Architecture and interior design thread

That's smart - need to be more flexible maybe.

I’m currently looking for curtains for a similar sized window and struggling. Do you mind sharing where you got this one from?

agreed - its a bad combo. cosy front room for TV - dining kitchen at the back onto garden is the ideal for modern living. probably.

Local smallish business

https://www.linesofpinner.co.uk/

Wave track by Silent Gliss . They are lined on back with plain. Its a huge amount of material - like 24m x 2.5m.

Wave by Silent Gliss is the one! All about the Twin Peaks red room vibes

Scary amount of similarities with my living room, had to double-take when I saw the photo @Sheppz

If you're south London, we spent a small fortune on Silent Gliss loveliness from Designer Drapes in penge and the customer service was great, would recommend them.

ok now I want the silent gliss technology

I am very close to Penge. Mind sharing a bit more about what you had done and how small a fortune it was? Can PM if you’d rather not broadcast 😅

Following on from @6pt's post, we used Koza Curtains & Blinds in N16 if you're north/east based.

2x runs of 10x2.5m velvet curtains wasn't cheap, but Koza were the cheapest we could find and they threw in some cushions in the same material to help lessen the blow.

Floor to ceiling linen/cotton blend lined curtains, pencil pleat; whatever's near the top of the Silent Gliss hierarchy for the tracks (SG 3900 I think), one bent to fit a bay (wall-to-wall), the other a simple run across French windows to garden. All lovely. From memory it was £2.6k. Fitted Feb 2020, unexpectedly sold the house in October. Buyer initially refused to pay for the curtains, after some further visits and a bit of measuring paid the £800 we asked for them. Still slightly sore about it. Removals guys managed to get a big muddy footprint on one too, somehow. Obligatory flos glo-ball up there too, took that with us.

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Curtains are so expensive. We're still using temporary second-hand ones after 8 years because we've got ridiculous large windows and haven't been able to afford decent ones (in a fabric that is deemed acceptable).
Still - nearly spring again, so it doesn't matter for another 9 months.

We lived in that house for 7.5 years and only had curtains for the last 8 months once there was a baby about and my wife didn't fancy feeding with the whole street looking in. Wish we'd either gotten around to it sooner or not bothered at all.

Ha! So about £7.50 per day of use - hope you really appreciated them every day.

In the last few weeks I'd open and close them and open them again just because.

Cheaper on a cost-per-use than the bath tap in the shiny bathroom that convinced my wife it was time to sell up (I never even had a bath in it!). Only the child got the benefit of that really, and I reckon we were still comfortably in the double digits on a CPU basis when we moved out. Wish I'd known what the future held before getting that in.

How is a wireless Serif powered?

Magnets?

with a cable.

Would built in dining room bench seat save you any room?

TBH I don't really like them and my OH is lobbying for one, but they do seem to save space and give extra storage... albeit not that much for you as you've got the rad behind.

Also is the piano necessary? Could you sell it to fund the big TV?

Also is the piano necessary? Could you sell it to fund the big TV?

Outrageous suggestion! Pianos are so valuable for kids.

@Sheppz - personally I don't like/get the Serif. Looks like a kids chalkboard or an office flipchart/whiteboard, fussy skinny little legs like it'll fall over and it just looks odd. I think TVs look better on something more substantial, but then I don't have a TV at all so maybe not the best judge...

Think @Tenderloin 's idea of painting is a good shout. Pull a wide band of colour up the wall and across the ceiling - so either the wall on left and over the dining table (basically size of table plus seating, although pulling it wider to inc the piano is a possibility), big textile wall hanging instead of giant mirror, and timber tabletop, and you have a much cosier dining space. Or do the opposite wall and bring it across ceiling to the extent of the rug.

Of the two 'zones' which do you want to be more cosy?

This room/photo is amaze

needs bigger TV

user sheppz next week

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somebody made a Serif car, timeless beauty that.

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@Sheppz
(not the pink tho, colour choice error)

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Very nice. Very 🤑. Thanks for the info

He said the ‘passion project’, which received widespread backing from residents and was unanimously approved by Southwark Council’s planning committee, had been developed through ‘an intensive consultation period to ensure that the disused land was regenerated as sensitively as possible’.

Contentious if it didn’t have local backing, right?

Derelict land utilised for social housing, I can see that being highly controversial, especially in Peckham Rye.

yeah piano came with Mrs 🙄 non negotiable - she plays and my boy does too now. Dining bench has been on the agenda- I may go there - it would clean things up visually - might be annoying to use given piano position - is the thing. The table is too big really - was an old conference table from when we had an office on St. John st. In fact the angle poises are office too as are the cesca knockoffs the kids have gradually destroyed.