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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I like to think so. My house is clean and tidy but not pristine. I don't want people to feel they can't move for fear of disturbing a cushion 
I like people to kick their shoes off and just sit back. |
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By *isscheekychops OP Woman
over a year ago
The land of grey peas and bacon |
"I like to think so. My house is clean and tidy but not pristine. I don't want people to feel they can't move for fear of disturbing a cushion
I like people to kick their shoes off and just sit back."
Me too I want people to just chill out and for them to feel at home...in my house you are not a guest it's a case of helping yourself to food and drink etc  |
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By *isscheekychops OP Woman
over a year ago
The land of grey peas and bacon |
"Mine was unfurnished when I moved in and bought literally every thing from IKEA except my beds. The art works in my room and living room gives the apartment a great boost too."
I bought a really nice picture today from ikea |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I don't have it all how I want it yet (not been here long) but I adore a couple of the rooms and feel so happy and content here, the excitement of living in a new place hasn't worn off yet |
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By *isscheekychops OP Woman
over a year ago
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"I don't have it all how I want it yet (not been here long) but I adore a couple of the rooms and feel so happy and content here, the excitement of living in a new place hasn't worn off yet "
For some really I think you are a person that loves sparkles and girlie things |
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By *isscheekychops OP Woman
over a year ago
The land of grey peas and bacon |
"I don't have it all how I want it yet (not been here long) but I adore a couple of the rooms and feel so happy and content here, the excitement of living in a new place hasn't worn off yet
For some really I think you are a person that loves sparkles and girlie things "
Reason not really |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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Yes, but I've been there over 20 years so if it didn't feel like home I'd be a very sad bunny.
It's not homely for others though, except the ex who makes himself at home wherever he is.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I don't have it all how I want it yet (not been here long) but I adore a couple of the rooms and feel so happy and content here, the excitement of living in a new place hasn't worn off yet
For some really I think you are a person that loves sparkles and girlie things "
My dressing room (ok it's technically a guest bedroom) is quite girly, dove grey walls, candles and flowers, matching toile print curtains and bedding, shit loads of scatter cushions, but the rest of the house isn't really! I don't like too much clutter around me so I don't have loads of ornaments and things. |
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By *isscheekychops OP Woman
over a year ago
The land of grey peas and bacon |
"I don't have it all how I want it yet (not been here long) but I adore a couple of the rooms and feel so happy and content here, the excitement of living in a new place hasn't worn off yet
For some really I think you are a person that loves sparkles and girlie things
My dressing room (ok it's technically a guest bedroom) is quite girly, dove grey walls, candles and flowers, matching toile print curtains and bedding, shit loads of scatter cushions, but the rest of the house isn't really! I don't like too much clutter around me so I don't have loads of ornaments and things. "
Sounds lovely |
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after two nearly three very cold years ... wr have just had heating put in .... now that makes our house a home !!! I have been wandering about the house in just my undies all week for no other reason than I can  tabitha xx |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I don't have it all how I want it yet (not been here long) but I adore a couple of the rooms and feel so happy and content here, the excitement of living in a new place hasn't worn off yet
For some really I think you are a person that loves sparkles and girlie things
My dressing room (ok it's technically a guest bedroom) is quite girly, dove grey walls, candles and flowers, matching toile print curtains and bedding, shit loads of scatter cushions, but the rest of the house isn't really! I don't like too much clutter around me so I don't have loads of ornaments and things.
Sounds lovely "
It is! My husband hates it  |
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By *isscheekychops OP Woman
over a year ago
The land of grey peas and bacon |
"I don't have it all how I want it yet (not been here long) but I adore a couple of the rooms and feel so happy and content here, the excitement of living in a new place hasn't worn off yet
For some really I think you are a person that loves sparkles and girlie things
My dressing room (ok it's technically a guest bedroom) is quite girly, dove grey walls, candles and flowers, matching toile print curtains and bedding, shit loads of scatter cushions, but the rest of the house isn't really! I don't like too much clutter around me so I don't have loads of ornaments and things.
Sounds lovely
It is! My husband hates it "
I don't think men like feminine bedrooms etc whenever I've lived with someone it's always been nuteral but my bedroom is very girlie and pink things in it |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I took some wonderful 'sunset over the ocean' pictures while I was in Australia. I've just had 4 of them turned into canvas prints and hung them in my bedroom.
They look great |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I don't think men like feminine bedrooms etc whenever I've lived with someone it's always been nuteral but my bedroom is very girlie and pink things in it "
Definitely, my main bedroom is quite neutral...a compromise. Sometimes go and sleep in the girlie room if I'm home alone though |
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On the London renting ladder and it's sometimes hard to make the feel of the place as a home but I have found a somewhat disproportionate liking for cushions just now 
That and prints/art and fairy lights, I may as well invest I girlie furnishings |
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By *isscheekychops OP Woman
over a year ago
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"On the London renting ladder and it's sometimes hard to make the feel of the place as a home but I have found a somewhat disproportionate liking for cushions just now
That and prints/art and fairy lights, I may as well invest I girlie furnishings "
I agree when I was in London I lived in a studio apartment with a separate kitchen there was nothing I could do to make it look homely it was like living in a shoe box a very expensive £650 a month shoe box  |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"On the London renting ladder and it's sometimes hard to make the feel of the place as a home but I have found a somewhat disproportionate liking for cushions just now
That and prints/art and fairy lights, I may as well invest I girlie furnishings "
Cushions and fairy lights will help make female visitors feel welcome. That's what you mean, don't you?  |
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I'm'm just looking for the finishing touches for the bathroom. Mr H has made a fabulous job of it I love our little home. The whole place needs a face lift as it's showing battle scars from crazy kids. It's very lived in and I can't wait for it to be less cluttered. |
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By *icky999Man
over a year ago
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"my brothers home is a showhouse ... dare not sit down"
I just keep it clean an tidy. Dont know how people can live in filth. There's alway s a thread up with people who've had a tin of meat balls since 1947. |
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It's getting there. This last couple of years I've decorated most of the rooms to my tastes.
When I say I've I mean daddy decorators have followed my brief and decorated for me while I was at work haha......mainly just the wallpapering. I'm not good at that. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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About to move house! For the first time ever, it won't be rented but bought. VERY excited.
I can see me spending a fortune to get it how we want it, again for the first time ever! I'm excited by the possibilities of staying still for a while.
Ikea here I come. |
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We are lucky enough to have moved into a new build house.
We've had to buy everything and spent a small fortune doing so, but it's finally feeling like home now.
Putting pictures on the walls have made a big difference as they make rooms feel personal.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Anyone got any ideas how to style a house properly? I've been living with badly matched worn out everything for so long, left over from student days long long ago.
How do I make my house look like a grown up with taste lives there?
I've tried the Houz website but it's overwhelming! |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"my brothers home is a showhouse ... dare not sit down
I just keep it clean an tidy. Dont know how people can live in filth. There's alway s a thread up with people who've had a tin of meat balls since 1947. "
It's a best before date so they'll be fine. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"Anyone got any ideas how to style a house properly? I've been living with badly matched worn out everything for so long, left over from student days long long ago.
How do I make my house look like a grown up with taste lives there?
I've tried the Houz website but it's overwhelming!"
Styling doesn't make it a home, love does. Choose things you love and want to live with.
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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago
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"Mines a homely home but its also the cats home, great big activity centre in the dining room and although clean and tidy its not the place for someone whose worried about cat hairs "
^^^This...although the clean and tidy bit is down to my wonderful Ms Mop rather than myself...
Just had a new front door put on and replaced some of the interior doors (that the cats had ravaged instead of using the perfectly good scratching posts I've bought than) with uPVC internals...and for the first time in 15 years, I now have a bedroom door (I took it off when I moved in so I could strip it down for the "distressed" look...I ended up with the "suicidal" look and bunged it in the outhouse til I chucked it a coupla years ago)
Next thing on the agenda is a new kitchen, but I dunno if I can stand the upheaval  |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"Mines a homely home but its also the cats home, great big activity centre in the dining room and although clean and tidy its not the place for someone whose worried about cat hairs
^^^This...although the clean and tidy bit is down to my wonderful Ms Mop rather than myself...
Just had a new front door put on and replaced some of the interior doors (that the cats had ravaged instead of using the perfectly good scratching posts I've bought than) with uPVC internals...and for the first time in 15 years, I now have a bedroom door (I took it off when I moved in so I could strip it down for the "distressed" look...I ended up with the "suicidal" look and bunged it in the outhouse til I chucked it a coupla years ago)
Next thing on the agenda is a new kitchen, but I dunno if I can stand the upheaval "
I moved out when I had my kitchen done. I couldn't cope with the mess and upheaval.
I am thinking of redoing the floors but the thought of moving everything fills me with dread.
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