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Re: More ideas for PrunellaFrom: marrowjam@[snip}blueyonder.co.uk (Lydia Dustbin) "Prunella" <Prunella@chelonium.plus.com> wrote in message news:hQn+C8E2r$eMFwuH@chelonium.plus.com... In article <8jLeo.107889$Pa3.43274@hurricane>, Lydia DustbinWhile interesting, those houses are all hand-picked and a bit over-the-top. How typical, I wonder? And did you notice a lot of the heavilly staged photos had worktops cluttered with desirable objects (to some) with hardly any space to put down a mug? I think uglyhouse has a better slant of what is 'typical' even if it leans heavilly on the shocking or what he calls 'ugly.' Mind, uglyhouse has a good range of what he calls grandma's house which are all stuck in the fifties and jolly handy too that would have been when we were having a rush on 50's houses in Sims2. I came up trumps in that one with matching carpet, sofa and curtains. Big cauliflower roses on a choice of cream, pink or green background. (shudder. I have a t-shirt like that.) I wonder what happened to all that Pyrex stuff we had; and the Melamine I think that is fairly common. I start off with a new set which lasted about six months. Now R can;t get into the kitchen mugs and plates are lasting longer. Only the pyrex plates seem to go on for ever. Now I think 'ont, I have a complete set of large dinner plates (12) and 8 matching mugs in the garage. Too big, the plates. We eat off supper-sized plates now - actually, R eats off the lid of a pyrex casserole dish as it has vertical sides for to push his fork against. Except, except for the new set of saucepans etc that hubby happily bought<Envy> I don;t want to talk about it. I am still getting over the shock of looking at current prices of a large casserole dish. Cor blimey!! I am damned if I am paying more for a oven pot than for the price of the oven - so-to-speak. We don't have a kitchen at the moment. Bless George Foreman and his grill... <nods, enthusiastically> Oh, please do! I have you bookmarked. At the moment it's fun, a bit like camping, but the 'fun' might fade somewhat as it's likely to beCor, three weeks isn;t all that long, considering. If your builder has problems with rubbish removal he can use my skip, which is still waiting to be collected. Going back to colours: the doors, worktops, and floor tiles are all fairly Yes, but neutral what? Neutral can be anything from an off white to a rather dark mud. The starting point is something similar to what we already have but less orange-y, Dashed back to check on the photos... 8) so I looked around some paint websites and I quite like terracotta for the walls and <nods> They just had to get in a fashionable buzz-word, didn;t they? Not plain terracotta, shade x.. Oh no. Tuscan! For some reason I think of Reubens. Ridiculous names, made to stand out... I went off to find natural pigment paints the other day, to get an idea, or remind myself what yellow ochre actually looked like in its various shades and ended up staring at things like sun-kissed straw, and sunset blessings... I ran away. I am sure I saw a site the other day that explained how to tell the difference between paint and food if you were just looking at the lables. It also had the difference between baseball and cricket. One of the suggestions was 'sit down and watch. If you are still sitting there five days later you are watching cricket.' A test match, one must presume. A better site than I expected. Tomorrow the plasterer is back for more plastering; the builders will be Oh, fascinating things, drains. How old is the house? is this the first time the ground has been rooted up? Never know what might turn up. I'll be updating my website; and hubby will be fretting so I'll send him off to Homebase to buy sample paint potsLoud applause. Penguins, rule, eh? I will never forget the evening my Richard came back from college (first stage) and announced he had come top in the touch-typing exam. Sounds normal enough until you start to wonder at the standard of the rest of the class because the lad hasn't got any fingers on his right hand. Unable to peel a potato, open a tin or wash-up (oh, Mummmmm!... wail...) but could fillet a computer and build meccano things to make you boggle. lads.... LdB
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