A Very Crepey New Year

[Cremolafoam]

Will this do ??

The fire?

No disrespect MI but it does look like a set from one of those OU films (shown at three in the morning) where two people in beige sweaters would earnestly discuss Jane Eyre.....

Wot Herbs said....

Roffle. Look at us having a high old time about MI's interior decor misfortunes.

I had an e-reader for years and DP got me a kindle for Christmas (at my request) and they definitely have a function in life!

In my defence here are some other pics of the room...

I did my MA thesis on Jane Eyre

Ha ha..... re Jane Eyre :)

Prefer other sections of room MI - Herbs is right - judicious rearrangement of furniture is called for....

Regardless of the colour of the curtains, or the Brexit chair arrangement, is there something amiss at the top of the curtains? Does the tape need tightening?

Why should it be a problem, Rudy ? I have books on my iPad....which I dip into occasionally. No one notices the difference if I'm reading a book on it, or if I'm feverishly MNing.

I am struggling to understand the living room decor issue, MI... this might be because I have significant some matchy matchiness going on very embarrassingly in Castle Rose and I am hanging my head in shame because I love a bit of all that. . I also love a matching pelmet.... have you thought of having the room feng shuied?

herbs you are like a whirlwind...what a lot you've got on at the moment.

I have had an entire days work cancelled today...but instead of collapsing into a heap of self pity and rage I have had a looong breakfast with BFF and done the food shopping. New choir tonight.

Any other takers for my Beauty Advent rejects? I'm happy to give away...doesn't need to be swopsies. crem gets the Pur primer.

Very probably.
I've just spoken to him. He says they were his great-grandparents' chairs and he wants to keep them. He also got really cross that he's put in all this work and tried to sort it and circulated pics for the best part of a year and put the curtains up himself and now I just say I don't like them.

And of course he hasn't kept the receipt to exchange so I'll have to buy new ones. First of all apparently we have to move the sofa round and see how that looks.

I wish it was just easy to say "hey, they really don't work" without causing a major incident.

What about the bigger teal armchair (in other photo) in the bay window? That would 'go' but not match. Like. Then the GGrandparent chairs can be judiciously dotted about and not be such a 'feature'.

And agree with CV, though didn't like to add it to my 'advice', that top of the curtains looks kinda baggy. Like they needs more hooks.

I've just done a 15-minute HIIT workout in the study in my pants. Who needs 'active wear'?

PHEW, Colly

We've gone all home deco!

I never had you down as a pelmet-lover Rose. I may have to reconsider our friendship.

I can't afford a new armchair and there is nowhere to put it and it seems a rather complicated solution to the fact of nasty curtains. No, I don't expect they'll let me return them. He probably bought them off his own account anyway.

The reality is that we will shift the sofa and keep the chairs and the curtains and it will make me miserable because I feel self-conscious about other people judging me for my nasty living-room, as well as miserable because it is ugly, but there isn't much more I can do without provoking a major row that goes on for years.

Aha, you mean the existing armchair? It's in the same pattern!

I didn't realise it was the same pattern! I still think it would be better in the window than the two smaller ones. It's a better scale, and not so 'earnest discussion'. Have the little table to its right, the pair on the diagonal so the chair is facing into the room.

Or: have a blind on the central window of the bay, and only draw the curtains part way across.

Or: the fire option.

CV - I too am wearing my Woolovers Guernsey, and it is snug. A true bellwether of my fatness.

We'll shift the sofa there and the chairs to where it was.

And I may still decide that a flaming row is worth it. See the "I never want to eat pasta with pesto and tuna again in my life" explosion of 2012.

Rose, I'm quite sure your home is nice. This is an odd mashup of different styles. Actually I think DP would like a lot of matchy-matchy and I would like none.

It would be easier just to get new cheap curtains, at least in theory. Oh and he also likes net curtains.

We have 2.5m tall dark blue curtains from Ikea, £20 a pair. They drape on the floor, and probably have unfortunate cat-related matter embedded in them, but I don't look so don't care.

Am engrossed but entirely baffled . I like your room, MI. I think net curtains may be Brexit.

I love my Kindle and I love my little ipad even more. I can read on it, and I do emails and admin after the gym so I don't have to go outside with wet hair, fulfilling my mother's dreams and hopes. Sorting these minor wrinkles - like my tights management system - occasionally make me feel I am a grown up.

So far today sorted - summer (part of), tax return (all), accounts (part of), broken gadgets (some of), domestic chaos caused by major spillage yesterday (none of), exercise class (all of, except the bit when I did everything facing backwards), work emails (some of). Can't believe it is only ten past three!

Net curtains are a definite no no. I think the new curtains need to be hung properly and think that Herb's suggestion of the turquoise armchair in front with red/fushia cushions would be good (would coordinate, dare I say it, with the sofa). I think the two old chairs are the problem rather than the curtains. Could you not put them in bedrooms - the chair in the corner for throwing clothes on?

Have been to Uniglo and bought more Heat Tec. It has not gone above freezing all day.

Net curtains are totes Brexit, particularly if patterned. And most definitely if in a kitchen. Only exception are the floor-to-ceiling wafty ones in modernist homes.

I have invested too much energy in MI's beef curtains, and not enough in my lesson plan or my tax return.