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Well, since you've mentioned them . . . .
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I can only thank you for that mental image.
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[Naughty schoolboy expression on] It's not our fault, it's LadyA provoking us with all her talk of ladies undergarments. Honest! [/Naughty schoolboy expression off]
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I wasn't, but now...
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I must be the other 50% I'm still escaping modern aesthetics!
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What is that?
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A bit of 6mm steel intended to connect my 1910 timber frame to my 2015 timber frame to help avoid roof spread. Thought I would try to make it pretty. It is on it's side in the photo.
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OK, back to the modern aesthetics. I went looking for a kitchen. I want a coloured one. I found a coloured one. It was lovely but way out of my price bracket so I've had to settle for a grey one. The retailer said they used to sell coloured kitchens but discontinued them because nowadays the fashion is for white, cream, beige, grey. What is truly galling is that the company selling the kitchen I really wanted rang me to ask if I was still interested and then asked where I had bought from and how much. After I told them they said they would have matched that price. Bit late now I've paid for it.
I thought that's OK I'll brighten it up with coloured tiles and paint. The retailers are following the trend caused by the programs on TV that say that homes should be bland. With modern technology we seem to have lost the desire for colour in our homes.
When I went to the aisle selling tiles for the kitchen the only ones that weren't bland were either pillarbox red or black.
My son is enlarging my bathroom which means I will lose my rather expensive, imported, lovely tiles. He thought he'd get away with a "modern" style bathroom with "travertine" tiles. Bl@@dy beige again. I'm buying more of the ones that were there. :mrgreen:
I thought that's OK I'll brighten it up with coloured tiles and paint. The retailers are following the trend caused by the programs on TV that say that homes should be bland. With modern technology we seem to have lost the desire for colour in our homes.
When I went to the aisle selling tiles for the kitchen the only ones that weren't bland were either pillarbox red or black.
My son is enlarging my bathroom which means I will lose my rather expensive, imported, lovely tiles. He thought he'd get away with a "modern" style bathroom with "travertine" tiles. Bl@@dy beige again. I'm buying more of the ones that were there. :mrgreen:
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I've found that too. I have recently refitted my bathroom, it is on another thread. I wanted 6 x 3 flat tiles, not bevel edged. These used to be the most common tiles in the world, but now that are pretty much special order. If I had accepted bevel edged I could have had any colour but flat ones are much nicer. I could have got white ones from Johnson's for a reasonable price, but we wanted a colour. The two options were original style at £90/m^2 or Minton Hollins at around £120/m^2. We bought the Original style ones and they are very nice, but there should be a cheaper option, these are very simple products. Everyone I know who has settled for metro (bevelled) tiles complains that they look bad where two walls meet and they would have preferred flat ones.
I confess we used *greige* porcelain tiles in one of the bathrooms at our last house :wink: That was mainly because we knew at that point we were going to sell up when the house was finished and having previously been told our deep red (and blooming expensive!) bathroom was off putting to potential buyers, we thought we'd heed this advice :roll:
The other two bathrooms were a different story, with bold colours used throughout!
TBH, we had little trouble sourcing interesting tiles, but that might be on account of having connections in the bathroom industry. Additionally there was a great little independent tile shop near us on the outskirts of Shaftesbury that had a wide selection to choose from. I do agree that the sheds can be pretty dire when looking for inspiration outside the perceived current trends :roll: Previously we have found Fired Earth (non-bevelled) metro tiles to be suitable for our requirements, although they may no longer stock the range of colours they had when we last purchased in 2008. I have occasionally seen these selling reasonably priced on fleabay - in fact I once missed a joblot of several metres that sold for 99p.......grrrr!
Kitchen-wise, I'd always rather buy an unpainted one and DIY in the colour of choice (or get a professional in if you're not handy with a paintbrush!) - we've bought unpainted classic inframe kitchens for our last three houses and have found these compare extremely favourably on the £££ front with off-the-shelf cabinets from the likes of Howdens etc.......I'm currently in the throes of painting our new kitchen (from Handmade Kitchens of Christchurch) and am very pleased with the result......although I have to admit it's going to be shades of cream & beige*, with the island (and tiles) being the injection of colour!
Mims x
*If it's any consolation, it is Kashmir Beige - from Craig & Rose's Victorian Collection
The other two bathrooms were a different story, with bold colours used throughout!
TBH, we had little trouble sourcing interesting tiles, but that might be on account of having connections in the bathroom industry. Additionally there was a great little independent tile shop near us on the outskirts of Shaftesbury that had a wide selection to choose from. I do agree that the sheds can be pretty dire when looking for inspiration outside the perceived current trends :roll: Previously we have found Fired Earth (non-bevelled) metro tiles to be suitable for our requirements, although they may no longer stock the range of colours they had when we last purchased in 2008. I have occasionally seen these selling reasonably priced on fleabay - in fact I once missed a joblot of several metres that sold for 99p.......grrrr!
Kitchen-wise, I'd always rather buy an unpainted one and DIY in the colour of choice (or get a professional in if you're not handy with a paintbrush!) - we've bought unpainted classic inframe kitchens for our last three houses and have found these compare extremely favourably on the £££ front with off-the-shelf cabinets from the likes of Howdens etc.......I'm currently in the throes of painting our new kitchen (from Handmade Kitchens of Christchurch) and am very pleased with the result......although I have to admit it's going to be shades of cream & beige*, with the island (and tiles) being the injection of colour!
Mims x
*If it's any consolation, it is Kashmir Beige - from Craig & Rose's Victorian Collection
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I blame TV programmes for the ubiquity of greige kitchens and bathrooms. At least greige is one step better than the now defunct fashion for faded pastel curtains, bedlinen etc. I used to tear my hair out in the 1980s when I was trying to decorate on a shoestring. Thank heaven for charity shops ...
Ikea do some flaming red kitchen cupboard doors at a very reasonable price that we plan to put in the stable conversion. Sadly they no longer do the racing green glass doors that I used in my last place cos they looked great in an old timber framed house.
I am interested in using acrylic sheet for splashbacks and cupboard doors. It comes in a wide range of colours, textures and thicknesses. What I need to get my head round is how to bend it, fix it, add hinges etc but I have found a good supplier who I will have deep discussions with. Has anyone used it and have useful tips for me?
I am also interested in glass worksurfaces for kitchen and bathroom which again come in a good range of colours and thicknesses including a 'recycled' option
Ikea do some flaming red kitchen cupboard doors at a very reasonable price that we plan to put in the stable conversion. Sadly they no longer do the racing green glass doors that I used in my last place cos they looked great in an old timber framed house.
I am interested in using acrylic sheet for splashbacks and cupboard doors. It comes in a wide range of colours, textures and thicknesses. What I need to get my head round is how to bend it, fix it, add hinges etc but I have found a good supplier who I will have deep discussions with. Has anyone used it and have useful tips for me?
I am also interested in glass worksurfaces for kitchen and bathroom which again come in a good range of colours and thicknesses including a 'recycled' option
No experience of acrylic sheet splashbacks I'm afraid (although we did briefly consider using similar but clear, colourless over Voysey wallpaper behind our range cooker at the last house), but there's a poster on MSE (the green fingered forum, daydreamer's thread - think she's called Ferret Keeper) who is going into production of glass splashbacks for kitchens, bathrooms etc.......
Friends of ours (converting a former pub in Shropshire) are putting in a bright orange tap and matching grout in their glossy white, handle-less kitchen......not our taste but at least it's different and certainly not typically *high street* :shock:
Mims x
Friends of ours (converting a former pub in Shropshire) are putting in a bright orange tap and matching grout in their glossy white, handle-less kitchen......not our taste but at least it's different and certainly not typically *high street* :shock:
Mims x
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I tiled the bathroom in our previous house with Minton Hollins.
That was in 1990/91. Don't recall the overall cost, but the plain tiles were @£3 and the pictures @£6. The border tiles and top rolls and running rope were also ££££. I think on that wall each running 6" was about £30.
After a problem with the shower many years later, I was relieved to find they were still in production, but less pleased to discover that they were now in foreign measurements and therefore useless to me.
Lovely tiles.
We also tiled the bathroom in our first house dark red with a suite to match. Not so good.
The difference was that in our first house we had hard water and no water softener. Every splash marked the bath/tiles.
In our next house we installed a Kinetico, so no hard water problems.
Dark tiles and hard water: Arrrgh.
Ivor
That was in 1990/91. Don't recall the overall cost, but the plain tiles were @£3 and the pictures @£6. The border tiles and top rolls and running rope were also ££££. I think on that wall each running 6" was about £30.
After a problem with the shower many years later, I was relieved to find they were still in production, but less pleased to discover that they were now in foreign measurements and therefore useless to me.
Lovely tiles.
We also tiled the bathroom in our first house dark red with a suite to match. Not so good.
The difference was that in our first house we had hard water and no water softener. Every splash marked the bath/tiles.
In our next house we installed a Kinetico, so no hard water problems.
Dark tiles and hard water: Arrrgh.
Ivor