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do we do blinds here? well I think we should. Come find me some nice fabric

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Cappuccino · 14/05/2008 18:59

I have this

but I am unsure

I need something that will go with an all-white bedroom (walls, bed linen) chocolate brown carpet, and chandeliers with lilac drops on

ta muchly

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Cappuccino · 14/05/2008 20:05

OI

at least look at the damn fabric

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Cappuccino · 15/05/2008 10:06

oh thanks everyone for all your input

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MrsBadger · 15/05/2008 10:16

it is lovely - is to to be The Feature in the room?

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Cappuccino · 15/05/2008 10:18

yes MrsB it is

thank you for looking

I am only alarmed because, having 2 girls, that hot pink colour second left is all over the house

perhaps it is A Theme

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Cappuccino · 15/05/2008 10:19

we are dead lucky because we have the factory shop for Designers Guild just round the corner

they also do Cath Kidston but I am not keen sadly

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PrincessPeaHead · 15/05/2008 10:21

I don't like it I'm afraid - only because I really don't like that sort of "paint" effect on fabric...

let me look for an alternative for you, hang on

MrsBadger · 15/05/2008 10:24

hmm - I admit I would be wary of introducing barbie pink into the master bedroom

what does DH say?

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Cappuccino · 15/05/2008 10:29

dh quite likes it, but he likes stripes which is why I got it

tbh I am desperate for a blind NOW - we are being woken at 5am by blinding sunshine. So there is a bit of 'oh let's just get some bloody fabric' about the whole enterprise

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Cappuccino · 15/05/2008 10:32

but have to admit it is not my Dream Blind

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PrincessPeaHead · 15/05/2008 10:34

how about this? might not go with your chandelier but it is funky

I like this one if you are picking up the lavender - I really like it actually here

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Cappuccino · 15/05/2008 10:37

pph funnily enough I brought a swatch of the first one home for the living room but dh was not happy with it

I don't like the other one sorry

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PrincessPeaHead · 15/05/2008 10:38

I can never get too excited about designers guild somehow, their colours are never quite right for me anyway
I'd look at osborne & little and maybe romo too

I'd also move away from stripes and look at large scale pattern/ large simple florals, but modern and funky, personally

and I'd pick up the lilac a bit

PrincessPeaHead · 15/05/2008 10:40

look at this romo graphic brown flowers on cream background yum

PrincessPeaHead · 15/05/2008 10:42

it is too frustrating looking at fabrics online
get thee to john lewis girl

and the key thing with husbands is to present them with three swatches that you like and could be happy with, and make them pick one. don't allow them total veto!!

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Cappuccino · 15/05/2008 10:45

pph that one is very similar to our alcove curtain in the playroom

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Cappuccino · 15/05/2008 10:46

oh pph it is miles to John Lewis

if I go to this factory shop it is 2 mins I can take dd2 and it is FIVE POUNDS A METRE ffs

you can see the appeal

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Cappuccino · 15/05/2008 10:46

it is over an hour's drive to John Lewis

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Tutter · 15/05/2008 11:02

hello all

am a big fan of romo prints

well, in magazines anyway

have been ssubscribing to hous enad garden fo blardy age

now i go and buy a house whee all soft funishings ae included in sale

mind, they are lovely

Tutter · 15/05/2008 11:03

have been eyeing that brown flowers on cream background one fo ages, pph

was thinking of a bedspread

MrsBadger · 15/05/2008 11:08

the Romo flowers are lovely

I have been given free rein to decorate dd's room (without DH's input) in the new house so am collecting ideas...

PrincessPeaHead · 15/05/2008 11:09

oh god £5pm? fantastic. where is this factory shop please?? that playroom fabric is great. you obviously have superb taste and the painterly pinks stripes is just an aberration . I'd go graphic and simple and probably stay away from pink, personally... but at £5pm you can afford to make a mistake and replace in a couple of years!

tutt I'm gearing up for a full repaint and recarpet and new curtains and blinds not quite everywhere but in a lot of places.... but SO can't face it. I think I'll live in squalor for another year or so and then at least it will be 10 years since it was all last done from top to toe (not by me I might add). I'll feel better if I think it has all seen a decade of service...

when do you move btw?

MrsBadger · 15/05/2008 11:11

oh Tutter I did not realise you have bought and it is all done

well done!

PrincessPeaHead · 15/05/2008 11:11

ahh mrs b but does dd have a view? because I did my dd's bedroom 2 years ago (she was 8) and ended up with pink on cream toile de jouy curtains, window seats and seat cushions, and pale pink O&L wallpaper, and a romantic twirly cream cast iron bed - all very nice but slightly 1980s and not at all funky. Still it is what she wanted.

ButterflyMcQueen · 15/05/2008 11:13

designers guild can be a bit acid pph yes

i would avoid romo as everywhere imo although that obviously means it is well liked!

colefax and fowler is my latest fad!

MrsBadger · 15/05/2008 11:13

PPH she is 9m

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