Strange & Unusual Houses

cluefree · Post by **cluefree** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 10:49 pm

It looks like a murderer's lair. :cry:

smalex · Post by **smalex** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 9:07 am

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for ... 17274.html

Really amused by the out of focus shots of the corners of room. No. 10 is my favourite, a fuzzy photo of a pile of food (and its so a 'I'm going to tidy by piling things up', pile).

Bat Macdui · Post by **Bat Macdui** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 9:14 am

That sofa is way, way, way too big for the room it is in.

Ella · Post by **Ella** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 9:19 am

That's a very unpleasant sitting room. It looks as though sitting in it would make a person feel low-level bad and twitchy.

smalex · Post by **smalex** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 9:24 am

It is too big. The description says its 'well presented' which I think is a stretch.

Its the same style as our house, I can't envisage how they've rammed that sofa in. I hope our living room doesn't feel as unpleasant!

Ella · Post by **Ella** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 9:26 am

Do you have that sofa and that wallpaper

? If not then you're probably fine.

Bat Macdui · Post by **Bat Macdui** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 9:30 am

Do you have a corner sofa, smal?

Mine ruined my marriage....

smalex · Post by **smalex** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 9:33 am

Ella77 wrote:Do you have that sofa and that wallpaper ? If not then you're probably fine.

My poor wallpaper and sofa :cry: . :)) No, we don't.

How did a corner sofa ruin your marriage Bats? I'm not massively keen on corner sofas, so we do not have one.

Ella · Post by **Ella** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 9:38 am

I feel very strongly anti- the corner sofa.

smalex · Post by **smalex** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 9:40 am

I don't want to offend anyone with my corner sofa opinions

. I could write several paragraphs on my dislike though :lol:

ParisGal · Post by **ParisGal** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 9:44 am

Ooh, do tell

We are on the fence, with a straight sofa with an extended chaise longue bit at one end. I don't really like corner sofas either but I have no idea why :lol:

Bat Macdui · Post by **Bat Macdui** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 9:47 am

A while after we got the corner sofa I realised we had just slipped into having our own space on it. Me on the corner bit, feet up, and him on the other end. There was just no opportunity for casual touching, not in a sex way, just companionable. No feet up on him, or anything. It sort of cemented own space in a way that I don't think was ultimately all that nice. :))

Bat Macdui · Post by **Bat Macdui** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 9:48 am

Obviously, if you're naturally tactile and actually like your partner, this need not happen. :))

smalex · Post by **smalex** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 9:49 am

Welll. They're usually too big, and randomly divide rooms up at inappropriate points, or block radiators or other fittings. They just don't look very nice to my eye, I think a well designed and proportioned sofa is a very attractive thing, but a corner sofa looks like its just all oozed out all over a living room. They never seem to be that comfortable (although, granted, I've never lived with one). There's something about them that feels like its a bit institutional, like a doctors waiting room or a reception (its the modular nature of them, I think). They're just.. I'm not keen. I could go on but I probably shouldn't.

smalex · Post by **smalex** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 9:53 am

Hmm, I can see that, Bats. I sort of felt like that a bit when we got an armchair, having previously just had the sofa. On the otherhand, a 3 seat sofa just isn't sufficient for 2 adults and a growing boy, so it had to happen. The armchair is lovely but not good for curling up, so then at least it does make us both sit on the sofa, together, quite often.

Bat Macdui · Post by **Bat Macdui** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 9:54 am

My ex-corner sofa is now in two halves and is probably much happier for it. One half now lives in my catsitter's conservatory, where is is bed for sleeping dogs, as she also boards huskies. The other half in in my conservatory, draped in stripy blankets, pretending to be a chaise longue. This is a much better purpose for a corner sofa than being a corner sofa.

ParisGal · Post by **ParisGal** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 10:03 am

We have the same thing really, Bats, with the own space aspect, but I quite like it as we get plenty of enforced closeness in our stupidly small bed :)) We actually used to sit closer on the sofa but it's really crappy so we try to spread the load better now :lol:

I think corner sofas I've seen IRL have always been correctly sized for the rooms, so it must be more the waiting room aspect that you mention, smal. Over here "Moroccan" style sitting rooms are fairly popular and I really don't like those either as it's the full waiting room style.

smalex · Post by **smalex** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 10:05 am

Oh! :cry:

Bat Macdui · Post by **Bat Macdui** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 10:07 am

That's a bit horrible. :( It does look like a corporate space, rather than a living room.

ParisGal · Post by **ParisGal** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 10:07 am

:lol: They're not all that common, but as a country with a lot of people who have north african roots, there are quite a lot around.

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