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

[Cappuccino]

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

don't you have a curtains and blinds lady, peep?

i would ask someone to help

you just get to do the fun bit, surely? browsing fabric swatches while sipping coffee

4th august

hoping to exchange next week

msbee, i shall be joining you in oxon (not bucks - phew, eh, peep? )

ooh pph designers guild do that hortense in a divine red and pink (muted) divine

fabric shop is here

I have to go again, don't I?

ok went back

now have some frightening flowers and a print and some noncy relief pattern

dh has to decide

no i don't have a curtains and blinds lady - last moved 6 years ago and curtains and blinds were already here, done 2 years previously with immense taste and vast expense so have stayed with them....

lol mrsb - quick, quick, do her room before she is capable of forming (and communicating) opinions lolol

capp - lancaster? that's no good!
hmmm. what is the print like? only one without a dodgy adjective, I'm assuming it is the best of the bunch...

bmcq actually I have just bought some designers guild fabric for the first time ever - but it is a seriously retro dark brown wide wale corduroy for reupholstering a chair. I hope it is going to be retro chic but it might just look 70s and terrible... ah well!

i am using an osborne and little 'hessian effect' wallpaper below dado in hall stairs and landing pph

methinks 'retro chic' too but a couple of folk looked at the book with horror and recounted stories of 1970's!

ooh is that the papilio series? can't remember but I know exactly what you mean. I LOVE hessian wallpaper.... yummy. what colour?

yes it is the papilio vinyl ( you know your stuff! )- very boring colour a sort of warm beige for below the rail in hs and landings

the rasberry one in the collection is to DIE for!

there is also a bright grass green which is excellent I seem to recall
the papilio fabric is also great and v tactile yet subtle...

oh, go on then pph

if you were decorating, from scratch, a long skinny room with a s-facing window at one end for a 9mo girl, (with the expectation it will last at least 5 years) what would you do?

I assume the door is at one skinny end and the s-facing window is at the other?
I would paint the far skinny wall (with the window) a bright warm colour to make the room seem less long and skinny (the wall will sort of seem closer) - maybe a raspberry or orange or a rich leafy slightly acidy green or something nice. I'd paint the other walls a warm ivory.

I'd then do a blind on the window in a patterned fabric - maybe that nice jane churchill flowery one - calder? hang on let me find it...
the one in the top middle. Or maybe not exactly that but something colourful and modern. Or you could go more child friendly like [http://www.osborneandlittle.com/liberty-furnishings/dazzle/fabrics/monkey-business/ this]] but I'd probably prefer something a little more stand-out personally.
Then if you want curtains as well I'd do plain cream long to the floor well lined ones.

ooh hang on crisis back later

window is at one skinny end, door is 2/3 of the way down one long side

I like the monkey fabric - pink but not too pink, fun but not too childish - with the raspberry wall, although I had spotted these and could do the far wall green to match the leaves

(NB is it a boxy 70s house so we are not fighting high ceilings and period features )

those stickers are lovely. there are some really nice ones around. do you know this site here - they do really large ones which might be good on a very long wall...

oh I am glad you are enjoying my thread you interlopers

I am going with that stripey fabric

it makes no sense on its own but the more we hold it up against the window the more it appeals

the other fabrics should work better but they don't

we just can't help ourselves

PPH omg the papilio vinyl is lush!!! ridiculously impressive stuff - it goes up a treat and is understated chic at its best!