Owning your own home

The end result of this for us was that the work we did on our flat was heavily influenced aesthetically (it's not that radical as buildings go) by the Schindler House in LA which we visited while on holiday there and In Praise of Shadows, the essay on Japanese aesthetics by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki.

fuck my soul, that's some next level shit right there.

Lol

I like the bull horns, screams dungeon sex room at me.

fuck my soul

@Soul

I'm good, thanks.

My interior design is heavily influenced by squabbling with my wife
about paint finishes and buying stuff without thinking if it fits in
either a stylistic or physical way then just putting it somewhere.
Indication of the sunk cost fallacy can be seen in most rooms but it
is especially prevalent in the guest room.

---dst, July 2016

nice. ours is nine elms market crack house chic with lots of black paint. and skulls. human and otherwise.

so now

Stone-cold classic

I'm really struggling to find an armchair I like

This is the current front runner but pricey. unsure how comfy and not 100%

My interior aesthetic is mainly influenced by how the last owners decorated it and all the shit my children leave about the place like the messy little bastards they are.

I like it. Feels homely.

http://www.multiyork.co.uk/armchairs

They have a range of price brackets, from £0 to £599 through to £1,500 to £1,999. Yes, for an armchair.

Unfortunately that doesn't sit well with my middle class, hipster douche bag aesthetic

Do like. Where's that from? I urge you to actually sit in anything you're considering purchasing. We'd wanted a 70s Parker Knoll chair for ages. Finally found one in near-perfect condition for a decent price. Bought it, had it delivered. Now it's not awful by any means, but it's not as comfortable as I'd hoped it would be. It certainly won't be the armchair I die in...unless I have an unknown congenital heart condition and I peg it tonight during Eastenders.

Made have a few nice ones: http://www.made.com/chairs/armchairs

Am always a bit wary of Made.

We just got a Wolseley 'love seat'. It's nice but it doesn't look right in the room - it's higher and boxier than it looked online, despite measuring. If we'd seen it in a showroom we wouldn't have got it.

Also their lead times are mental - we ordered the seat in February and it came last Thursday :)

We also have from them a coffee table which is admittedly very nice and well made and a chest of drawers which are so-so.

Again, the delivery time is batshit unless you're ordering cushions. But they do carry it in (BJS) and up stairs and through tiny gaps etc without any questions so :/

Made - such shonky quality - like Ikea without the engineering.

Nah, the coffee table we've got is legit good. It's way more solid/well built than anything from Ikea or for that matter anything else that I looked at. It also has some sneaky functionality:

http://www.made.com/flippa-functional-coffee-table-with-storage-walnut (but the oak version).

The lid that flips up doubles as a perfect height dining room table if you're a slob like me.

You must have found a good one then. We have some shelves, that are OK, but just OK.

We looked at them for armchairs and they were quite unpleasant and cheaply made, for being £500. I bought a second hand De Sede one for that money instead.

lay-z-boy or gtfo

Fair enough.

We've had a few things from them that have been good.... Nothing ever terrible.

I'm liking these:

Perhaps second is not "mid-century" enough for you...but comfy as all hell.

Both Ligne Roset. So yeah cha-ching.

They look bloody uncomfortable. Buy the Balzac.
It also has the benefit of being Dutch for 'scrotum' or something. probably.