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Nath
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Originally posted by LETGSI16V
Am I the only one that thinks it looks 'modernised' and by that I mean every bloody room is the same sodding colour.

That's what pisses me off about modern interior design. It's all about painting every sodding wall a neutral colour. It's boring design for boring people.

I pray you furnish it with some personality as the place doesn't have any.


What do you expect exactly? Painting in anything other than magnolia is going to put someone off sothey keep it plain. If you want stunning decoration you do it to your own taste. The developer will never go out on a limb to impress anyone as all they'll end up doing is putting someone off.

[Edited on 30-03-2010 by AndyKent]


Exactly. You dont buy a house based on decor.
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cheers for the input guys,
yes the woman in the pic is my mrs,
the walls we are leaving as they are for now s covered under the builders garantee.
we've got some solid oak stuff coming, dining table, tv unit and sidboard, got the corner sofa sitting in my dining room at the min ready to go, also got the usual stuff from ikea for the bedrooms, and loads of electrical goodies and the boring cooking stuff coming from john lewis (got a large sum of vouchers for our engagement )

[Edited on 29-03-2010 by Tomnova16]


Make sure you take the developer to school with any snags and if anything is out of place make use of the NHBC in the first two years. After that its just worthless tbh.

Do you know what the service charges are like?
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yep, but cant remember so many figures flying round, think its around £75 a month
i have already told them about a mark in the paint by the front door and a few gaps around door frames, when we move in we will make a list and send it to them, obviously any other faults later on we will also send over to them


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oh and its a 10 year nhbc garantee, but i see what you are saying mr fadster


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£210k? You guys even have it worse than us.
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who is your mortgage with i know santander wont touch self employed under 2 years trading
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That looks very nice Tom
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quote:
Originally posted by Nath
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Originally posted by AndyKent
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Originally posted by LETGSI16V
Am I the only one that thinks it looks 'modernised' and by that I mean every bloody room is the same sodding colour.

That's what pisses me off about modern interior design. It's all about painting every sodding wall a neutral colour. It's boring design for boring people.

I pray you furnish it with some personality as the place doesn't have any.


What do you expect exactly? Painting in anything other than magnolia is going to put someone off sothey keep it plain. If you want stunning decoration you do it to your own taste. The developer will never go out on a limb to impress anyone as all they'll end up doing is putting someone off.

[Edited on 30-03-2010 by AndyKent]


Exactly. You dont buy a house based on decor.


Well done Nathaniel, you have just agreed with the point you have quoted whilst also totally contradicting it. People DO buy for decor, I am not saying everyone does (I certainly don't), but people do buy for decor as they lack any imagination themselves and as the old saying goes 'first impressions count!' It is that reason why developers who lack imagination themselves slap a bulk buy colour on every wall, in a property devoid of features and character, typically linked in with laminate flooring and decking. You know the sort, the ones you see on EVERY house program that hits the screens with the exception of Grand Designs.

You can inject some colour and life into a property without offending and in an undressed property, as above, it helps to draw the eye away from the lack of bonafide focal points.

Please note, I am not slating the guys imagination, or his pad, I am just giving my outlook.
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£210k? You guys even have it worse than us.


Feel sorry for me and Tom damn it
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tell me about it deano, could have a castle up north for the price of this
edd its with woolwich, my mrs had an account there from when she was young so got a good rate, santander were poo.
Get the keys tomorrow night, i feel like a kid at christmas

[Edited on 30-03-2010 by Tomnova16]


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Exciting times...did you specify cut outs in the ceilling voids to accomodate Steve?
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no steve walked in and did them himself


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Eight hours and counting
Got all my furniture being delivered at 7:30 too, i do like to cut it fine

[Edited on 31-03-2010 by Tomnova16]


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Originally posted by LETGSI16V

Well done Nathaniel, you have just agreed with the point you have quoted whilst also totally contradicting it.


dickhead

[Edited on 31-03-2010 by Nath]
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Well done Nathaniel, you have just agreed with the point you have quoted whilst also totally contradicting it. People DO buy for decor, I am not saying everyone does (I certainly don't), but people do buy for decor as they lack any imagination themselves and as the old saying goes 'first impressions count!' It is that reason why developers who lack imagination themselves slap a bulk buy colour on every wall, in a property devoid of features and character, typically linked in with laminate flooring and decking. You know the sort, the ones you see on EVERY house program that hits the screens with the exception of Grand Designs.

You can inject some colour and life into a property without offending and in an undressed property, as above, it helps to draw the eye away from the lack of bonafide focal points.

Please note, I am not slating the guys imagination, or his pad, I am just giving my outlook.


I'm not quite sure what you're saying tbh. You get why they do it but wish they wouldn't?

In any case, when buying a new property people want something clean and tidy. Generally, most people couldn't care less whether its magnolia or not. What they don't want to do is walk into a place and dislike anything. Anything other that what is 'popular' (ie. the cheap take on grand designs stuff) is going to be disliked by someone.

You walk into any development and, penthouses and premium property aside, it will be magnolia for a very good reason.
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He does it all the time in Match Day. He's a strange one.
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I'd buy a house that decorated like the one above everything over something that was all painted in colours I might not like.

Bold colours will put a lot more folk off than magnolia etc. Plus folk want to put there own stamp on a place. If the main is painted in bright red imagine how hard it would be to change. That alone would put a lot of people off.
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Looks very nice, can't believe they put a light up in the kitchen like that these days!
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i'd buy a place that was all magnolia as it's a clean base and allows me to put my own touch on it.

it's alot easier to imagine things when there are no distracting vibrant colours everywhere with a minimalist layout.
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Got the dining table, chairs, tv unit, sideboard and all the boring stuff, pots and pans etc, all in starting to look really nice, forgot to take any pics but will get some up tomorrow


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Looks ace Tom. Congrats
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Looks nice Tom, ideal 1st home......Enjoy it!!!
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Nice to be in the flat now, had loads of people come over all weekend so a bit of a party flat
Its all pretty much done now though, sky is coming tomorrow along with broadband, so annoying not having broadband at home
Anyway pics


She's still in the kitchen

Got to get a cable cover, bit pissed at the height of the sockets but hey ho


Getting another single wardrobe wit a a mirror front on it to fill the space



New clock in the kitchen too



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thumbs tom thumbs
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looking good matey. i like this..

as for the mrs' in the kitchen.. "leave her be" as I've always been told

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