Kirstie's shopping again for her 'Homemade' home

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and it's so fun to watch someone so detached from reality having such a swell time.

Tippy can you see through my screen??
We have lots of make do furniture. I do enjoy watching. mainly because I loooove interiors, but it's so far from realistic that it has wound me up a bit. The sentiment is right. You can get far better quality second hand furniture for the same price or less than crappy flat pack furniture. Dd has a 50 quid chest of drawers from argos in her room. 2 of the fronts keep falling off. I got it in January . Ds's room on the other hand is completely 'vintage' and the quality speaks for itself. It has a great big wardrobe that has been painted white, at least from the 1940s I would say, that cost 45 quid from the fabby vintage shop in town. A funky red stripey chair from the same shop for £20, and a white ottoman that was 10 quid from the tip. The room is gorgeous, cost nothing really and is all second hand. I think that's where she's gone wrong. The statement that she is trying not to spend money is laughable. And I have a patchwork quilt that is just stunning, enormous and so intricate. Cost £6 from the charity shop. If I was going to part with it (which I never will ) I know who to send a photo with a demand for £200 to

I know! I moved back to the UK a year or so back after 5 years of self sufficiency with nothing but a car full of personal things (well, and a baby, 2 dogs and a cat )So I've had to get everything new but I can't think of one thing in my house that cost more than 50 quid (most things not more than five. Everything I own is ex tip, freecycle, carried home on top of the buggy from a skip etc, painted, cleaned and made fabulous. I've had to cut down a bit on the hoarding of textiles as I don't have a sewing machine yet but still.
Don't think everyone gets it though. What I think is adorable vintage shabby chic, am sure many visitors think is a pile of musty old quilts in a moulting hamper on the landing. And of course they'd be right technically!

Tippychick - I have some crappy homemade cushions! I made them for my ds3 and that's as far as I've managed to go with homemade stuff!
I think the quilt woman stitched her completely - 100 hours and that was with help! How can it take so long????
Did fancy having a go at reupholstering an antique chair, though....
sorry to burst into your homemade thread, but have enjoyed reading about your own homemade ideas....I'm so unimaginative

Tis not my thread m'lovely, I am hijacking as I cannot sleep. Maybe Kirsty Allsorts inspired me too much tonight.
I want to learn to upholster as I have a miniature child's armchair covered in Beatrix potter fabric that is fading fast (£300 quoted to recover!) and a chaise longue that was a freebie but has stains and cat pulled threads.
I am a sucker for homemade though. Have you tried glass paints? Great fun, the paints are cheap in kit form and you rapidly turn ever jam jar in the house into a work of dubious art. When I was a student I used to paint lightbulbs and sell them for a pound each, am not sure how energy efficient bulbs would take to it though

Some corkers from Kirstie this week...

"Don't be afraid of antiques"
"Linens are my drugs"
"The Eiderdown goes on top of the duvet"

I think she'll need more than a bit of linen hanging from the kids bedroom window unless she wants her ankle-biters up at the crack of dawn!

I'm off to put some pyjamas in my sleigh box..

Do you think if you stay there the actual quilt she made would be on the childs bed?

I can imagine the horror of my ds vomiting on said piece of handiwork - in Kirstie's own words her favorite craft project.

It will never happen though as I could never spend that to stay there regardless of how 'locally sourced' or 'vintage' everything is.

I also want to know where Kirsty gets her dresses!

Would be horrified at the prospect of renting Meadowgate though, for reasons outlined so succinctly by frecklyspeckly.

I hear Kirsty also has a home in east Devon; do you think she would be there to greet holiday-makers in person?!

Precisely, spending top dollar to stay somewhere furnished with a load of (lets face it) second hand old tat! I bet the deposit is pretty steep - can just image spilling nailvarnish or getting foundation on her american quilt!

Anyone see the article in the NOTW on who were your nieghbours if you rented that house.

GRIN

brilliant, i'm definitely going to rent it now

E-bay for quilts. £250 quid my arse!

we booked the house and hen when we found out about Kirsty and the tv program we cancelled

oddly i would not care if we did a tiny bit of mucking up etc ( tea spilled on duvet cover sort of accidents..) If you rent out your home you expect the odd mishap

I'm embarassed to say that I'm finding this programme hugely entertaining. I laugh my socks off at how bleedin' preposterous it is. She does have some nice clothes though...sighs

Is it just me or is she more annoying than ever this week?

It's not just you. Why the hell am I watching this?! This show is like crack.

That mosaic table is going to get broken in about, oooooh.... 10 seconds if it stays in the garden.

I bet all the nice stuff will be taken out when its rented out as a holiday home.

They'll fill it with Ikea .

Yes, I can't imagine she's going to leave her precious handblown blue glass tumbler (the wonky one she made) to the plebs!

I like her table though. Have been hoarding china to make one for years now...

what I really, really want to know, is WHERE does she get her dresses from??!

I know, I think I'm just watching it for the frocks really. And the coats. And the shoes etc.

Hmm, I think her budget stretches a bit further than Cath Kidston, although she did wear a Cath dress to clean her skip mirror in. The lovely cream chiffon blouse she wore is Chanel and she's got more Christian Louboutin shoes than I think it's polite to have

I know she has a Louboutin fetish, but her frocks tonight were all 50's stylie...(almost as if they had underskirts??)

Yes, she looked she had another dress on underneath! A bit bulky eh? Anyway, I'd happily have a trolley dash through her wardrobe

I, like others, find this programme addictive yet at the same time, I snort at the unique Kirstie's "Kirstie-isms"

My latest mantra from Kirstie - "Deck-tiv Lair".

Everything has to have a "Deck-tiv Lair"

Loving the Tellytubby Candace Bahouth garden!

It is lovely though to have a prog on the tellybox that's about handmade crafts - I've been missing this for a long time.

Let's have some more of this type of prog with guest presenters like Kaffe Fasset etc.

Yes! Dektive! Also in the drinking game would be "crate", "inspration" and "clection"...