Owning your own home

Bask in your and your partners own smugness I’d assume.

i thought this thread was the place for it :)

what you would do in a living room with no TV.

Sit down and enjoy some peace and quiet. Maybe read a book or listen to some music.

A TV-less child free room is definitely on my lotto wishlist. Maybe with only one comfortable chair and have the rest of the seats aesthetic, but unusable for >7mins.

Nah good question.
Solid shutters are a bit on/off only, yes you can split them, but its either light + view or none.
Racist blinds you can control at a more granular level with open and closed plus turning the slats to adapt light and view, but they are always a little bit on front of your window, even when folded away.
Ventian are like racist blinds but can be pulled up to disappear, which is what we would want most the time.

i thought this forum was the place for it :)

FTFY

Not a fan of living spaces designed around a TV. It hampers the thought process when setting out the space.

I actually just don't watch TV on any format. I occasionally watch films on laptop in bed, like once every few months.
I'm sure I'm missing out on some great TV but it's not like I sit around in the evening wondering what to do. I think I just work too much :/

Ironically, I dont really watch TV at all (mainly films), but if I do I want it to be as close to a cinematic experience as possible so bigger the better TV wise + surround sound, but all in a way that doesn't overpower the room.

Makes sense. My folks have bifold shutters and curtains. I'd probably have frosted glass on the lower bit for privacy. But although the shutters aren't air tight and open at the top, in conjunction with curtains it does help with drafts and noise.

If you're starting fresh, I'd probably go Ventian blinds.

Yeah, none feel quite perfect in a bay window.
We dont overlook any houses (@Fox my neighbours are selling if you want to jump over to the best road) so dont have any privacy concerns.
TBH I kinda feel solid shutters would be the best choice and only close them at night, but Mrs.116 disagrees.

Have a couple of small windows on one side of our dining room that I am thinking of fitting solid shutters to. As it's in the old bit of the house the walls are 50cm thick, so was thinking about shutters that could sit flush with the interior...
Which would then allow us to ditch the horrible (but effective) curtains....

Also - need to find some not horrible wall light fittings....

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Sit down and enjoy some peace and quiet. Maybe read a book or listen to some music.

It'll never catch on ;-)

Not a fan of living spaces designed around a TV. It hampers the thought process when setting out the space.

My mind was blown when someone told me that the reason you can't buy genuine antique coffee tables is that this piece of furniture did not exist before there was a requirement to point all the furniture at a screen.

BBC lets its guard slip and publishes an article that isn't complete garbage

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60290876

So many spaces seems to have no reason to them

Summed up rich people really.

Bear in mind with venetian blinds, particularly if you're going wood, that they are still reasonably substantial when up. You'll still have a block at the top, they won't just disappear.

This is the most blatant attempt to get into the golf club thread I’ve seen so far.

The bar is low, let’s be honest. Chippy AF. :D

But I’m also serious, all the furniture set out on radii towards the chimney breast or an arbitrary corner of the room? Weird.

all the furniture set out on radii towards the chimney breast

This was obviously a thing pre-TV... you might even say it's the intended/correct way to arrange furniture

This was obviously a thing pre-TV... you might even say it's the intended/correct way to arrange furniture

Not entirely? This is a random picture (of Chatsworth), but the idea is that sofas face each other so you can have a conversation, rather than everyone looking in the same direction.

The centre of the circle there is the rug not the chimney breast.

Has anyone here remortgaged and released cash for improvements as part of the process?

bought our place last october and have since redecorated upstairs (it was very old/outdated in style) and completely tore out and replaced the bathroom

We'll carry on improving the place within our means but there are other bits of work (knocking down walls, relocating kitchen, etc) that will require a big chunk of cash

When is a good time to remortgage and release cash and will the new bathroom and significant redecoration have added much value to the place?

Could stick a decent Samsung 75" where that mirror is.

Might be a bit high though. Better yet to remove the fire place and stick it on the chimney breast.

Just been outbid on a house yet again. The Scottish system of sealed bids is starting to get to me. Offered 11.4% over valuation (in a region where the average sale price in the last 3 months was 10.6% over valuation) and ended up in the bottom 25% of 21 offers.

There's some absolute madness by people with very very deep pockets out there.

Thats literally exactly how my house looks, never thought of putting the two three seater sofas opposite each other.
Thanks for sharing.

Or a 55 inch Serif bang in the middle of the rug.