h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

it has potential cerntainly...

Indeed.

the colours sound good, stealthy man

how's life in your own place going?

"I'm sure your parents light brown and floral paper is very nice not at all like my parents wallpaper"

MCF, you're overestimating my sense of taste there. The wallpaper is in my house, not my parents'. Although, strictly, it's my landlady's house, so I didn't actually choose the decor. Everyone who visits us has a good laugh at what they call our "seventies timewarp" house, but we quite like it.

I'm comfortable there.

I'm doing my best to de-seventies my flat, where it doesn't serve my needs at least.

retro kitsch (70's) is back in flared trousers and loud colours, tie dyed and paisley

Sounds like an awful lot of colours in a small space IMHO. You'll be vey restricted as to what furniture, paintings, prints etc. you can use. And grey and purple could be very depressing to live with

I did up my sitting room, kitchen & hallway last year, and the interior designer son of a friend came and gave me advice. The sittingroom faces north, and always felt a bit cold, so he advised a colour called Smock which is a lovely pale warm beigey-yellow (the colour on the Crown colour pdf is completely unlike the actual colour!). For the kitchen and hallway he chose a slightly lighter shade of the same paint, and all woodwork, ceilings etc. snow white. It still looks really warm, and the white woodwork provides a really crisp contrast. Hang on, I'll take a few piccies.

Done, and uploaded to http://fizzx.com/index.html

The colours have come out more beigey than they are in real life. But the effect is very warm and soft.

http://www.crownpaints.co.uk/expcolour/create/index.html

http://www.dulux.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/OurRangeView?storeId=10752&catalogId=10051&langId=-1

PS -
"But the effect is very warm and soft."

I meant *in real life* the colours are very warm. Also, very easy to put other colours with, dark reds, blues, greens etc..

Aren't you impressed with how tidy I am? Those were the only corners of the two rooms that I could photograph, the rest was even untidier

I love those cushions on your sofa! And the plant looks very happy too!

Terri

Yeah, you've got a very nice corner of a living room there, Hel. I could feel very at home in such a place.

Good to see you, Terri.

Not Hel. RunningDog3. I really should pay more attention to whom I'm talking to.

"And grey and purple could be very depressing to live with"

Yeah, my ex-fiancé's bedroom was painted purple and when I stayed there I found that quite 'oppressive'/depressing.
And I decided the grey I was original thinking of using for bedroom ran the same risk...
What I'm hoping is that the dramatic contrast of the rich purple on one wall against the much lighter grey will give it more 'energy' so it won't become depressing... besides I like greys, though of course grey walls aren't the same as grey shirts!

"Sounds like an awful lot of colours in a small space IMHO"

Maybe. I don't know anything about home decorating or interior design... That's why I started this thread looking for advice...
I guess my desire to give each room it's own personality or achieve something different with each one out weighed any concerns about that...
I knew I didn't want the place to be pales or, lifeless magnolia or an offensive shade of beige... I'd just find that depressing.

"You'll be vey restricted as to what furniture, paintings, prints etc. you can use."

I bought what I think is a cool painting of skulls in the desert with mountains in the distance that I think will work really well on the wall of the living room. I have few other things I might put up on the walls, but mostly I don't want to clutter the walls with pictures...

I may be buying a black leather two-seater sofa from Argos for the living room if I can't get one I like from Furniture Now who do very, very cheap second-hand stuff for people on benefits... I already got some black coffee table and a black computer desk; as I decided not tp take this one... although this one is sturdier.
So I don't think I'll feel very limited, at least certainly not beyond my personal tastes...

I'm hoping to get a king-size bed frame from them on Tuesday, now that's pine, but I don't think it will be that big of clash with the grey and it'll be on the far side from the purple wall. I was originally thinking of a kinda art deco metal frame, but the king-size these guys have is a fifth of the price, which means I can spend what I save on that getting a really good mattress...

"the white woodwork provides a really crisp contrast"
I'm hoping the white will do that in my flat, and not look awful...


The colour and furnishing certainly do all conspire to give the room the warm, cosy and welcoming feel...

tee hee - after I posted the pics I noticed the Argos catalogue visible on the coffee table.

Where would we be without Argos

I'd be exactly where I am. I've never bought anything from them before in my life... and still may not.

On another subject, briefly, how are you finding getting to grips with the site?
It seems you've wandered over to hootoo from POV. That means I can't post to your space...
It also appears you've posted a couple times to your message centre rather than publishing journals, which is a mistake that almost everyone seems to make at some point, not just when they're still finding their feet... Anyway I used to be an ACE here, [ACEs basicly are helpers out with community side of h2g2, here to greet new members, give them tips and advice and what have you] so let me know if anything's still leaving you confuzzled about how it works on hootoo.

Odd, I've been a member of h2g2 for quite awhile - when I registered, I didn't have to fill in all my details as they were just copied over from my POV membership. Just got a similar message this morning in my message space from an ACE - a 'welcome', followed by a message that I didn't seem to be a member

Don't know what to do about it.

Ackshelly, I was thinking about your colour scheme early this morning**
For some reason I thought you were female (like most people think I'm a male), until I saw your post about the skull painting. What struck me was that ALL the colours you're talking about (grey, purple, white) have nothing to do with anything organic or natural. I don't know much (try 'anything') about the psychology of colour, but common sense says that your current choices mean that you'll be surrounding yourself with dead colours and images of death Black, white, purple, silver, skulls. Particularly if you live in a city (which I'm guessing you do since you talk about moving into an apartment), that means that all day every day you'll have nothing to do with 'life' around you (apart from people in the street, of course). That seems really unhealthy, to me. We need colours. We evolved in jungles. That's my feeling, anyway!

(woken up at 6.45 on a Sunday morning by some bastard sitting outside a nearby house doing double-toots on his effing horn every 2 to 3 minutes, for almost half an hour Every time I'd start drifting back to sleep he'd toot again Regret now that I didn't get up and take his reg number )

"your current choices mean that you'll be surrounding yourself with dead colours and images of death"

Yup, that's the Vander we know and love.

Ah... Because the post to your space were quite recent I made the assumption that you'd only recently joined hootoo.
As you know I got in touch with some of the ACE.


I do live in an urban area. Have done for the last two years. And I am starting to miss all the greens of the countryside. Although I go out to the sticks when I visit my mother, I don't really go down to the fields, woods and river like I think I should in the interveening days...
I do sit and look at the green in the parks some days...
I think the red and purple will be quite energetic colours... I think the bone and the eastern glow are fairly natural... So I'm sure they are completely 'dead'... And the colour in the hallway has a hint of green too.
I find skulls can be comforting, and I really do like that painting... And it's skulls in a natural landscape.

I've been thinking of getting some house plants as it goes too...

I like magnolia. It's comforting.

I have problems with change from fixed routine, thouigh, and I've always lived in houses with much magnolia. Change scares me.

What is the Magnolia colour like? Sofly pinkish cream? Yellowish white? Palest of lilacs?

Milla

We have pale yellow and cream throughout the house.