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[Nigel Watts]

The mantelpiece looks late 18th C to me, c 1780-90 perhaps?

If the room is otherwise fairly plain I would wallpaper it - perhaps in a damask type design like it currently has - and give it some lush silk curtains of the no-holes-barred-Joce-in-full-swing type with pelmets and swags. To get a good Georgian look you wouldn't need much furniture but you would need something to hang on the walls, ideally a mirror and some oil paintings in gilt frames, or some old prints perhaps?

 

[JoceAndChris]

I agree with everything Nigel said so well there - a lovely damask paper would be a lot easier than my idea.

It can be very hard to impose the false plaster effects on rooms that weren't designed for them - that's what I meant by green and white really - so picking out the plaster and woodwork details in white, with flashes of gilt, whilst the main walls are in plain green - like this -http://www.farrow-ball.com/folly-green/colours//fcp-product/100076, with curtains in gold silk with swags and tails and tassels and pompoms, two gilt and green upholstered chairs, a gigantic golden harp, a large crystal chandelier, and a beautiful mahogany antique something, where perhaps a golden epergne could rest, spilling over with Turkish Delight and truffles.

I'd have to move in!

 

[Flyfisher]

I would call that a "sage-y green" (heathen that I am) and, coincidentally, it's quite a favourite that we've used in previous houses.

Unfortunately, the room has no real plasterwork to work with, not even any sort of coving, and the ceiling is not particularly high (a legacy from its Tudor origins), so I have doubts about it having the headroom for a large chandelier.

I'd have to move in!

Just let me know when you're free. :wink:

 

[Moo]

When you strip the walls you may find traces of a dado rail and/or a picture rail, which might confuse things even more.

 

[Penners]

"sage-y green"

Excellent colour. Goes very well with magnolia.

 

[Flyfisher]

Hmm. I didn't have you down as such a magolia fan. :wink:

An interesting point, Moo, about what might lurk below the wallpaper, though I'm in no immediate rush to start yet another job - not until I get into the habit of finishing a few of the ones already in progress (I must confess that winter has taken its toll and things have slowed to a rather too leisurely pace**).







** according to Mrs FF.

 

[Penners]

Hmm. I didn't have you down as such a magnolia fan.

In fact, joking aside, I am. The colour is so ubiquitous that it's become something to sneer at, but as a comfortable, gentle, neutral colour that brightens and freshens a room, I don't think it can be beaten.

 

[Moo]

I wonder what Farrow'nBall call their version?

 

[Matt Green]

I would call that a "sage-y green"

I'm becoming of the opinion that sage-y green is the new magnolia in properties for the aspiring classes. Did anyone see the spread in The Times magazine on Saturday on how to transform 'an average Edwardian House' into 'something special'? The answer appeared to be to paint every wall sage-y green, by which I mean they had the paint in every picture of every room. And if that house was average, I need to buck my ideas up and move out of the Victorian slum I'm in.

M.

 

[Penners]

I wonder what Farrow'nBall call their version?

I sniff a little competition in the making: "Name That Colour".

I suggest that F&B's version of magnolia would be called La Crème de la Crème

 

[Moo]

'Rice Pudding' ?

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Am I the only one mildly diverted by the comedic potential of Matt Green posting on sage-y green paint?

8)

 

[FamilyWiggs]

On the FnB magnolia paint name, wouldn't it be something like:

Foam of midnight-picked wild porcini mushrooms?

 

[Nigel Watts]

Am I the only one mildly diverted by the comedic potential of Matt Green posting on sage-y green paint?

And presumably not in gloss or eggshell.

 

[Penners]

Foam of midnight-picked wild porcini mushrooms?

Sod the paint! That's going to be my starter in the restaurant tonight.

 

[CatherineB]

Am I the only one mildly diverted by the comedic potential of Matt Green posting on sage-y green paint?

And presumably not in gloss or eggshell.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[JoceAndChris]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

But boringly, the colour closest to Magnolia on the FnB chart is Dorset Cream - I dont know why Dorset get it but it's a lovely colour, as Penners says - with the proviso that FnB is much nicer than Dulux ;o)

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Sod the paint!

I think that breaches at least three Commandments, as well as a few local bye-laws round these parts.

 

[Penners]

I do apologise - I thought it was just colourful language.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

:roll:

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Groan, Penners.


That was an exclaimation, not an instruction