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[olive]

That’s lovely. How will you use it? I’m pondering something similar in place of a coffee table.

I have just bought this lamp.

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ETA - it’s less gold looking in real life.

[smalex]

I also would be interested in what you'd do with it, Ella?

I love that lamp. Its so delicate.

[Ella77]

I like that lamp.

It will mostly go in front of the sofa. I might try and style it a bit* with a tray and stuff like a table .





* Yeah, style all the cat hair, perhaps

[olive]

My friend has done exactly that and it looks so good. She has a tray with a small bud vase, candles etc.

Her house looks like something out of a magazine though and she has 2 small children. She is like a living Sunday supplement and I’ve known her long enough to know that that’s what she is like in real life all the time.

[olive]

I love that lamp. Its so delicate.

Isn’t it?

I’m really struggling to buy furniture as the style here is typical heavy, dark wood American furniture which is totally not the style I would usually buy. It’s taken forever to get bits for the house.

[emma_p]

That's so nice Ella. I'd love something like that but it'd end up covered in hummus on the first day

Are her children immaculately turned out and very well-behaved, olive?

[emma_p]

Have you looked at Design Within Reach? We got our bed, rugs and my rocking chair from there - they have more European style stuff.

[Derek Nimmo]

I like that lamp.

It will mostly go in front of the sofa. I might try and style it a bit* with a tray and stuff like a table .

That's what I did with my long firm Ottoman-ish thing from John Lewis. It looks very nice - well I think so anyway - til B comes along every weekend and messes it up with all his boy shiz and moves it around because of his long legs and everything

[FiveO'Clock]

Have you looked at Design Within Reach? We got our bed, rugs and my rocking chair from there - they have more European style stuff.

Emma, their things are gorgeous! Olive, we furnished much of our house from Knoll, Herman Miller and All Modern.

[Ella77]

Sympathy, Derek. My biggest problem is the cats bombing around the place, so the tray plan may not fly. I don’t mind too much though .

Olive, places like Utility Design ship to the States. No idea how much shipping is, though.

emma, I Scotchguard the living crap out of everything when it’s new. It does help. Not sure anything protects against houmous, mind you!

[Pippedydeadeye]

That’s so stylish, the tray idea is really nice.

[olive]

Are her children immaculately turned out and very well-behaved, olive?

Pretty much!

Also thanks for the DWS rec, there is one not too far from me so I’ll go and have a look!

There’s also a Knoll there too so I’ll make a day of it.

[olive]

I am hopefully going to buy this mirror tomorrow;

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To replace this print above my hallway table;

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The white one is my back up:

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[olive]

Whilst I’m in the store I’m also going to check out the swatches for this ottoman/ coffee table;

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The base is fabric and the top is wood and you can take the top off so it can also be used as storage.

Less exciting - I have this ordered for the playroom:

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[smalex]

Thats a nice mirror Olive. I really like your console with the lamp, the mirror will suit so well. That poster is the story of my life right now

[smalex]

We went to W&H and liked this a lot:

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It's a two seat sofa bed , very neat and not huge which we need for the window bay and I really like the style. It would probably be in the minty coloured fabric draped over it. It's also comfortable as both a sofa (which it would be about 99.5% of it's life) and as a bed.

We need to look at one alternative in sofa.com next weekend. Buts it's bigger and probably doesn't suit quite so well. They do have a better range of fabrics though.

The snag is that I get mammoth discounts on sofa.com stuff so the W&H, while cheaper as a list price, would end up probably £500 more. It's such a big difference.

[Squirrel]

You went to W&H . I’m glad to hear it was comfortable. £500 more though . When I’m fantasy sofa buying I suffer from terrible price creep.

[Squirrel]

Olive I love your new things. That poster!

[smalex]

Also! We went into an antiques place nearby and I saw this and now I love it with all my heart. I thought about it all day and went back again this afternoon to try and un love it but it didn't work

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It's a piece of carved fretwork stone from 18th C Gujarat (Well, apparently anyway). It's £245. S looked at it completely bemused and said eventually if I really wanted it it's up to me but I can't bring myself to spend £245 of what would be shared money on something my husband doesn't care for and which has no purpose whatsoever. I wish I hadn't seen it

[smalex]

You went to W&H . I’m glad to hear it was comfortable. £500 more though . When I’m fantasy sofa buying I suffer from terrible price creep.

Its worth going. I really liked all the mattress and cushion options. If I didn't get huge sofa.com discounts W&H would be the economical option. Stupid big discounts giving me a home furnishing dilemma :firstworldsofaproblems: