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Do I keep this golden ceiling?

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Smorgs · 03/04/2018 19:30

This is not a joke, this is my actual kitchen ceiling.
We bought the house last year with the intention of redoing the kitchen, but now the time has come around to plan the new one, I find myself oddly sentimental about it.
I mean it's hideous obviously, but maybe with a matt black kitchen it could work? It's a good talking point at the very least.
What would you do?

Do I keep this golden ceiling?
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Amiable · 03/04/2018 22:51

KEEP IT! With Shifty's first photo, or matte navy as a PP suggested. It is fabulous, kitsch and an amazing talking point. If you get rid of it you will regret it.

Amiable · 03/04/2018 22:52

Oh, but definitely change the lights!

Bejazzled · 03/04/2018 22:59

Love its difference

Sillybilly1234 · 03/04/2018 23:01

It is hideous but strangely I love it at the same time.

Weezol · 03/04/2018 23:07

Initial thoughts: Looks naff, is the plastic fire reg compliant?

Three minutes later: I bloody love it. I really do. I suspect it has magic powers.

JellySlice · 03/04/2018 23:32

I knew someone who had a gold ceiling in her living room. Not quite as shiny, though. It looked utterly gorgeous. What worked really well with it was that nothing else in the room was flashy over over-styled. They had a perfect balance of cosy and elegant.

If you like it, keep it!

JellySlice · 03/04/2018 23:34

TBH I don't like it in that space because the ceiling is too low for it. The feature draws your eye upwards.

TheClitterati · 03/04/2018 23:45

Ooh I love it. But not with black - it would look like am 80's nightclub. Go white/pale.

Bloomed · 03/04/2018 23:52

Is it a fake ceiling with a much higher one above?

ObiJuanKenobi · 03/04/2018 23:52

LOVE it but what the fuck is it made of!? Grin

Connfusion · 04/04/2018 00:03

You would definitely miss it. I would keep it.

Waxlyrically · 04/04/2018 00:13

I initially thought I didn’t like it but by the end of this short thread I’m strangely mesmerised and think I might actually want one. It’s as if it has magical properties that force you to love it once you’ve seen it!

Bloomed · 04/04/2018 00:28

@JellySlice like the sound of that - was it slightly reflective and did it make the room feel slightly bigger?

Brittanyspears · 04/04/2018 01:30

so bad its good! will look great with darkest blue units

BrendasUmbrella · 04/04/2018 01:41

If you like it of course you shroud keep it!

Gazelda · 04/04/2018 03:05

Go pale and subtle with the units, but jazz them up with cherub door handles. Everything else minimalist.

TheDinnerWitch · 04/04/2018 03:06

Burn it with fire 🔥

Luckingfovely · 04/04/2018 03:15

It's so outrageous that it is completely brilliant and you MUST keep it!

I agree with a couple of pp suggesting white units - simple, no lines, completely pared back.

And I think you need lots of green plants to balance the gold.

It will be amazeballs (word used consideredly!).

JellySlice · 04/04/2018 08:05

@Bloomed, I think the reason it worked so well was that it wasn't in-yer-face, because of the room's proportions. It was just an average-size living room in a good-size Victorian terrace with the standard high ceilings of that era. The gold was not glossy, but had a warm, reflective sheen.

That ceiling was a gorgeous feature.

Dozer · 04/04/2018 08:09

Hideous. If you wish to sell the house in future and get a new kitchen but keep the ceiling your investment in the kitchen is likely to have been pointless as lots of potential buyers won’t like it.

FrolickingForklift · 04/04/2018 08:24

Rip it out!

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Smorgs · 04/04/2018 08:44

TattyFrench yes we are in France. However did you guess?!

Glad to see so many of you are as bewitched by it as I am. It's made of metal, it's just covers the raw concrete ceiling so to replace it would simply involve a bit of studwork and plasterboard.

Love the idea of a dark blue kitchen

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BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 04/04/2018 08:50

So are gold suspended ceilings a Thing in France?

ShatnersBassoon · 04/04/2018 08:56

I was just about to say that it looks like my French exchange partner's mum's kitchen c1988 Confused. Did you buy it from a naturist woman with a huge halo of blonde curly hair?

Lolly49 · 04/04/2018 09:03

It is one of those things that's straddling the ugly beautiful line.
I think I would have to keep it as it's bonkers.