To think that pulling net curtains into the middle of the window and then tying them into a knot is never a good look?

[Fimbo]

My new neighbour keeps doing it, I want to knock on the door and ask her to come across to my side of the street and see if she thinks it looks nice.

Hate net curtains with irrational ferocity . Mother was forever washing and ironing the farking things back in the day and i think I've been traumatised. we used have glass swan ornaments with colured water in them as well. And a fibre-lamp. and ash-trys on a stand FWIW I live in a cul-de-sac but have lived near a road and still banned them. Wave at passers-by now! - and try not to wander around naked.

When we bought our first house, practically every house on the street had matching vertical blinds. It must have been a very succesful day for some salesman

We have venetian blinds.

I would like shutters, but they are very pricey.

LOL TFM!

ironing net curtains? does the iron go cool enough to do that?

(I always wanted one of those glass swanny thingies with coloured water in. Then I grew up )

Don't like the string curtains slubbers, sorry. Have seen them in situ in a friend's house, and - no.

Madonna, we had shutters made fro last house (Georgian townhouse) and they weren't pricey at all. They were plywood and so nice that we only painted bit facing street. The inward facing part we varnished and left.

Lol at nest of tables

My mum has soemme in her house ina mahogany stylee

Hmmm. Shall have to investigate...

what do you wash your dishes in then if you don't have a bowl?

I say bring back those multicoloured plastic ceiling-to-floor draught excluders that adorned most working-class kitchens in the 70s. Great for garotting your siblings.

We have a nest of tables.

In our loft.

Kind gift from PIL. We get them down for visits...

The sink.
That;s what it is there for.

Bowls in sinks are as mad as covers for hob, which of course are usually an unattractive shade of brown and adorned with pic. of fieldmouse running up a sheaf of whaet.

is what moondog's sitting room really looks like

Well....

I didn't have a hob cover, but I did have a huge chopping board that covered the hob when we lived in our old house. The kitchen was tiny and any extra work surface...

arse

Oliveoil - the sink?

I have a nest of tables I pinched from a skip, sanded down, painted white, got DS to decorate with bright felt-tips, and then varnished. They look very arty farty hippy chick, but are stored under the stairs!

aarrgghh!!!!

aarrgghh!!!!

oh yes, hob covers

What amuses me about that pic is that they have very tasteful wooden floorboards. They must have thought 'shall we get a lovely patterny carpet? No, that would be too much, I think.'

My mother has 'cafe' nets with ducks on them [rolls eyes]

And hob covers and pendelfin rabbits......

yes, but if you use the sink, your glasses and plates bang about against the hard surface

they do not in a bowl

I am keeping my bowl

i have a bowl too olive - then you can empty the coffee dregs into the sink and put the cup in the bowl

easy

and i use it for washing windows too