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do you have a room you call a "playroom" a spice rack OR a feature wall?

282 replies

MaureenCognito · 13/10/2012 18:10

if so: you lose

OP posts:
HecateLarpo · 14/10/2012 08:33

No playroom, spice rack or feature wall. But my kettle and toaster are made out of the same thing (they're - is it steel? Hmm it's metal anyway) so they probably look like a set.

Is this a thread about things you're not supposed to have Grin In that case, I offer leather sofas. I have green and wood ones and for some unfathomable reason, I read on here about how leather sofas are a nono.

Never understood why.

I also have TWIIIIIIIIIGY SHIT! [unrepentant]

peedoffbird · 14/10/2012 08:34

Wow! Lots of stealth boasting going on on this thread.

HecateLarpo · 14/10/2012 08:42

not really. There's nothing impressive about my twiggy shit and my leather sofas are second hand and held together with glue, nails and a heafty dose of prayer.

AmazingBouncingFerret · 14/10/2012 08:48

My kettle, toaster and coffee machine match. Bought them all on offer at Argooos.

seeker · 14/10/2012 08:48

Not stealth boasting at all. I'm very pleased with my plastic feature wall with lights in it! And I would put a picture on profile if my iPad would let me upload pictures! There is a picure of my forepeak there, though............!

Well, there is a picture of my forepeak the way it was 9 years ago when it featured in the Sunday Telegraph. It's now obscured by 9 years of clutter and animal hair. My goal is to restore it to that state by Christmas.

peedoffbird · 14/10/2012 08:49

Not you Hecate but the ones who have moved away from the subject of the OP to describe their huge houses in detail! Don't suppose they would be interested in hearing about my Victorian terraced.

AmazingBouncingFerret · 14/10/2012 08:50

Ohhh i'm always stealth boasting. My serving hatch (thanks DialMavis for the corrct name!) is the things of dreams. Before we moved the telly we were very fond of popping it open and going "Boo!" to whoever was sitting on the sofa. I just dare you all not to be jealous.

DialsMavis · 14/10/2012 08:51

peedoffbird you mean me don't you? I haven't even mentioned the pink floral carpet in the living room, blue and green flowery kitchen tiles or the hideous electric fire and surround yet....

AmazingBouncingFerret · 14/10/2012 08:53

You'd all be green with envy at my fleur de lys moulded coving in the dining room of my 1970's semi.

seeker · 14/10/2012 08:54

It's not stealth boasting.............Grin.

Actually I've heard some fantastic boasting about Victorian terraces and similar -"oh, yes- we've worked hard to keep the original features and letbthiem live harmoniously alongside the modern restoration.........sooooooo important to keep the soul of the hose alive.........."

AlwaysReadyForABlether · 14/10/2012 08:55

Don't have a playroom - don't have DCs so it would just be odd. Don't have a spice rack - they are just in cupboard. Do have a feature wall in the bedroom though.
My NDN has turned one of her bedroooms into a craft room - that must be on a par with a present wrapping room.

peedoffbird · 14/10/2012 08:55

Jam ha Amazing! I would be stealth boasting if I had a hatch
. Dialmavis please stop! My jealousy is out of control!!

DialsMavis · 14/10/2012 08:55

Grin competitive awful houses! I raise you crazy paving front AND back gardens

Flojo1979 · 14/10/2012 08:58

50 shades playroom? Or a children's playroom?

peedoffbird · 14/10/2012 09:02

Seeker you've taken the words right out of my mouth!! Although I am rather proud of my original Victorian fireplace which looks smashing against my feature wall. Who needs a boot room anyway! Wouldn't have one if you paid me

toomuchmonthatendofthemoney · 14/10/2012 09:33

No, Ds has a bedroom which he plays in. It was always called a bedroom, never called it a nursery. Nursery to me is where 30 hyper 3 year olds go for 2 hours a day. Not in my house thank god (or I'd be mainlining gin in the gin room).

No, spices kept in cupboard so they keep longer. We're not in the 70s now and need to be all "marjory" and show off how "sophisticated" we are by cooking with these oh so exotic things called spices (before we wheel our prawn cocktail out on a hostess trolley).

No feature wall. Still on builders magnolia, but will probably go for neutral even when we do as DH and I can never agree, so,will be boring compromise.

Enough with the descriptions of 25 funny rooms and maids, thanks, you posh rich feckers, very Envy although only if it came with "staff" couldn't be arsed cleaning all that myself, no way. Would like a chaise lounge to swoon on.

Downfall · 14/10/2012 10:57

Oh, there is so much to be Envy of here. I would boast like a good 'un if I had a boot room.

My stand out favorites so far are Plomino calling her DH's terrace a 'fuck off patio', and Fellatio's 'maid's room with an actual maid in it'.

Bloody marvellous.

SoupDragon · 14/10/2012 11:23

There's a fair bit of unstealthy chip-on-shoulderism too.

Himalaya · 14/10/2012 11:28

No, no and no.

We have a room that I call "my office" and the kids call "the Xbox room"...as you can imagine that doesn't work out too well.

Anyone got a scullery?

I would love a futility room.

MaureenCognito · 14/10/2012 11:29

Lol at scullery.
What wankers.

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Kinora · 14/10/2012 11:32

playroom - no
feature wall - yes
spice rack - no, but they're all tidied away in the cupboard in an old quality street tin.

seeker · 14/10/2012 11:36

I would love a mud room, though. However, I appear to have a mud living room.

FrustratedSycamoreBonks · 14/10/2012 11:37

I have a spice rack and a feature wall. Why do I loose?

usualsuspect3 · 14/10/2012 11:38

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QueenMaeve · 14/10/2012 12:02

According to wiki a larder is a room for keeping things cold in, before we had fridges. A pantry is just a room to store food and linens in.