I'm Back Again....Desperate As Ever! :(
Tino Felly
7 years ago
Hi guys. So I posted here 3 years ago and received a lot of positive help but I am back yet again.....the advice was so good I couldn't stay away.
I bought my first ever home and now I'm at the decoration part of it. I want the walls painted a gray colour but not sure which would go best with my furniture and colour scheme. I am going for blues and will attach some pictures of some of the furnishings I will be purchasing. Please help me decide on the best colour as well as placement of furniture. I trust a lot of advice on here and would appreciate all the help I can get. The living room dimensions are 4.5 x 4.8 and below are pictures..
I bought my first ever home and now I'm at the decoration part of it. I want the walls painted a gray colour but not sure which would go best with my furniture and colour scheme. I am going for blues and will attach some pictures of some of the furnishings I will be purchasing. Please help me decide on the best colour as well as placement of furniture. I trust a lot of advice on here and would appreciate all the help I can get. The living room dimensions are 4.5 x 4.8 and below are pictures..
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Tino Felly
7 years agoHere are the furnishings I am considering. I purchased these curtains from TK Maxx and I am considering http://m.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/art/10287370/ from IKEA. Also a large plant and http://www.next.co.uk/g533180s5#983994 from NEXT!!
The couch will remain the same as in my old post. I know a lot of people on here hated it but I love it and it will be staying. Here is the link to my first posting here: Check out this discussion on Houzz - http://houzz.co.uk/sr/m=7/u=L2Rpc2N1c3Npb25zLzc2OTk2Nw==
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Comments (168)Looks great - nice to see your igonred most of the anne twacky ideas ! But would suggest get way bigger pictures. I get mine from charity shops, car boot sales etc and paint the frames or replace the picture. You can knock up an abstract in two mins. Use any left over emulsion paint or buy matchpots to paint out the existing picture which gives you your background and paint a blob of colour anywhere on the canvas ( or whatever it's made of. ). If you are going to paint the frame matt is nice and I use clay based paint. I KNOW its expensive but it goes a looooong way and looks and feels mega. You may find some nice abstract stuff as well. For example I got a unframed canvas ( feels like canvas ) with nine squares on it all a different colour with contrasting, lit, light bulbs in each square. It was It was about 90 cm x 120 cm and I turned it around the wrong way. i.e so the bulbs looked to be sticking out rather than standing up. Very loud and brrrrright. Cost £12.00. I also go to local auctions. I cannot tell you the amount of things I have obtained from them for next to nothing. General household sales are the best for bargains. e.g. cabin trunk for £12.00, metal top hat box £8.00 both now painted. Few years back, I furnished a two bed flat with two receptions, kitchen and bathroom for £200. I like old furniture and I can also paint ! Therefore, it is my suggestion that you go for really nice wood or nice shape. Unfortunately, you don't usually get both together. I got a demi lune table really solid from a car boot sale for £4.00 also painted and looks good under the window. Mirrors car boots, auctions, charity shops and although there are not so many these days, jummies ! ( jumble sales ). Strange. I sense a big yawn coming on so I hope I did not bore you too much but your place has so much scope and did I mention Brick Lane Market, Portobello Market ? and every other London market. Also in Spain I got large white with blue roses on massive curtain for 10 euros way before the big rose thing became trendy. France is good for street markets. Good luck. Goodbye....See More1st Ever Kitchen
Comments (1)Lucky you! I strongly recommend you do three things: (1) think back to all the things about your past kitchens (owned, rented, and borrowed) that you did and didn't like and write a list; (2) look through kitchen photos on this site and pick ones that are appealing - you can specify shape, flooring, budget, style, etc. - and save them to an Ideabook; and (3) factor in the style, light and shape of your new kitchen to be. Don't rush the process. Also, I think what happens with a lot of people is when they gather all appealing pictures in an Ideabook, patterns emerge and it becomes clear that there are certain features that you love and you should definitely try and include. There are lots of very helpful people on this site that specialise in kitchen design and I'm sure they'll weigh in and give you guidance. In the meantime, with your current pictures, I wouldn't have the wall oven near the door (ouch) and I've have a workspace near the fridge and maybe have the washing machine hidden/built in somewhere else as you have a lot of space to work with. I hope this is helpful....See MoreHave you ever locked yourself out?
Comments (27)Hello Tom, Yes sadly I have had experience with this... first of all my heart sank, it was getting late and nippy and I had just popped outside, shut the door and heard the "click" After sitting on the step waving my arms around, swearing at the top of my lungs and muttering at my idiocy. I decided that I could save the day... So off I went in search of friendly neighbours.... and more importantly their hangers... I decided rather ingeniously that I could fashion a hook to open the latch from the cat flap opening with the help of said hanger and my arm and body shoved up against the door and what I could fit through the cat flap, in painful and oddly fashion (which on obtaining hanger from friendly peeps down the road... I had opened out and created a loop..... I say ingeniously because shoving my head through the cat flap to a rather interested furry head and two eyes... saw how it could easily work and indeed it almost did! Problem was the latch was just that bit too heavy to spring open the door as planned... Swearing, tries, and more swearing and a arm nearly take out of it's socket endured for about half an hour... My cat did not lend a paw and so... heart sinking again.. I set off once again in search of friendly neighbours.... and their phone... This time however, they were closer to home and upstairs having some grub. A chap was called and a chat and an hour or so later... Someone arrived...... Well................ what was used was known as "The flexible friend" Yes folks........ The Barclaycard!... And no......... it wasn't mine by which to pay for his expertise, jiggery pokery, costly and lengthy tinkering and extensive toolkit!!!!.... It was in fact the tool kit!!!! 1 wave of it in the lock and "Open Sesame" my door sprang open, like it was never closed.. $**£%$3%!!!!! I grinned inanely whilst shuddering at the thought of it... My innocent smiles did not save me a buck (as thinking it was so easy, I would be "let off" without the fee)... Sadly I thought wrong.. I almost needed my Barclaycard to pay for it... So the moral of the story is this... When you're a spastic... just get the plastic!! ........(and then hide it in a plant pot, along with a snifter you'll need when the realisation hits that you've been had! :)) (The door in the story is no more!) :) )...See MoreThe most awkward living room you’ll ever see...
Comments (39)Hi, if you are planning to stay in this house for a good number of years, I would, if possible i.e. there are no obstacles in the hallway etc, move the door way to the end of the room (towards the front window) and have it opening right handed (so that when you open it you look directly down the full length of the room) this would mean moving the light switch, but it also means you have more furniture placement options and you utilise dead space as the door opens on to a wall which has little use. I would also use upright radiators to free up wall space, again a radiator could be placed behind the door, making use of the dead space the door opens on to. A good tv arm will also give you the option to move the orientation of the tv and may make life easier. I currently have a tv on an arm which is mounted to the back of a built in bookcase along with other associated tv stuff, this has the added benefit that the wires are hidden down the back so no sockets, leads or wires can be seen, the plug sockets are accessed via a removable panel at the bottom (we bought two off the shelf and built them in ourselves) they sit either side of a set of french windows), the remaining shelves are used to store books and objet d'art etc. The tv folds away flat into the bookcase when not in use. My only other recommendation would be to not block the view of the garden (a view of the garden will make the room feel larger and will give you the opportunity to view it all year round). I know some of the suggestions may at first appear expensive but in the long run if it makes the room 'work' for you it will be well worth the cost and hassel. I hope it helps. Good luck....See MoreTino Felly
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7 years agoDuck egg and grey! That's totally the colours I'm going for. I'm gonna do a feature wall with the metal panel wallpaper (duck egg colour) - I have a thing for industrial style! I'm tossing up between three greys for the rest of the room.
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7 years agoHi Tino
For you walls I would keep them a fairly light shade of Grey and use darker shades of Grey in some of the furnishings. This could be within the pattern of the fabrics or seating. This way you will keep the space open and light within the room but add dimension and interest too along with your Duck egg. Below are couple from SCION with a nice 'Scandi' feel to compliment your Ikea item. I will put some more for you on my ideas board of my profile
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