suite you have ever seen...

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crazydoglady6867 · 07/09/2018 17:16

I got this from an antique shop and I love it but my DH is not too sure and I want to know if it is just me that likes it. It is nearly 80 years old.

To think this is the most gorgeous suite you have ever seen...
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Alwa · 08/09/2018 23:04

Your DH is a good man.

(It's very fugly)

ShatnersBassoon · 08/09/2018 23:10

Yes, you can imagine a white-suited SOCO with a long cotton bud trying to gather multi spunk a DNA profile from it.

worrierandwine · 09/09/2018 05:50

If you commit to the look I think it would be great and a real statement piece. I think if you change your carpet to either wood floor or a shade that doesn’t clash, paint your walls a lovely mustard/ gold colour, find some natural wood doors (possibly reclaimed to keep with the antique look) have the chair upholstered in a lovely deep green maybe and find a huge footstool upholstered in the same colour as the chair.

worrierandwine · 09/09/2018 05:55

Something like this for the footstool?

To think this is the most gorgeous suite you have ever seen...
GoatWithACoat · 09/09/2018 05:59

They are in the wrong setting. They don’t go with the carpet or walls. They look gaudy but change the background and deep clean them and they might look a treat.

Monty27 · 09/09/2018 06:05

I just love the quality. You need to dress the room around it. I like eclectic.

AJPTaylor · 09/09/2018 06:09

I hate it.
I have no taste apparently
I burned (as in put on a bonfire) a gplan table.
Who knew?

Sniv · 09/09/2018 06:36

I agree with everyone who's said it's about context. If they looked clean/restored and were in a room with decor and accessories that matched (including lots of antiques of a similar vintage), they'd look like a deliberate design choice, and therefore quite bold and fun.

In a plain white room and looking a bit worn and grubby (sorry, but they do), they just look like they're there because an old person died.

ForgivenessIsDivine · 09/09/2018 07:04

I rescued this brown one and then paid an arm and a leg to turn it into my beautiful sofa!! It did however cost a kings ransom to upholster!!

To think this is the most gorgeous suite you have ever seen...
To think this is the most gorgeous suite you have ever seen...
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crazydoglady6867 · 09/09/2018 07:16

Oh forgivness. That is lovely.

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pinkgirl1234 · 09/09/2018 07:22

Oh. Wow. ForgivenessIsDivine - that's lovely!

SilkeOvesen · 09/09/2018 07:26

DH says it reminds him of a sofa he once sat on as a student and as he descended on to it an entire family of rats came screaming out.

*eachpeachpearrum Shock does he still have flashbacks?

Not an experience one would forget in a hurry.

pinkgirl1234 · 09/09/2018 07:36

I saw that too SilkeOvesen and I was Shock! And eeeeeek!

crazydoglady6867 Approach your sofa very carefully. Grin

saganorenscarandcoat · 09/09/2018 07:37

Love it

Bluntness100 · 09/09/2018 07:50

Forgiveness that's really nice.

Shampoo0 · 09/09/2018 07:53

It can look so beautiful with matching room decor

Elephant17 · 09/09/2018 08:01

As two separate pieces (ie just the sofa) and with the right decor/room vibe it could be fantastic. But together and in a beige room (sorry), it’s not for me.

If it was in a grander or more quirkier surroundings - then I’d quite like. However the surrounds look like a rather bland front room. And consequently it looks drab rather than quirky.

it's crying out for a glamorous sitting room with not a trace of beige or grey to match! You need a big, ornate brass framed mirror behind it.

100% the above. Everyone saying they look lovely in that setting are nuts! They don’t work for a second in that living room, there is nothing else remotely vintage in the room so they just look like sad old pieces of furniture. Redecorate the room entirely and they’ll work ok, look at Pinterest or something for inspiration. But currently I think they make the room/the room makes them look truly hideous. Sorry!

PowerPantsRule · 09/09/2018 08:57

This is my number one lustworthy sofa.....

Does anyone else like it as husband doesn't and he's banned it.

It's by Roche-Bobois who do amazing furniture at rather large prices (this sofa would be about £15,000, it's a collaboration with Missoni).

To think this is the most gorgeous suite you have ever seen...
Mummyof0ne · 09/09/2018 09:01

Sorry, not for me Envy

SinkGirl · 09/09/2018 09:10

I would put it in our mourning room.

That slip is quite apt 😂

OP, I love vintage and antique but this would be beyond me I’m afraid. It’s crying out for reupholstery!

SinkGirl · 09/09/2018 09:10

No, powerpants.

I wouldn’t buy it for £150. Just no.

Juells · 09/09/2018 09:11

PowerPantsRule

No I don't like that either.

The last sofa I bought (now given away to my daughter as I live on my own and wanted a recliner) was this www.tingsmombooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/beautiful-leather-chesterfield-style-sofa-7.jpg in a warmer colour leather, with Morrocan carpet style cushions. I liked it so much I never sat on it, used to sit on something scruffy and admire its beauty from afar 😁

BlueUggs · 09/09/2018 09:15

That is fucking hideous. sorry not sorry

Juells · 09/09/2018 09:17

That is fucking hideous.

Which one?

Bluntness100 · 09/09/2018 09:18

I like it power pants, but you'd need the right setting for it, a huge room, probably with white decor, and very modern in style.

I have two of these grand pillow backs from dfs and love them. But I live in a very old period property with large rooms and high ceilings, so they suit the room.

Your ideal one wouldn't work for me, nor could I afford it, but I also wouldn't have the ops.

www.dfs.co.uk/loch-leven/loc14slhl

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