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AIBU?

To really want to see the makeover at Downing Street?

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BlackCatShadow · 28/04/2021 09:47

I've been reading about how it cost 88,000 pounds to do and how Lulu Lytle was the interior designer. She has such a bold and interesting style. I must admit I'm very VERY curious to see how it looks. Has anyone seen any photos? I want know if she actually has gold wallpaper.

P.S. I know there are much bigger issues going on in the world, but I'm so sick of seeing house done in grey and crushed velvet. I'm really curious just how boho the whole thing went.

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MarshaBradyo · 28/04/2021 10:59

It sounds very extravagant and crazy to do for a short period.

Hasn’t heard of the designer but it’s a lot for next person, unless they have to remove it all in which case quite wasteful.

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BlackCatShadow · 28/04/2021 11:01

@ForwardRanger

I'd love to see it too!! I think they all give it a bit of a makeover. I visited #10 when a PM had just moved in and they'd just had it done too.. It's a surprisingly small space.

I think they are actually living in No. 11 like the Blairs did. I don't know if other PMs did.

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MarshaBradyo · 28/04/2021 11:01

@Xiaoxiong

Apparently it was Carrie - reported by the reporter as a quip she made to a visitor.

"[Carrie] was, as she quipped to one visitor, desperate to see the back of the ‘John Lewis nightmare’ bequeathed by Theresa May."

From Anne McElvoy's cover piece in Tatler this month (which was trailed in the Daily Mail).

This is harsh but the next lot may well say the same of the colourful style

It might be nice or a headache

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Ducksurprise · 28/04/2021 11:06

As we've paid for at least 30k I think we have a right to see it. As pp said they are in no11 as it's bigger.

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Ponoka7 · 28/04/2021 11:09

Not everyone has the same décor for more than three years. I'm on a low income, but I've got a similar look by the sound of it. Percentage income/savings wise, I've probably spent as much as them. With themed looks you get to a point were you've had enough and change it every few years, anyway. It's the same financial loss as you'd have if you owned the property. It's now just about getting to the bottom of who paid for it.

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Ponoka7 · 28/04/2021 11:12

"As we've paid for at least 30k I think we have a right to see it."

That's the allowance, it doesn't mean that they have to give up their privacy and have saddos copy them. I despise the Conservatives and always thought Boris, dangerous, but unless there's a written obligation for pictures, then it shouldn't apply because the budget has been added to.

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ElizabethG81 · 28/04/2021 11:18

From what I can see from that designer, I imagine it's a gaudy mess.

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Freshprincess · 28/04/2021 11:23

YANBU. I’d love to have a nosey at it.
I’d also be quite happy to take any nightmare John Lewis furniture off their hands.

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4PawsGood · 28/04/2021 11:27

Not all of her style is in your face. Here’s one she did that isn’t, although it’s a collaboration.

www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/olivia-outred-london-flat

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DynamoKev · 28/04/2021 11:29

@Loveistheonlyhipe

It's totally beyond me too why would you spend ANYTHING on a flat you'd only be in for a couple of years and had literally zero chance of ever buying, I mean just why??

Because these people live in a rarefied world where unlike most of us who may have a concern about paying our mortgages or repair bills, they can devote time and as much money as many people have spent on their entire house on a vanity project to change the interior of a flat that was already expensively decorated and furnished.
Boris is very used to wasting obscene amounts of money (some of it taxpayers i.e. ours) on all sorts of silly vanity projects.
It just shows how monstrously out of touch these people are.

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DynamoKev · 28/04/2021 11:32

@Ponoka7

Not everyone has the same décor for more than three years. I'm on a low income, but I've got a similar look by the sound of it. Percentage income/savings wise, I've probably spent as much as them. With themed looks you get to a point were you've had enough and change it every few years, anyway. It's the same financial loss as you'd have if you owned the property. It's now just about getting to the bottom of who paid for it.

At a time when we are all supposed to be mindful of climate change, that sounds massively wasteful on the face of it.

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DynamoKev · 28/04/2021 11:33

@StillRailing

Do they not think of sustainability and the planet?

Sorry - I see someone beat me to it and said it better already.

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DynamoKev · 28/04/2021 11:46

@Xiaoxiong

Apparently it was Carrie - reported by the reporter as a quip she made to a visitor.

"[Carrie] was, as she quipped to one visitor, desperate to see the back of the ‘John Lewis nightmare’ bequeathed by Theresa May."

From Anne McElvoy's cover piece in Tatler this month (which was trailed in the Daily Mail).

That's a fucking laugh coming from someone who's musical taste extends as ABBA and on to ABBA.

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CatBumJuice · 28/04/2021 12:00

I'd love to see what that obscene amount of money buys in terms of interior decoration!

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newnortherner111 · 28/04/2021 12:01

I just want to see the current occupants both out of there as soon as possible, in Mr Johnson's case to a prison cell awaiting trial.

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Freshprincess · 28/04/2021 12:09

How ironic would it be if he had to resign over Carries choice of soft furnishings rather than from being an incompetent buffoon.

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shewalkslikerihanna · 28/04/2021 12:29

@Ivebeeninlockdowntoolong

I dread to think what the flat is now like - more Turkish boudoir than John Lewis I suppose. Can guarantee the next future occupants won't like it so another vast sum of money will be needed to change it back to humble JL or some other slummy outfit such as Next, Homebase etc (the likes us hoi polloi have to put up with).

Next, wow that’s posh
I think you mean b and m and home bargains

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Puttingouthefirewithgasoline · 28/04/2021 13:05

It is intense design isn't it, as pp said esp for a flat that is not theirs!
Having said that I bet it looks good...I really strongly hated what the Camerons did - that looked bland and boring.

Its all so incredible though, who can believe it really, gold wall paper....the Tories...the rich Tories, I can't see him escaping this. So silly to agree to this and do it - I cant believe she wasn't reigned in.

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Puttingouthefirewithgasoline · 28/04/2021 13:08

The irony of probably having to resign over design of the flat when they wont be in it long!

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Viviennemary · 28/04/2021 13:09

Golden wallpaper costing tens of thousands I read.

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TheGumption · 28/04/2021 13:12

I'm imaging Beetlejuice

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HoldontoOneMoreDay · 28/04/2021 13:16

I'm desperate to see it! I must admit my jaw dropped when I saw that all pms get a 30k allowance per year for the flat - fair enough if it's per term, but per year! Flipping heck, I don't know anyone who would spend 30k a year when there's no real structural work to do.

I actually feel sorry for the designer, I don't think it will do her career any good.

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CheeseCakeSunflowers · 28/04/2021 13:21

Carrie if you are on here I would be very happy to take the old John Lewis furniture off your hands.

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Viviennemary · 28/04/2021 13:24

A golden yellow kitchen and gold wallpaper. Sounds more like Tutankamuns tomb.

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DGybnp74 · 28/04/2021 13:30

How do they stop the baby getting handprints and vomit and other bodily fluids all over the expensive wallpaper and furnishings?

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