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bepsf "You mean the way cars that are no longer new were "Used" - now they're "Pre-Owned"...

...and the way people of a certain age-range were "Elderly" or just plain "Old" - and now they're "Seniors"?"

I guess so - also it is odd seeing furniture and designs I rejected as a twenty year old as "naff" suddenly becoming fashionable. 1920 - 1960 is for me "vintage", although I do admire some James Bond-type 70s design.

I read somewhere that you gravitate more to designs about ten years before you are born, so skipping a generation.

Beth's dressing table - early 60's Heals, looks quite beautiful to me for example.

Anyway, I am so glad those fitted seventies carpets aren't back in fashion.

nice ikea desk set up.

It must be a lovely calm house to live in.

Not meant personally and particularly, but I am so fed up of vintage as a term for seventies tat. Maybe showing my age, but any old rubbish is now "vintage" regardless of design or quality. Definitely showing my age, and remembering all that vintage student bedsit furniture I failed to appreciate...

oh, and what is the kitchen colour - the grey. They are calm warm colours. Quite a feat to achieve that!

And if you don't mind, I was interested to see you remake antique lamps. I have a couple, but the fittings on both (the bit the bulb slots into) have broken. Do you ever have to replace this bit - do modern fittings work?

Sienna Miller's step-mother is British designer Kelly Hoppen - so I am a bit dissappointed in her house. The bath is great but not all those cushions around it - ech

Jeannec - thanks for the link - I might make it over.

Do you have tips on what are the other good Paris flea markets?

just shows how much of now has been copied from then.

Hi

I am in Edinburgh, UK and signed up at the beginning of this spring cure. I don't think I will be following the cure strictly, but trying to accomplish most things over the period. I am planning my end-of-cure tea party - otherwise there is no incentive. So far I haven't done too much (guilt).

I need to seriously declutter and deep clean, make a list of repairs and do the most pressing, and concentrate on one area, which I think will be the hall (landing strip).

The house is a ground floor and basement flat with a walled garden. It is a great house, but a little impractical in the layout - sitting room upstairs and kitchen downstairs.

The cure makes a lot of sense to me - I bought the book two years ago but haven't felt able to start until now as everything seemed too much (a long period of illness).

I hope to post pictures once I work out how. I have a lots of magazines and links to pictures of homes I like gathered.

First small purchase will be a shaker peg rail. A bit twee, but nice. Heals had a lovely pure wooden one but don't seem to be selling them any longer, so I am looking at this:

http://www.jonathanavery.co.uk/accessories/shakerpegrail.html

I am sure one of these will cure all my clutter problems :)

I admire your ingenuity, but the peopel ones seem a bit creepy to me...