Could you live with this master bedroom

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

I think I could if I was sent back in time to 1906.

Where are people seeing a bathroom?

Seen it now. I quite like the murder bathroom

Just read the thread and there's a link to the article on an interior designed period house in Tunbridge Wells (Georgian).

Someone asked up thread for size of bed. 3 housewife pillows across is a Super King. Excellent if you have co-sleeping kids or any kind of sight hound. 😆

All 'new' fashion trends are a bit jarring at first. I doubted anyone would paint their home battleship grey, but it became the zeitgeist. Look at the ugliness of 70s fashion, it's all about trends and mimicry, and it rolled back in again 20 years later. In fact, if we look at influencers of the 1920s, you'll find a 70s vibe right there.

I rather like this direction. I hope we swing towards prettier trends like art nouveau or fifties fashion. I find deco (30s), 70s, 80s and 90s trends a bit angular and ugly.

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

Nope. It's still twee to have two of them, and in a bedroom. They weren't originally made as home decor items, were they?

It says about the original vintage signs on the linked website. I agree they look twee- but I'm so shallow I liked them a little more when I knew they were old!!!!

I don't like the bedroom, find it a bit oppressive. I don't mind other rooms in the house though. I had fabric on walls in a house I rented for many years. It was in the bathroom and had been up for many years, put up by the owners. It still looked very good.

Oh ok, that makes sense.

About the signs being vintage, not about you liking them...

In fact, if we look at influencers of the 1920s, you'll find a 70s vibe right there.
Was that the 1870s?

I badly want a house which doesn't have a fitted kitchen; I hate them more than I can express. Oh and no w2w fucking carpets...

That room is 100% haunted.

I like it! Would choose simpler chairs and accessories to ‘de-fuss’ it a bit but it looks nice.

I love how this house has boiled down interior design to only two options - paint everything grey or fill your house with murder bathrooms, ‘entertainment room’ peep show signs, water stained mannequins, random industrial containers and antlers in the style of the QAnon conspiracy elite cabal.

In the right style of house I could. It would look ridiculous in our grey and white new build though 😂.

Agree it’s haunted though...

Could I live with it? Yes of course, it’s not going to kill me is it.

Do I love it? No, it’s not my cup of tea.

I’d happily live in it and eventually get around to changing it. If wouldn’t be top of my list though if the rest of the house needed updating.

@Lweji

In fact, if we look at influencers of the 1920s, you'll find a 70s vibe right there. Was that the 1870s?

No, 50 years forward, not back @Lweji

The change from 1870s in 50 years was staggering, a complete turnaround caused by female emancipation (no corset, short hair, knee length skirts, trousers).

The gaudy 1920s florals and palazzo pants are the 1970s comparisons I was making.

It's very 1980s isn't it? I probably had something similar and this hasn't aged well, probably as it's such a busy design, very 'in your face'. Even my taste is more streamlined now. Professional help is required I think.

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.

Hell yeah. Grey is the new avocado.

Hell yeah. Grey is the new avocado.

I reckon avocado is due a come-back purely on economic grounds. Bathroom shops must have by now sold a replacement suite to pretty much everyone in the country - for the sake of the continued existence of their businesses, they now need to persuade us that white is boring, and we need colour.

Did anyone else look at the shelf of records (totally out of reach) and think of that thing that used to get lampooned in 1920s novels - the guy who bought his books "by the yard" simply to do up his sitting room and make himself look clever?

Hasn’t the grey era moved on already to very dark blues/greens etc? Looks great in magazine shoots (just not in small & dark already rooms!)

(And got to admit, while I’d have preferred the white walls that my DH says make him feel like he’s living in a mental institution I quite like our recently painted bluey grey dining room!)

@SJaneS48

Hasn’t the grey era moved on already to very dark blues/greens etc? Looks great in magazine shoots (just not in small & dark already rooms!)

(And got to admit, while I’d have preferred the white walls that my DH says make him feel like he’s living in a mental institution I quite like our recently painted bluey grey dining room!)

Nope.

I’m looking for an investment property in London atm and manh houses are grey in EVERY SINGLE ROOM.

Must make them look very light and airy @TatianaBis!

Grey has hit saturation and that's its downfall. Yes, EVERY house you've seen is grey and when things become common, people move on to the next trend. Rightly as said, dark walls with pastel accents is the latest trend (our bedroom is navy walls with heavy (not crushed) velvet curtains in blush (soft pink).

Also, lots of jungle fabric in the interior design shops currently.

I would recover the walls. The whole room is way too fussy for my liking. I like bedrooms to feel calming.