Regretting the choice in colour

Puds

Puds

paul r said:
I thought you would have mouse themed wall paper ?

My house is so drab and colourless ! Better get some colour , job for spring
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Ditto, my house is not "me" at all.
A combination of original features that everyone tells me I 'can't" paint over or remove, second hand furniture that I hate & weird shaped through lounge with one end being very dark so colours that look nice one end, look hideous the other. Plus ceiling is papered in horrible lumpy paper that I tried to take down & when I saw the horror show underneath I stuck it back! Quotes for re-plastering were nightmare inducing.
I do upcycle & paint furniture,& do DIY, but for once I'd like to move to a place with normal walls, no dado rails that are cemented in ( thanks 1930's builders!) no corner fireplace that takes up half the room but can't be removed without rebuilding house, and light!
Plus chuck all furniture & start again, with new stuff that I actually like.
One day.
Lol I bet, as I am so contrary, that if I ever move, I'll miss my house!
 
Technician Q

Technician Q

(she/her)
Puds said:
Ditto, my house is not "me" at all.
A combination of original features that everyone tells me I 'can't" paint over or remove, second hand furniture that I hate & weird shaped through lounge with one end being very dark so colours that look nice one end, look hideous the other. Plus ceiling is papered in horrible lumpy paper that I tried to take down & when I saw the horror show underneath I stuck it back! Quotes for re-plastering were nightmare inducing.
I do upcycle & paint furniture,& do DIY, but for once I'd like to move to a place with normal walls, no dado rails that are cemented in ( thanks 1930's builders!) no corner fireplace that takes up half the room but can't be removed without rebuilding house, and light!
Plus chuck all furniture & start again, with new stuff that I actually like.
One day.
Lol I bet, as I am so contrary, that if I ever move, I'll miss my house!
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When I’ve got to clean I hark back to the simplicity of our apartments abroad. But I know if I actually went back to live in any of them the plain, neutral, walls, minimal furniture and lack of personality would make me wish I was back in my current house! #TheGrassIsAlwaysGreener
 
Puds

Puds

Technician Q said:
When I’ve got to clean I hark back to the simplicity of our apartments abroad. But I know if I actually went back to live in any of them the plain, neutral, walls, minimal furniture and lack of personality would make me wish I was back in my current house! #TheGrassIsAlwaysGreener
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Yes, I wouldn't want it too minimal. I like original features, just not too many!
 
kaj

kaj

Alchemy in progress
Mines a 1950 ex council house.
Puds said:
Ditto, my house is not "me" at all.
A combination of original features that everyone tells me I 'can't" paint over or remove, second hand furniture that I hate & weird shaped through lounge with one end being very dark so colours that look nice one end, look hideous the other. Plus ceiling is papered in horrible lumpy paper that I tried to take down & when I saw the horror show underneath I stuck it back! Quotes for re-plastering were nightmare inducing.
I do upcycle & paint furniture,& do DIY, but for once I'd like to move to a place with normal walls, no dado rails that are cemented in ( thanks 1930's builders!) no corner fireplace that takes up half the room but can't be removed without rebuilding house, and light!
Plus chuck all furniture & start again, with new stuff that I actually like.
One day.
Lol I bet, as I am so contrary, that if I ever move, I'll miss my house!
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No square corners and we have to paper the walls before we paint. Have learnt my lesson - no stripes, no patterns, just plain! The walls are not straight and we have one place where the coving can be attached to the wall or the ceiling but not both. Removed one fireplace and the chimney breast fell down. The other is staying put! The furniture is mostly second hand, but pieces that I like, including a massive bookcase. But it's mine, I love it. And it has a large garden, my pride and joy
 
Puds

Puds

kaj said:
Mines a 1950 ex council house.

No square corners and we have to paper the walls before we paint. Have learnt my lesson - no stripes, no patterns, just plain! The walls are not straight and we have one place where the coving can be attached to the wall or the ceiling but not both. Removed one fireplace and the chimney breast fell down. The other is staying put! The furniture is mostly second hand, but pieces that I like, including a massive bookcase. But it's mine, I love it. And it has a large garden, my pride and joy
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I loved my house when we first bought it, The corner fireplaces & all it's quirks.
Now it is these quirks that make me want to commit arson.
Bit like my Ex, all the things that made me go , "Awww", were the very things that made me want to smother him in his sleep after a while! ;)
 
Alice

Alice

CrowyTech said:
Decided to treat myself to a nice new Howie style lab coat, got it in a nice baby blue, and all I'm getting now is the piss taken out of me, maybe I should've gone for a different colour :rolleyes:
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I really like it. At a previous school we all had howie style after one tech dropped a silver nitrate crystal down her cleavage.

Nobody should be asking you if it's your "coming out" coat. Comments like that should be reported.
 
JFKtech

JFKtech

CrowyTech said:
Well all staff have a colour, all students wear lab coats in the lab so to enable staff to stand out they wear a colour. Technicians have been in blue for quite a while, when I started, I inherited a navy blue one and fancied something a tad lighter.
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The PhD student demonstrators at my uni wore bright orange lab coats - one of the many reasons I didn't do a PhD :laughing:
 
KateA

KateA

I can't have orange - my husband used to work for the highways authority and the fitters all had orange overalls. I'm not sure I'm a pink person really, currently wearing a t shirt that announces that punk isn't dead
 
Alman

Alman

Currently rocking the dark blue lab coat which It'd be weird if people found that weird, I was tempted to try a purple lab coat and see what people would say!
 
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