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Display Name: bonnington
Personal URL: http://www.lucyleonard.co.uk
Member Since: 4/16/07

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I love the crocodile pillow in the child's room.


Apartment Therapy - #13 - Dldawson's Ever Changing Moods
10/11/07 9:15 AM

We switched from a Dualit to a Rowlett and are very pleased with it. We've got the Espirit Brunch model, and switched mainly because we found one cheap at the market and liked the styling. It also has a great toast-ready 'ping' which our Dualit didn't have. The Premier range look good too and are rectilinear so should save on counter space over the curvier models.

http://www.rowlettrutland.co.uk/images/products/large/esprit_brunch.jpg
http://www.rowlettrutland.co.uk/retail/rowletttoasters_premier.html


Top 10: Toasters
7/31/07 2:41 PM

I've grown Camomile between slabs and although it looks great when the weather is mild or warm it looks scrappy in winter and high summer. I'd go with mother-of-thyme, it's a really low growing creeping thyme with lovely tiny glossy leaves and looks great all year round.


Good Questions: What Should I Do With this Outdoor Floor?
7/24/07 12:55 PM

I don't think finding the perfect chair is going to be the solution for this room. I would put the chairs on hold and rethink the rug. I would go for something larger and with a bit of pattern or history to give some life to the room. I would also bring your personal belongings into the room and make design decisions based on the important personal stuff that you want to include otherwise it is prone to become a bit of a 'tv shrine' that could belong to anyone.


Good Questions: Got Chairs For Me?
7/23/07 12:49 PM

I would keep the dresser as it is but definitely repaint the walls. For me the cool blue is fighting with the warm tones of the wood. I recommend Cooking Apple Green from Farrow and Ball. It is a really mellow warm green with a hint of grey, see http://www.farrow-ball.com I've used this colour in the bedroom and I'm pleased with how it ties together (and seems to simplify) the various rich tones of our oak and walnut dressers. I also think you need to dress the dresser with your things, it'll reduce the mass of heavy wood on show and make it your territory rather than something of his that you just put up with.


Good Questions: Save This Room, Save My Marriage?
7/20/07 2:17 PM

I agree with Marco and Josie, with this ban AT risks losing its critical edge. I have enjoyed (although often disagreed with) Mr Green's tongue-in-cheek, provocative comments and because he is sometimes very blunt these comments have necessarily been responded to and balanced by impassioned and interesting discussion from other AT users. Reading back through his comments I'm surprised that they warrant this expulsion.


AT on: Commenters and Banning
7/17/07 3:26 PM

I've been trying to grow artichokes for a couple of years but every time the plants get to about a foot in diameter something nibbles all the stalks off leaving the leaves scattered around the pot. Because of past history I'm thinking it's got to be the squirrels but I haven't caught them at it yet. Why do they do this, destroying plants apparently without reason? It can't be just to spite me but it sometimes feels that way...


PlantTherapy: The Showdown
6/30/07 2:09 PM

Wow, who would have thought rubbish was such a hot topic. I just want to add how much I love my very cheap roll-top bin from addis. Here in the UK brabantia seem to have (a very expensive) strangle-hold on the dustbin market, but I think roll tops are much better as there is no fiddly pedal action or flip top flicking back and catching your fingers.

http://www.addis.co.uk/product_detail.php?product_id=43

The top rolls back and stays there so that when it's open it's totally open and easy to throw stuff into as you're cooking, and when it's closed it's totally closed keeping the rubbish out of sight. And the 24L version is the perfect size for lining with a plastic carrier bag, giving you the best of both worlds.


AT on: Plastic Garbage Bags on Door Knobs
6/27/07 2:27 PM

Mark Wigley takes the white wall discussion to a whole other level in 'White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture' critiquing the white wall itself as a kind of suppressive dressing rather than a neutral expression of form. There is a much better summary if you take a look inside the book on amazon, here's the link: http://tinyurl.com/2wlpr7


ColorTherapy: A High Modernist Debate
6/12/07 1:53 PM

I think the word Gotham Tomato was thinking of is pebbledashing, but I can think of another less polite one!

Telly are you sure you want to live with this finish? I'm all for exposed aggregate concrete for floors and pavements, but applied as a surface finish over an existing structure pebbledashing can look like you're trying to hide something nasty (maybe this is just a British hangup, but here people are ripping it out not putting it in). Having said that I loved Michael Landy's eerie pebbledashed house in Tate Britain last year:
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/exh_gfx_en/ART23026.html


Good Questions: How To Create a Pebbly Surface?
5/14/07 12:50 PM

I've tried various methods to get rid of moths and the pheromone traps seem to work far better than moth balls. They use a lure that smells of the female moth to trap the males onto a sticky card. This way the moths don't mate so there are no little moth lavae eating your clothes.

Freezing clothes that may already have eggs/lavae in them is also supposed to help kill them off. You can also use dry bay leaves packed in with your clothes instead of moth balls - they smell much better and are supposed to keep the moths away.


Good Questions: Are The Tiny Holes in My Shirts from Moths?
5/9/07 1:21 PM