I appreciated that Radio 2 seems to be the mandatory background to decorating round here, but I had C4 on in the next room as I rolled One-Coat on the ceiling of our re-built back bedroom.
I nearly fell off my steps when I heard her say "Moooood sensitive lighting can be yewsed to encourage people to spend more time in a room - that's exaaaactly what I'm trying to achive with Paul and Meena's bathroom".
The saucy mare! I never heard Queen Beanie be that indiscreet.
Still, I guess it was her standing next to them.
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Yeah! and what's with this Old Tosh of monitering where people are going and recording their movements around the house etc.! Would have been far better to have had an electronic tag on the Blokes wrist so every time he picked up a paint brush 500 volts went through his arm and made him drop it! His DIY skills were terrible!
The kitchen in the front room was a Pants idea and would have been, and looked, completely wrong and what is more, horrendiously expensive....£8000.... there having a laugh! Mel.
She seems to want to create her ideas using other people! It didn't make sense to me. They did everything in the living room because it was precisely that - a living room. The solution to that is to make the other rooms more practical and inviting. Which is what they ended up doing. Simple really.
Bathroom too white and clinical I thought. I like having all white tiles but think a dark floor is needed if you're doing that. They've got a young baby and may well have more children, so making the room conducive to 'getting away from it all' and chilling out isn't that practical. They didn't spend lots of time in the bathroom previously because they have other things to do.
*It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre De Beaumarchais
First time I'd seen the programme last night - utter tripe!
"They only spend 15 minutes in the bathroom" - I don't know about anyone else but I tend to go to the bathroom for specific reasons. I never think "hmmm...maybe I should get my money's worth and hang out there all night".
"Most people spend the majority of their time in their kitchen" - what? Well Naomi maybe you and your upper middle class friends do but most people I know spend the vast majority of their spare time in their lounge. Or maybe I just assosciate with oiks....
£35k?!?! Where on earth did they find that? Especially with all the expense of a baby.
A bowl full of pebbles on the table - hmmmm...that's a good idea when the baby starts crawling about - very practical and safe.
could see some logic to Naomi's thinking - with the living room at the back making the garden easily accessible in summer... but it all just seemed a bit 'boring' in the end - especially the bathroom and nursery (although totally approve of the orange feature wall in the kitchen and they really should've gone with the red kitchen... ) agree with the other posters that most people spend little time in rooms other than the living room - who wants to sit in the kitchen on a dining chair when there's a nice comfy couch to sit on in the living room!
Ah but if they wanted to spend more time in the kitchen then doesn't it make sense that the kitchen is more accessible to the back? And they would like to entertain more. So where's the sense in having the kitchen at the front of the house when they might have summer parties/barbecues out at the back in the garden? Traipsing through the living room armed with plates of raw meat and salads, yep very practical.
*It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre De Beaumarchais
Originally posted by ovalyellow: First time I'd seen the programme last night - utter tripe!
"They only spend 15 minutes in the bathroom" - I don't know about anyone else but I tend to go to the bathroom for specific reasons. I never think "hmmm...maybe I should get my money's worth and hang out there all night".
"Most people spend the majority of their time in their kitchen" - what? Well Naomi maybe you and your upper middle class friends do but most people I know spend the vast majority of their spare time in their lounge. Or maybe I just assosciate with oiks....
£35k?!?! Where on earth did they find that? Especially with all the expense of a baby.
A bowl full of pebbles on the table - hmmmm...that's a good idea when the baby starts crawling about - very practical and safe.
LOL
I must say though, I enjoy spending time in our kitchen diner. It's a nice light space. I just like sitting at a big table and read or so. It's really conveniant.
Originally posted by ovalyellow: "They only spend 15 minutes in the bathroom" - I don't know about anyone else but I tend to go to the bathroom for specific reasons. I never think "hmmm...maybe I should get my money's worth and hang out there all night".
