Lesley Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 (edited) Some nosey people are asking for photos of peoples houses................ I'll take some photos later....... and I'm sure Kate will re-post hers in here? Edited December 27, 2007 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Are you calling me nosey, Lesley ! Mine are in my album in my siggy link. Too many to post here . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted December 27, 2007 Author Share Posted December 27, 2007 Aren't we all nosey on here? - that's what I meant! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feemcg Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Oh no!, I'll need to tidy up again first. This thread should be called 'Who lives in a house like this?' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted December 27, 2007 Author Share Posted December 27, 2007 - I like it, I'll change the title!! I should have taken photos earlier - we're now pet rat sitting for Lauren's and Jake's new pets - and their enormous cage is taking up half the dining table .... and we still haven't discovered all of the kitchen since Christmas Day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Kate can I move in? I won't take pics as our house hasnt been done. In places we're still living with the previous owners delightful flowery and stripey wallpaper (yes on the same paper). The purple and pink room did get done for the boys though. I will though be saying I want one like that (points at Kates/ whoever else I like) when we do get round to eventually doing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhapsody Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 I might post some of my place for sheer comedy value. I live in a Mediaeval Tithe Hall (sounds grand but tis tiny) than has been slowly ruined by a sucession of cheapskate idiots. Item 1- The stair-free 4ft drop from the living room to the foul little conservatory that is big enough for 1 chair and a potted palm. Presumably installed by someone who needed to bump off an elderly live-in relative for the legacy- "Oooh its a lovely day Auntie Maud, why dont you go sit with your knitting in the sunroom?" Item 2- The mock victorian bathroom complete with shag-pile carpet and a shower that floods the entire ground floor. Item 3- The smoked oak kitchen *retch* with nowhere to put a fridge. Item 4- The Vile Mahogany Bedroom, straight out of 'Terry and June', like sleeping in a cigar box. Also no central heating and only wood-fired hot water, no mains gas. I must post some pics, the descriptions dont do it justice. Our LOndon friends come and visit when they need a laugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Your house sounds facinating Rhapsody! I would love to see it I do like to see other peoples houses as they seem to have such good ideas and colour sense (Lesley and Kate - yours are beautiful). My house is a total hotch potch of every idea I've ever seen and taken a shine to If I ever see it again I might take a photo (it's disappeared under a toy tsunami at the moment ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 I put some pictures in my gallery http://club.omlet.co.uk/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=19818 These are Christmassy pictures, but they show the living room anyway. http://club.omlet.co.uk/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=19792 No one is seeing my bathroom or kitchen until I get new ones- next year, perhaps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 We've just put in a new cloakroom (it really has been the year of DIY here ). I'll have to stick some photos in my album . Bathroom due for a refit next year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Kate you have a beautiful home I love your colour scheme in the kitchen, I have white and green too If you don't mind me asking, how old is your house, there are aspects which appear Victorian, but is it quite new? I especially love the front door and the windows. I must take some photos, but my home isn't quite up to everyone elses standards, lots of second hand tat and home made bits and pieces, sometimes created with gritted teeth! (if I can't do it myself I do without ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Kate- I like your blue chicken wind chime in your conservatory- where did you get it from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 I found it in a garden centre a couple of years ago, Jules. They did have them in the Omlet shop a while ago too. I don't know if they'll bring them back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Kate you have a beautiful home I love your colour scheme in the kitchen, I have white and green too If you don't mind me asking, how old is your house, there are aspects which appear Victorian, but is it quite new? I especially love the front door and the windows. I don't mind you asking at all . The house is only 13 years old and is a typical modern build but I've got so much old stuff that I'm afraid my passion for 30s and 40s kitchenalia has rubbed off on the rest of the house . We didn't want a new house at all but as Ollie was a sickly child, we had to abandon plans to buy a rather damp Victorian house in the next town and go for the benefits of a nice new house. Turns out this one is far more damp than the older one was though ! You should see the condensation on the windows in the mornings! The green walls in the kitchen echo my passion for 1930s green things . lots of second hand tat and home made bits and pieces Ditto - and charity shop and car boot sale bargains And ebay ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 I will post some piccys of mine in my gallery too. My house is an 120 year old cottage with a stream forming part of the boundry,& it was part of the estate of 'The Big House' up the road...it was the gamekeepers cottage. The garden is a third of an acre, but we yearn for more. It was a hide out for one of The Great Train Robbers at one stage & we bought it about 16 years ago when it had been empty for many,many years. We Gazzumped Leslie Grantham to get it It was 2 up,2 down with no electricity,gas or water, & we (well he really) have done 2 large extentions to it. It cost us a tiny amount as it was in such very bad condition.One mortgage company said we were buying a plot of land,not a house. It even had old horsehair plaster on the walls. I love it here,but as I said before,we would love more land,so a move may be in the offing in the near future............ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Sounds wonderful Sarah. Please do post some photos . I'd love a house with history so we're on the look out for somewhere with land and an old house too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craftyhunnypie Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Lovely home Kate! Your style is very much like mine! We have a 1930's house & try & keep everything traditional & in keeping with the era. I don't do modern furniture really - apart from the office. Although in our next house, we've said we'd like a traditional writing desk with leather top & captains chair. Hubby has said he wants a library We started today by buying a bookcase for all our new books! Love old things & antique furniture - I like quality ! Yes, we are all nosey on here, but if we like something, then we always give compliments, which I think is nice! So Kate - I love your home, it's beautiful & I could move into it tomorrow as well as Lesleys home! Emma.x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 I love an old house too. Our old cottage was a thatched 1500-1550 cottage but as is the normal case it was tiny so we now live in a rather larger (though still not big enough) excouncil house. My utility now is bigger than my old kitchen. I do miss the history but it just wasnt big enough for the three of us and a large dog let alone the five that we are now. That house like Leslies has been on tv. It was on to buy or not to buy a couple of years ago. I don't think I have any pictures of it which is a shame as I wasnt embarrassed of it like I am this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted December 27, 2007 Author Share Posted December 27, 2007 Ours looks quite different to when it was on Location, Location just before we bought it. I'm gradually changing the woodwork to white (from orangey/brown varnish), the front door has been painted sage green, I'm half way through tiling over the kitchen tiles and have painted the kitchen units cream (again, from orangey/brown) We've ripped out the en-suite basin, toilet and big corner bath and replaced them with smaller ones and no bath. We blocked in the open stairs and carpeted them and I've painted our bedroom. It was a 3 month old house, but just not our taste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 found a pic but its not a very good one. (plus it had to be one where it needed painting) but at least now people can shout thats brons cottage if they see a repea of the program Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 That's lovely Bron . Absolutely lovely. Lesley, the changes you've made to your house are amazing . It's so nice to see you putting your stamp on it and making it YOUR home after so long waiting for it and all the worry that accompanied the move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Bron, that house is gorgeous! Is it the one you live in now? My house is a typical Victorian terrace, built in 1896 and completely wrecked by the previous owners who lived in it from 1938 until I bought it in 1994. They just couldn't resist having every conceivable hideous latest fashion in house decoration. They must have wasted thousands on it. I even had to rip stone cladding off the front, from the early 70's, resulting in the cleanest Victorian bricks on a house you will see anywhere All the downstairs woodwork had to be replaced, as everything had been clad over in the 50's to create smooth lines (even the skirting ), and behind the cladding everything was rotton or had big holes cut out. I went into Wickes and had to buy ten internal doors, one back door and one front door, twelve in total, plus ridiculous amounts of architrave and skirting. It took 13 months to renovate and I spent every penny I earnt on it. Each month I had tradesmen in for the first week and then my money was spent, so had to mess around doing what I could for three weeks until the next pay packet. It was such a big job, but worth it Oh, and I removed almost 500 cup hooks from the property Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Ok, a little picture of my house The inside isn't photo worthy yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Ooh Christian, that is lovely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheilaz Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 (edited) ....Oh, and I removed almost 500 cup hooks from the property That's an awful lot of teacups, I'd have made good use of those hooks! Lovely to see a house so well restored, I saw the pic in Christmas trees. They made houses to last in 1896 didn't they? Glad it's in good hands now. Christian, that's lovely. I've always meant to have a door like that (stable style), just like the Woodentops. Edited December 27, 2007 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...