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Could you live with this master bedroom

394 replies

botswanabanana · 21/08/2020 13:56

Every wall covered in Kate Forman fabric (apart from the expense at £90 a metre)?

Could you live with this master bedroom
Could you live with this master bedroom
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Definitelyrandom · 21/08/2020 22:59

I think what bugs me as much as anything is the lack of books (intellectual snobbery writ large, I know) and the only interesting art on the projects on the website is in the Chelsea house, where it’s the family’s.

redbigbananafeet · 21/08/2020 22:59

[quote oakleaffy]@Vivi0
Thanks for link 👍[/quote]
I am both in love with and yet terrified of the coal store bathroom

redbigbananafeet · 21/08/2020 23:00

@Pumpkinsarepurple

It's not to my taste, reminds of the Strawberry Shortcake style of decorating from the 80's.

I think PP who described as a dolls house are spot on and as for the shower that takes me straight back to the outside toilet I had to endure on the back yard as a child Shock

Strawberry Shortcake! Thank you! The doll with the red hair and the patterned hat. I couldn't place it.
GinWithASplashOfTonic · 21/08/2020 23:31

Like the furniture but not the wallpaper

Mwnci123 · 21/08/2020 23:45

I don't like the furniture but it is obviously a lovely room. Walls are pretty full-on but not unpleasant to me.

MistyGreenAndBlue · 21/08/2020 23:58

That's not a bathroom, it's a dungeon. And it's not a shower. It's a sluice for washing the blood off the walls.

MistyGreenAndBlue · 22/08/2020 00:01

Bedroom is horrible. I hate red rooms and only a fool uses red in a bedroom.

Bed looks half finished and the wood is a nasty colour.
I can't find a single redeeming feature except that at least it's not grey.

Jenasaurus · 22/08/2020 00:23

I suppose it could cost £50 to feed 5 if you are having 3 courses and the main is something like fillet steak, 2 steaks is £10 in Tesco so it would be £25 on just the meat, add in the starters, veg, etc and desert and it could be £50 its still odd to charge and not something I would do myself

sobersides · 22/08/2020 00:24

I lile it but think.it needs a big picture over the bed

CSIblonde · 22/08/2020 01:59

The only way I could live with it would be to make everything else white (furniture,rugs,bedding,blinds)to kind of tone it down. It's ok,just too 'busy' a pattern.

honeygirlz · 22/08/2020 02:32

Wow the downstairs of the house doesn’t really go with the upstairs.

WiltedWillows · 22/08/2020 02:33

It looks like a dolls house and I could probably sleep in it alright.

Stripesgalore · 22/08/2020 05:08

It’s a beautiful house, but it looks like it’s been filled with the kind of objects they put in chains of theme pubs, as if the people who live there have no interests of their own. It reminds me a bit of the branch of the White Stuff in York.

The bathroom is the stuff of nightmares.

Worstyear2020 · 22/08/2020 05:33

Lovely, I would change the wallpaper.

midnightstar66 · 22/08/2020 06:55

Seems really out of theme to the rest of the house and very mismatched. I don't like it but could live with it.

Madcats · 22/08/2020 10:03

Is OP ever going to explain why she asked?

Stripesgalore · 22/08/2020 10:06

And also why she asked about the bedroom rather than the far more disturbing cellar shower.

Madcats · 22/08/2020 11:06

Speculating wildly.....

Maybe she is a tenant/guest of the owner and her DC has just put chocolaty fingers on the fabric wall covering (I expect Vanish upholstery cleaner would probably whiten the treated area)?

Maybe she is the cleaner, tasked with looking after the stuff?

Or...maybe "She" is actually DH, whose wife wants to copy what her friend has had done?

Come back @botswanabanana and at least fabricate a possible explanation...please Grin

bridgetreilly · 22/08/2020 11:16

It wouldn't be my top choice, but of course I could live with it. Most people live with decor they don't love, at least for a while, don't they?

VodselForDinner · 22/08/2020 11:22

It’s not to my taste but I could live with it if I had to- ie, if I rented or didn’t have the money to redecorate.

I’m not a fan of wallpaper, and find the decor too twee. Hate the forced symmetry of everything.

OP, have you decorated this room and feel you can’t redecorate due to the cost you’ve already incurred? If so, I’d remove things rather than change- ie, get rid of those signs and neutralise the accessories a bit.

bridgetreilly · 22/08/2020 11:22

I quite like the bathroom, tbh. You just dust the brick. Why would you think it'll go mouldy? So long as there's proper ventilation, it should be fine.

VodselForDinner · 22/08/2020 11:30

Oops, clicked on to this thread yesterday
then somehow didn’t refresh the page before I posted so missed rather a lot.

I could live with it, but wouldn’t choose to do so.

Also think the bed is far too big for the size of the room.

SleepOhHowIMissYou · 22/08/2020 11:36

Yes. It's lovely. Everyone's taste is different. I try to decorate to suit the period of the house (always sympathetic, not creating a Geffrye Museum room). I assume this room is in a property over 100 years old? If so, it works. I think the 'feature wall' method is getting a little outdated to be honest and as people go bolder we'll see more pattern and bolder colours coming back into fashion.

The current 'grey' era will be as identifiable as the oranges and brown of the 1970s and peaches, grey and geometric shapes of the 1980s.

cathyandclare · 22/08/2020 11:37

twee fake old signs

They're original old signs, not fake ones. Does that make a difference?

I like the bed, tallboy etc but not keen on the wallpaper. Quite like the rest of the house but the brick bathroom is a bit too rustic for me.

ChardonnaysPetDragon · 22/08/2020 11:40

They're original old signs, not fake ones.

How can you possibly know that?