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Could you live with this master bedroom

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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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Mincingfuckdragon2 · 23/08/2020 01:55

Wallpaper with a big dark print plus wooden furniture darkens the room. Also, the mirror, lamps etc are the wrong size for that print. Suggestions FWIW (my style is modern though which may not suit the property):

  • white curtains
  • white furniture
  • a really big painting, mostly light coloured and/or a much (much) bigger mirror
  • no small wall hangings
  • either huge or tiny lamps
  • a big, bright light fitting over the bed
  • a couple of items in the room in royal blue (could be table lamps).
Inkpaperstars · 23/08/2020 01:56

From what we can see, room dimensions and proportions look good. I like a lot of Kate Forman but find that amount overkill and don't like the colour. Colour would be deal breaker for me, I really hate red especially in bedrooms.

Fabric on bedroom walls is actually a high end decorator favourite, and it does wonders for absorbing noise.

Julz1969 · 23/08/2020 03:20

I don't care for the walls but I love the bed. Where is it from?

winniestone37 · 23/08/2020 07:26

Yeah it’s lovely

longwayoff · 23/08/2020 07:40

Not the wallpaper but I'll take the rest of it thanks.

Twiningalldaylong · 23/08/2020 08:12

I quite like it apart from the identical signs and the bed. The walls,.floor,.chair and drawers have a nice old cosy feel,.maybe slightly 1980s rich American?
I looked at the link for the rest of the house and the brick shower thing is unbelievably horridly creepy. Can't even look at it. Would never want to be naked there.
I like the living rooms. I really dislike the 9 pane mirror in the kitchen. Made me think of B&M Bargains..it's a real hotch porch of a house.

Bluesheep8 · 23/08/2020 09:02

Fabric? On the walls? Not wallpaper? I don't understand how it's attached...doesn't look hideous but I just don't get it

TatianaBis · 23/08/2020 09:22

maybe slightly 1980s rich American?

That’s exactly it. Wallpaper = Osborne and Little 1985 style. The bed is very American.

savetti · 23/08/2020 09:41

I moved into a house with William Morris on every wall, not quite fabric, but expensive and obviously very much loved by previous owners.
I’ve lived with the bedroom paper for two years now and decided it’s time to paint over it. My main reason is that I like patterned duvet covers more than I like the paper. With patterned wallpaper you have to go for v plain one colour duvets.
But I don’t understand, if you don’t like it and you’re buying the house, why can’t you just change it, why does the fact that it’s £70 a meter make any difference, you’re not paying for it?

Ilovemypantry · 23/08/2020 11:12

@Laaalaaaa

Paint it grey? It’s a beautiful room.
Painting it grey would be going from one extreme to the other....loads of interest/colour to zero interest/colour.
Ilovemypantry · 23/08/2020 11:21

@BrightYellowDaffodil

It wouldn’t be my choice but I could certainly live with it, especially if it suited the house.

Please, whoever buys it, for the love of all things fucking sacred, don’t paint it grey. Don’t paint anything grey.

Hasn’t grey gone out fashion now? If so, I pity the poor people that painted their whole house grey!
ChardonnaysPetDragon · 23/08/2020 11:27

With patterned wallpaper you have to go for v plain one colour duvets.

Absolutely not. Pattern on pattern can be a wonderful thing.

expatinspain · 23/08/2020 12:11

I must be weird because I think it’s lovely. I like houses with rustic charm.

jigglybits · 23/08/2020 13:18

Are you just showing off that your walls cost £90 per metre? Because it seems like it.

ZaraW · 23/08/2020 13:51

@jigglybits

Are you just showing off that your walls cost £90 per metre? Because it seems like it.
I wouldn't have thought showing off about that is likely. There are many wallpapers which are over £100.
LynetteScavo · 23/08/2020 13:59

It's very French.

When I was an Au Pair in France in the early 90s a friend worked in a house where the parents had a similar room ,but with a much more flowery fabric on the walls. The same fabric was on the lampshades, waste paper bin, etc. Even the bedside table light wires were covered in the same floral fabric.

It was undoubtedly very expensive fabric, but sometimes when the parents were away we would go in and look at it and giggle at how horrendous it was.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 23/08/2020 14:36

It looks too contrived to me like a b&b trying to market itself as an old rectory or dower house.

The coal storage bathroom looks like where Jack the Ripper would have scrubbed off the aftermath of a night’s work.

bettsbattenburg · 23/08/2020 14:42

I love it.

Banj0girl · 26/08/2020 23:42

Looks great for social distancing !
Ready for a visit from Count Dracula !

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