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Wow! Changed a bit since we all saw it!
Wonderful work, Joce.
Wonderful work, Joce.
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Thank you. And thanks for all the help and advice of this wonderful forum too.
It makes 3 ceilings where we have installed wiring and repaired and Marie Antoinetted. I'm sure not everyone would agree with the decision of chandeliers but in my view it makes a more cheery and visible ( and consequently safer) home. Two of those rooms had very inadequate wall lights, and one had nothing at all. There is one room left now ( the future Campaign Room) which has no lighting bar plugging a lamp into an electric socket. I have no idea what we'll do with it as the ceiling is a proper bodge job but I know that when the time comes I'll get a lot of very helpful and knowledgeable suggestions here. Xxx
It makes 3 ceilings where we have installed wiring and repaired and Marie Antoinetted. I'm sure not everyone would agree with the decision of chandeliers but in my view it makes a more cheery and visible ( and consequently safer) home. Two of those rooms had very inadequate wall lights, and one had nothing at all. There is one room left now ( the future Campaign Room) which has no lighting bar plugging a lamp into an electric socket. I have no idea what we'll do with it as the ceiling is a proper bodge job but I know that when the time comes I'll get a lot of very helpful and knowledgeable suggestions here. Xxx
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Great progress, and I agree that a fine chandelier can really lift a room. As someone who takes a long time to finish things myself it's nice to see the care and time you are taking to get things right, rather then rushing to finish something you may not be happy with.
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I like chandeliers, they always add something special without modern design intruding into the room as with most other light combos.
The light and ceiling look good.
The light and ceiling look good.
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OMW, how much self-assembly did you have to do, Joce? I would have naively expected to receive it, fully assembled and carefully packaged, in a large box so all I had to do was lift it out and hang it. Well, get a strong man to lift it out and hang it... 
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Got there in the end!!! WELL DONE JOCE xx Champers all round
Just noticed that chandelier is almost exactly the same as mine, used to be in the drawing room at NN but on landing here, not doing justice to it really!!
Just noticed that chandelier is almost exactly the same as mine, used to be in the drawing room at NN but on landing here, not doing justice to it really!!
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But be sure that he doesn't wolf-whistle you, or call you "love". That would be outrageous.CatherineB said:
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Well done Joce (and Chris of course - that's number seven isn't it?). Looks lovely, though I'm not sure such things are entirely compatible with our dusting regime . . .
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What on earth is that? :shock:Flyfisher said:
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Good plan, MdB. I've been using a jigsaw for that purpose, and it takes me a fair while.
Your technique sounds much quicker. I'll tell Mrs P that you kindly suggested it. :twisted:
Your technique sounds much quicker. I'll tell Mrs P that you kindly suggested it. :twisted:
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Penners, what are you on---- your comments throughout tonight have been unusually flip-------- love it really!!
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Exactly.
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That's odd, Joss. I infer from your comment that I sometimes make sensible comments. I must try and do something about that.jocelyn plummer said:
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:lol:
I love Mr P's comments, flippant or otherwise!
As for all these painful mentionings of dust, if you messy men were married to me it would be a different story. I've never understood building waste and dust and rubbish accumulating, mess in the garden etc. As soon as it's created it must be removed, vaccumed, scoured, mopped, waxed! I put out 10 bags every week for the dustman and have 5 vacuums for different purposes - the chicken shed vacuum, one for the workshop, two for the house and one for the future pond.
Thanks for all the lovely comments about the chandelier work - Joss, yes, we had champagne under it on Sunday, and thanks to your kind words and encouragement and lovely pictures by post I persevered with the distemper and am quite pleased with the results.
Catherine - yes - the arrival of the thing in a large wooden crate with Chinese writing on, and everything inside wrapped in shiny plastic, was a bit of a shock! The company - Bonds - offer good support though and print out 3 pages of instructions. You have to wear white cotton gloves!
Nigel - yes - I completely agree with the slow approach, there's little point in rushing through the house and not being all that pleased with your repair or decoration or improvements.
I love Mr P's comments, flippant or otherwise!
As for all these painful mentionings of dust, if you messy men were married to me it would be a different story. I've never understood building waste and dust and rubbish accumulating, mess in the garden etc. As soon as it's created it must be removed, vaccumed, scoured, mopped, waxed! I put out 10 bags every week for the dustman and have 5 vacuums for different purposes - the chicken shed vacuum, one for the workshop, two for the house and one for the future pond.
Thanks for all the lovely comments about the chandelier work - Joss, yes, we had champagne under it on Sunday, and thanks to your kind words and encouragement and lovely pictures by post I persevered with the distemper and am quite pleased with the results.
Catherine - yes - the arrival of the thing in a large wooden crate with Chinese writing on, and everything inside wrapped in shiny plastic, was a bit of a shock! The company - Bonds - offer good support though and print out 3 pages of instructions. You have to wear white cotton gloves!
Nigel - yes - I completely agree with the slow approach, there's little point in rushing through the house and not being all that pleased with your repair or decoration or improvements.
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MdB said:
First I laughed out loud at Penner's shock, something that with a broken arm I am getting very familiar with, and then I laughed all over again at Flyfisher's regular housekeeping practice. I'm also very good at things like that. :roll:
On a serious note though Jose, that room is looking lovely and the chandelier is beautiful. Thank God you didn't kit it out with those awful low energy horrors. You'd best stock-pile bulbs, I keep meaning to lay loads in store. :idea:
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A pleasure Joce. Oddly enough, if you look on Rightmove for Walsingham you will find the details of our last house now being re- marketed by another Agent, it shows very clearly the bedroom where they have kept the wall colour I used.. Francesca's chalky emulsion, Rose 1.Still looks good after 3 years!!
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That's a rather sexist assumption Joce. Mrs FF is more than a match for me when it comes to being messy. :lol:
A vacuum cleaner for the (future) pond though? :shock:
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I have just come across this guidance for the layout and furnishing of a dining room which you may find of interest:
"you must positively alter this dining-room, that is remodel it altogether; look here it is just sixteen feet by fifteen; did any man ever hear of a dining-room of such proportions!" and the archdeacon stepped the room long-ways and cross-ways with ponderous steps, as though a certain amount of ecclesiastical dignity could be imparted even to such an occupation as that by the manner of doing it. "Barely sixteen; you may call it square."
"It would do well for a round table," suggested the ex-warden.
Now there was something peculiarly unorthodox in the archdeacon's estimation in the idea of a round table. He had always been accustomed to a goodly board of decent length, comfortably elongating itself according to the number of guests, nearly black with perpetual rubbing, and as bright as a mirror. Now round dinner tables are generally of oak, or else of such new construction as not to have acquired the particular hue that was so pleasing to him. He connected them with what he called the nasty new fangled method of leaving a cloth on the table, as though to warn people that they were not to sit long. In his eyes there was something democratic and parvenue in a round table. He imagined that dissenters and calico-printers chiefly used them, and perhaps a few literary lions more conspicuous for their wit than their gentility. He was a little flurried at the idea of such an article being introduced into the diocese by a protege of his own, and at the instigation of his father-in-law.
"A round dinner-table," said he with some heat, "is the most abominable article of furniture that ever was invented."
"you must positively alter this dining-room, that is remodel it altogether; look here it is just sixteen feet by fifteen; did any man ever hear of a dining-room of such proportions!" and the archdeacon stepped the room long-ways and cross-ways with ponderous steps, as though a certain amount of ecclesiastical dignity could be imparted even to such an occupation as that by the manner of doing it. "Barely sixteen; you may call it square."
"It would do well for a round table," suggested the ex-warden.
Now there was something peculiarly unorthodox in the archdeacon's estimation in the idea of a round table. He had always been accustomed to a goodly board of decent length, comfortably elongating itself according to the number of guests, nearly black with perpetual rubbing, and as bright as a mirror. Now round dinner tables are generally of oak, or else of such new construction as not to have acquired the particular hue that was so pleasing to him. He connected them with what he called the nasty new fangled method of leaving a cloth on the table, as though to warn people that they were not to sit long. In his eyes there was something democratic and parvenue in a round table. He imagined that dissenters and calico-printers chiefly used them, and perhaps a few literary lions more conspicuous for their wit than their gentility. He was a little flurried at the idea of such an article being introduced into the diocese by a protege of his own, and at the instigation of his father-in-law.
"A round dinner-table," said he with some heat, "is the most abominable article of furniture that ever was invented."
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Well I'm glad, nay relieved, to report that our own dinner table is "a goodly board of decent length, comfortably elongating itself according to the number of guests".
Round indeed! Why, who is to divine where the head of such a table is to be found? Thus, where should the master of the house be seated?
No good can come of it.
Round indeed! Why, who is to divine where the head of such a table is to be found? Thus, where should the master of the house be seated?
No good can come of it.