Owning your own home

They just like playing dress up and don't have a proper hobby.

Best thing about second hand furniture is selling it on for what you paid when you change your mind/don't need it any more.

Nevertheless it looked somewhat more fun than perusing high-end sanitaryware and faucet mags whilst Mandelson-like reclined in a common or garden old Eames chair

If anyone needs a staircase...
1Spotted at 186 Ivydale Rd SE

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Take it and get it on gumtree 100 percent profit 😈

Take it and get it on gumtree ∞ percent profit

Fixed. :)

Too understated for Amey, fake news.

Back to bathroom chat (sorry)... need a wall hung loo, not a fan of Lusso Stone ones,Victoria Plum have a limited range, any other suggestions on where to get one from? Need to accept AMEX too as I'm long since out of actual money.

https://www.ukbathrooms.com/products/villeroy-boch-o-novo-complete-wall-hung-wc.html?gclid=Cj0KCQiArvX_BRCyARIsAKsnTxPpOBsTNY9GwAmXCQ8g987uUCb0d-i_1C_awW7Ep76yk6spRvrPxXgaAmYEEALw_wcB

could even klarna it and spread the payments

Awesome, thanks for that recommendation, they didn't even come up in my searches....

Our old upstairs neighbour lived in the 1950s. She wore 50s dresses, had a 50s boyfriend, had one of those little Nissans that are really a Micra but look 50s and went to tea dances and vintage fairs every weekend where she hung out with people who looked just like her. Her style was pretty much like the clothing brand owner from Bolton in that story. When she moved out she moved into a 30s art deco block she'd been trying to get a place in for ages by posting 50s postcards through the 50s letterboxes of the 50s inhabitants.

She claimed that the multigenerational Muslim family next door (who are lovely) were trying to poison her cats and refused to eat the food they brought round during Ramadan because she reckoned it wasn't safe or something, and was always accusing them of minor planning violations and other heinous crimes, even though they'd lived here for about 40 years more than she had.

What I'm trying to say is: I think a lot of these people might actually be racists.

Much conservatism is founded on a rose-tinted view of a past which never existed. They believe in halcyon days of vicars on bicycles cycling through chocolate box villages and stopping to chat with elderly spinsters. Cricket on the green and warm beer. The days when everyone was polite to each other and life was simpler. Entirely coincidentally I'm sure, these visions never seem to involve brown people (or black ones, for that matter).

By any objective measure the 1950s weren't better than today, they were much much worse.

Give me millennial minimalist wank any day!

I think a lot of these people might actually be racists.

I feel that about people restoring Victorian features as well! Except @Mickie_Cricket

Plus to be fair to that lady, there were no Muslims in the 50s, so thats period correct.

Vitra ? you probs saw those - Duravit is nicer - cp hart ?

Laufen?

Can't believe nobody mentions Toto toilets. Too soon?

there were no Muslims in the 50s, so thats period correct

lol

This is more cosplay than decor though isn’t it?

We have a spare bedroom. We'd like to make it a nice space, but currently its a dumping ground because as it stands you can't really do anything with it. Which is a shame because it has a nice balcony overlooking the park.

What would you do / move / remove to make it a useful space as a spare bedroom? For scale, a double bed frame will just go in the spare alcove but obviously would prevent access to the balcony.

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Depends what you mean by useful. Do you need another bedroom? What about a study etc?

Whatever, I would recommend moving the radiator onto the wall between the door and the shelving or maybe into the corner by the fireplace.

Apart from the 30s one and the 50s one they all look like totally normal houses.

"This trend for grey at the moment – I can’t bear it. Everything is grey. People are even painting the exterior of their houses grey! I need colour in my life."

I do feel this way about dark grey carpet (and hexagonal bathroom tiles and gold taps, but especially the grey carpet). It looks awful and depressing.

Have you considered a Murphy bed?

@veLLo had one in his New Cross flat IIRC, maybe he'd have some input.

Sofa bed in front of the rad, little desk in the spare alcove?

Because he's not wrong...

Aye these are folk that have the perfect Instagram life and no fuckin taste. Grey and white everything pish.

Can anyone recommend a building insurance that does block insurances? Together with the other freeholder in a Converter terrace, we would need to get a block insurance and the current one inherited from previous freeholders seems quite expensive at £800 a year (both Flats together). Thanks for any suggestions!