The Mock Turtle

Posted: **Tue Oct 24, 2023 5:37 pm**

Morganna wrote: ↑Thu Dec 29, 2022 4:47 pm May the force be with you! They look really good, Est.

I'm on a roll after years of buying very little for the house, and have bought this but in the gold colour (so the large size in the amber glass).

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I got the floor lamp too, also in the softer colour. We went into the shop to check them out, and I'm pleased we did, as initially I liked the silver ones, but when you see them irl there is no petrol tinge to them like the online blub suggests, and the amber ones are a lot nicer. Also the shop can order things that aren't available online. As they aren't a stock order I have to wait for delivery, but we aren't sitting in the dark, so it doesn't matter. Meanwhile, I am on the lookout for wall lights and a table lamp that will tone with them, if anyone has any ideas of what would work? Currently we have tiffany lights, which I like a lot but am sick of looking at, and definitely won't go with the new things. I want something that isn't matching, but still looks 'put together'. I usually have the wall lights, floor lamp and table lamp on together to light from the edges, and if I can find something to arrive soon that would be great.

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I knew I hadn't dreamt it

You definitely have a type Morgs!

Posted: **Tue Oct 24, 2023 6:47 pm**

emma_p wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 5:31 pm I've had that pic saved for over a year! The colour looks so good with dirty London brick

I really like that! We have yellow(ish) brick and I was looking for a greeny grey but I might get a sample of that.

I'd need to get it mixed for uPVC paint though

Posted: **Tue Oct 24, 2023 8:38 pm**

That is the perfect color for your front door!

It must have been her lamp that I was after. I still need to find something for the bookshelves but I might shop my house to see if I can rearrange things.

Posted: **Thu Oct 26, 2023 12:53 am**

emma_p wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 5:37 pm I knew I hadn't dreamt it You definitely have a type Morgs!

Ah yes

My confusion arose as that light is clear when lit and more silver than gold when off, so I didn’t connect it with amber. Well remembered!

I thought the round lamp would go with it, but I have got round the problem by taking a cordless one from the sideboard in the hall and putting it on the side table, replacing it with a cheaper mushroom lamp (from eBay) in the hall until I finish the decorating and kitchen. I’ll reconsider then when my budget is a bit healthier.

Posted: **Thu Oct 26, 2023 8:50 am**

Light fittings are $$$ and it's so hard to find the right one.

Posted: **Thu Oct 26, 2023 5:07 pm**

Light fittings are a horrendous price. See also; taps. I have no idea why really.

Posted: **Thu Oct 26, 2023 11:33 pm**

I know, as I am shopping for both just now (lights for bedrooms and a kitchen tap). Light fittings are expensive, but you can usually see the difference between a cheap and an expensive one, but taps baffle me. Why are some of them hundreds of pounds and others tens? I don't know at what point a 'cheap' tap crosses over into 'good quality', and apart from the boiling water ones they all do the same thing. It's a bit like Fiona Bruce deciding between Good, Better, Best on the AR.

Posted: **Sun Nov 19, 2023 4:15 pm**

My plumber said that the cartridges in cheap taps tend to go very quickly - we bought a really cheap kitchen tap in our old place that was actually a lovely brushed metal so I thought was a total bargain - but it did start to look crap really quickly.

Both the pillowcases on my favourite set of bed linen have ripped from being worn (and not somewhere I can mend them easily) so I treated us to a new set of Liberty bed linen as it was in the Black Friday sale. This is the first set of bed linen I've had in about the last 15 years that hasn't been white!

Posted: **Tue Nov 21, 2023 11:42 pm**

emma_p wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 8:50 am Light fittings are $$$ and it's so hard to find the right one.

PSA - If anyone is looking for light fittings, Pooky has a BF sale on. I chose the lights for my new kitchen ages ago, but have held off ordering because they are large and I didn’t want them hanging about with all the rest of the displaced items. I got an email today about the sale, and got 20% off, which was a good saving

. The sale is across the site with different discounts depending on the spend.

Posted: **Thu Dec 07, 2023 1:36 pm**

I have used my Pooky points towards this. As I change table lamps I am getting rechargeable ones as they are so much more flexible, and plan to put this one on the mantelpiece where there is a mirror behind it which will reflect the light back into the room. If the brass shade isn't as nice irl as in the picture, I will send it back and exchange it for a fabric one.

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Posted: **Sat Dec 23, 2023 8:12 am**

I am very strongly considering buying this in the Boxing Day sale for our TV room. It comes with two sets of covers and is fully machine washable which is required as dogs are allowed on the furniture in that room.

Posted: **Sat Dec 23, 2023 8:57 am**

That looks very comfy and I love the green! 2 sets of covers is such a good idea.

Posted: **Sat Dec 23, 2023 9:39 am**

It was the colour that drew me to it. MrE is on board but actually thinks we need more modular pieces so we can get rid of the armchairs in that room too.

Posted: **Sat Dec 23, 2023 1:26 pm**

I like that, especially the already bum dipped areas.

We’d like a new sofa, but we will wait until the main training is done.

Posted: **Sat Dec 23, 2023 10:01 pm**

We had a couple of sofas years ago with a couple of sets of washable covers, and it was great. Then M started his leather furniture craze, but I'm having no more of that. I loved the smell of the room when the covers were freshly washed.

Posted: **Sat Dec 23, 2023 10:48 pm**

I like the look of that sofa. We love our new(ish) modular sofa.

Glint, that is wise! Our last sofa left the house with a puppy-related hole right through the seat.

Posted: **Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:28 pm**

I bought this small bedside lamp https://www.dunelm.com/product/hera-tex ... lour=Olive from Dunelm; it's way closer to a bottle green than olive. Then of course none of the lightbulbs that I had in my box of electrical shit fitted

Back to Sainsbury's for lightbulbs.

I also bought a frame for the LOTR inspired map of Derbyshire that I got last month from Etsy seller. It's super quality but the details are so tiny, I'm not sure it's going to work as wall art.

Posted: **Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:41 am**

I like your lamp!

A friend gave me this one as an early birthday present https://abigailahern.com/products/mushr ... lamp-mango

It’s very cute, gives a nice light and you can move it about! Batteries, innit.

Posted: **Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:04 am**

Both of those lamps are lovely, Rosy and Elya.

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