Architecture and interior design thread

Eventually I'll be able to work from home providing I live within one hour from any airport that has flights to London.

Other than that there's tourism, ship building, hospitality jobs around.

Friends of mine work as cycle tour guides in off season when it's peak cycle season. There's not much money in it but plenty of job satisfaction.

On Naoshima since tuesday. went to Teshima the day before yesterday. Amazing places! Everyone should go!

Gone.

Just popped on this for our new place. Going for atomic era Ren and Stimpy/MadMen/Scandinavian look for the lounge.
Need to find a rad new sofa and wallpaper for one wall to match.

Modern and cheapish, not teak though (the sideboard is teak, yeah?).
http://grshop.com/gus-modern-archive-sofa.html

That's really tasty but LadyLiz is insisting on a cosy sofa which I'm in agreement with.
This is the current front runner in terms of being cheap, very comfortable(have sat on) and 0% credit if we need it.
http://www.sofology.co.uk/sofas/cricket
Available without the contrast piping as well.
Looks much better in person.

I see.
One thing to keep in mind, my wife being fairly short she has found that many sofas are unreasonably high. This is easily rectified of course, as most legs are swappable, we even switched out the back legs of a love seat for wheels so we could roll it forward for movie nights - this is because all those years ago when we committed to a flat screen she was freaking out on anything bigger than a 32" TV.

The leather sofa mentioned upthread is picked up and temporarily placed in my mother in laws house. All in, it cost us about £200, so really pleased about that. Spent all saturday cleaning it and gave it a coat of leather balm as it was dry as anything. Need another 3-4 treatments I think, but then it should turn out great.

So, after all it worked out great. 4/5 would buy again.

That's a smashing thing. Getting busy on those trailing cables with some zip ties to pull them out of sight would really pay off.

Nice one Jaw good luck with it, sounds amazing and that modular home is great. Keep us posted.
fingers crossed for you.

Thanks, I'm really stoked. That's the eBay pic so the cables aren't my mess, collecting at the weekend.
Form 5 is the slickest range I've seen from G-Plan, there's a wall mirror and coffee table I'd be tempted by to match but aware of going overkill on the wood theme(dark wooden floors).
Really want a jazzy atomic era print wallpaper but after 4 days of searching I'm looking at going custom which would be eye-wateringly expensive.
Current options are:
MissPrint -

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Or Orla Keily Scribble -

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Both feel like a very expensive compromise...

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@HoKe following up on the link you posted a while back.
The Chicago office put together a video on the SRAM Hq, interesting little vid
https://vimeo.com/155719799

Current front runners, still awaiting samples of the MissPrint pictured above.
Never thought about wallpaper before in my life but now it's fucking with my mind...

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Sofa will be either teal or the green as linked to above

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Go teal, otherwise I see schmutz...

http://www.shopcontemporary.bigcartel.com/product/marc-camille-chaimowicz-wallpaper

Pretty much your colour scheme...we went with this:

^ can't see pic..
Collected sideboard today, really chuffed with it. Few scratches on the top but nothing worth worrying about. Doors have a slick sliding action.

Another potential paper:

Aren't you worried about getting bored of those wallpapers? I'd go for muted single colour, but then I'm swedish so anything but a white wall seems a bit garish to me

http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/maharam-serpentine-galleries-wallpaper-collection

Lawrence weiner wallpaper has some class

It's going on one wall, behind the sofa so it won't be in ones face the whole time. That wall will also have a long shelf and mirror to break it up a little.
I've lived in a white box for the last four years so ready for a change.

Have you checked out the Le Corbusier collection from Arte?
Not cheap but they do have some very nice wallpaper