For me, that’s more of an issue in a gallery with spots. But of course it also depends on the work being displayed - strong contrast or subtle washes…
…and LUFC survive!
I used a combo of panel adhesive on one and the rest plugged and screwed
Nearly, if West Ham lose on Sunday then they can’t go down.
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And quite possibly a double celebration in North London.
Once again Monday I guess?
Time for an update on bathroom project.. nearly there, just got some skirting to finish and other bits and bobs.
Tough scribing the skirtings when the old walls are a bit wobbly!
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It’s coming on, looks nice. 
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those chairs!
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Very nice and I hope that your nerves have held out well during the process?
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Nerves fine, but OH’s knees/lower back have not enjoyed three coats of linseed oil and térébenthine.
Bit rustic for my taste, but seem to recall some elegant Fifties Ercol(?) dining chairs in a long ago @JaneJones dining table post.
Perhaps he should do what Stuart is currently doing - he’s had a really busy day digging holes, setting posts and putting up grillage. His knees ‘are shot’ he says and his back is one step away from being broken. So he’s having a nice long soak in the bath to ease things. That’ll set him up for the night and he’ll have a hot water bottle on his knees when we sit down for the evening viewing. Tomorrow he’ll be as right as ninepence !
I’ve got several jobs lined up for him (hee hee)…..
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Yes Ercol. We like to mix it up, so kitchen will stay in 18thC and other rooms are a touch more contemporary. The challenge of getting a house built in 1750’s and then reworked around 1910. (And then abused in 1970s and 1990s - but all that is going)
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Same here, we’ve got a very ancient, long drawer dining table whose lower legs look implausibly worn, but were probably gnawed by rats (I’ve seen very similar results on a door jamb when we got an infestation a few years ago); by contrast, our rat-proof dining chairs are mixed pairs of English, French, German and American 1930s designs in steel or aluminium.
Apparently that is the “thing” here now in France where kitchens and furniture for other rooms are concerned, a lot of mixed styles and colours and not uniform suites. Son went to see a house a few weeks back, every kitchen cupboard was different in colour and style which actually put him off but the owners were very much into the new look
I loathe everything matchy matchy but total mismatch can be jarring so isn’t agreeable either, so you need some sort of unifying theme - and one person’s eclectic collection is someone else’s rats’ nest 
rooms evolve over time though so it would feel weird to have everything of the same period.
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I have always had a problem with ‘beige’ and ‘The Good Life’ stripped faux pine furniture (knotty pine stuff and pretend exposed applique beams.
Also:
Wall to wall carpet
Carpet in a wc???…Bah…
and whilst I am venting whilst my tea is brewing:
Light metallic brown Volvo’s (random I know) and made worse with a Cold Play CD stuck and repeating the same whining song.
( Now, where is that psychologist… and sorry if this offends anyone ….it’s just my recurring nightmare in a nutshell)..
Ugh nooooooo never
Any variety of brown for modern cars is bad, also orange or yellow, they can get away with it if they are vintage cars
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Is this really a new “thing” ??? or simply that the owners decorated with whatever paint they had available 