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Things you would NEVER want in your house:

568 replies

AlphaBravoHenryFoxtons · 28/03/2015 20:08

I'll start.

A kitchen island.
A hall console table.
A corner sofa.
New rugs.

I am thinking of getting a plumbed-in Miele coffee machine.

OP posts:
noddyholder · 02/04/2015 18:57

We had brinjal in our old house loved it

toomuchnutella · 02/04/2015 19:06

those cheesy white background photos you can get taken at boots etc.pix photo and what not.

SweetAndFullOfGrace · 02/04/2015 20:56

Raphaella I think you may have a slightly larger house than many of the people on this thread! If I had a 36' kitchen I would probably decorate slightly differently to my current approach in my poky little bungalow Grin

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 02/04/2015 21:44

Raphaelle me too, and I quite like some of my stuff. Grin

WhatKatyDidnt · 02/04/2015 21:53

Raphaella a primrose cloakroom suite sounds awesome!

Devora · 02/04/2015 22:39

I would love a primrose bathroom suite.

This thread has made me realise how much I don't want to go on living with my cheap shiny purple eyelet bedroom curtains, which were bought 5 years ago 'to get us started till we can afford decent ones' and are still up there.

It's also made me rethink my ideas for the new kitchen that one day I hope to have (that I've been mentally planning for 5 years!). I've been pulling myself towards a typical painted Shaker modern country kitchen, feeling that that would be a 'safe' choice. But actually, that doesn't make my heart sing: I want something much more retro-industrial, something that's about my lifelong love of 30s/40s era.

Some posters think this is a thread for sneering about others' taste. I honestly don't think it is so - and I haven't seen that in the threads. i think we are all enjoying talking about what makes us different, and gently laughing at our quirks. And I think it's really interesting to take a moment to step back from current conventional taste and think what really works for us. I would be a bit of an idiot if I thought that breakfast bars, freestanding baths, wooden cupboard knobs and red kitchen accessories were bad taste - they're clearly not - but it's ok to say, 'They're really, really not for me'.

RaphaellaTheSpanishWaterDog · 02/04/2015 22:41

WhatKatyDidnt - You don't want it do you?! It'll be coming out in the next few months.....being replaced with boring white and a gold coloured tap!

SweetAndFullOfGrace - Not overly huge - 2500 sq ft after we'd extended - but we sold it last year and our new house is 500 sq ft smaller. I'm sure there's a few on here with much larger homes :@)

WhatKatyDidnt · 02/04/2015 22:58

Thanks raphaella but much as I love the idea I don't think I can bring myself to rip out our brand new boring white one! I hope it finds a new home though, it must be nigh on impossible to buy a yellow loo these days

WhatKatyDidnt · 02/04/2015 23:06

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SweetAndFullOfGrace · 02/04/2015 23:24

Raphaella - I would love to have house scale to balance decor ideas, it makes a difference, you can do much more exciting stuff with prints and strong colours with space. But you're probably right that house size isn't the determining factor on this thread!

I have a fight of two demons when it comes to decor hates:loves - a fundamental need for space and light that requires a clutter free neutralness and a love of quirky idiosyncratic bonkersness. So I can completely see all sides of this thread... Devora summed it up I think - quirks are great Grin

PigletJohn · 03/04/2015 00:11

My granddad had a primrose bathroom suite. Must have been installed at least 50 years ago, and was still in the house ten years back. Syphonic WC and an iron bath that sucked all the heat out of the water, so it must have cost a fortune.

SweetAndFullOfGrace · 03/04/2015 00:15

Ooh completely derailing but PigletJohn is there a way of heating a cast iron bath (ie before adding water to it) so it doesn't make the water go cold? Like a stock pot?

PigletJohn · 03/04/2015 00:18

fill it up with hot water before you add the water.

I've sometimes considered having a low radiator mounted on the wall behind the bath, but it would encourage limescale and people staying in until they turned to prunes.

SweetAndFullOfGrace · 03/04/2015 00:22

How would it encourage limescale? I was thinking some kind of direct heat exchange (electric blanket) but I suppose that doesn't mix well with water?

PigletJohn · 03/04/2015 00:29

the heat would evaporate away splashes, leaving the lime.

Like the outside of your kettle.

Direct heat might make the water too hot. In the old days of Ascots, people sometimes fainted in hot baths and were boiled like lobsters.

Lweji · 03/04/2015 00:36

Vermin.

I'm easy to please. :)

SweetAndFullOfGrace · 03/04/2015 00:37

Ah. Boiling people isn't ideal. Perhaps a more gentle method then, like routing your radiator pipes around the bath?

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 03/04/2015 00:54

I have a metal bathtub, I just run the hot water into it first, then add cold water to make it bearable. Seems to keep it hot longer that way (I'm usually in it for 1h+)

Crossfitmyarse · 03/04/2015 01:01

I often wonder when coloured bathroom suites will come back into fashion, and why it hasn't happened yet. Most things do eventually come full circle and it's a bit of a mystery to me that we haven't seen the return of the coloured bathroom, especially as retro and 60's/60's stuff has been trendy for a few years now.

I wouldn't particularly welcome the avocados and the navy blues and chocolate browns of the late 70's (they showed the soap scum and were really hard to clean) or the 'whisper peach' Hmm and Indian Ivory of the 80's (insipid) but I could totally get into those brighter pastels from the 30's through to the 60's, sugared almond / ice cream colours, pink, mint, jade, primrose etc.

We rented a house in France once (not that long ago) and it had the most amazing warm pink bathroom where the sanitary ware was a sort of stone/matt finish rather than glossy porcelain. I absolutely loved it.

Crossfitmyarse · 03/04/2015 01:03

I have a fight of two demons when it comes to decor hates:loves - a fundamental need for space and light that requires a clutter free neutralness and a love of quirky idiosyncratic bonkersness.

I can totally relate to that. Grin

makemineapinot · 03/04/2015 01:15

My xh!

Nightingalemumoftwo · 03/04/2015 01:25

Those preachy, motivational pictures/posters that tell you how to live your life :"smile, love, be happy, share" etc. Ghastly!
New age art
Religious symbols
Those hideous miniature houses/cottages peiple collect.

noddyholder · 03/04/2015 07:30

Lots of coloured bathrooms around and have been slowly coming back the last few years I have noticed people no pt actually removing them and working with them. Also fitting new ones esp coloured shower trays

noddyholder · 03/04/2015 07:33

Old coloured suites are generally ripped out and replaced with inferior white ones Not many people replace them with a similar quality white bath.

antumbra · 03/04/2015 07:44

*the heat would evaporate away splashes, leaving the lime.

Like the outside of your kettle.
*

Does that really happen?

I live in a soft water area, so have never experience limescale. Sounds horrible.

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