doubtfulguest's Profile

I agree with Miss Heliotrope and others above. It is wrong to call these people 'gypsies'. They are New Age travellers and are not a distinct ethnic group. 'Gypsies' generally refers to English Romanies and Roma. There are also Irish, Scottish and Welsh travellers which are separate ethnic groups with different historical roots. I find it quite wrong that adopting some of the traditions of another ethnic group should somehow mean that you can label yourself as one of them. A white person who mimics Native American practices does not become entitled to call themselves a member of a Native American tribe.

I've taken the sleeper to London a couple of times and it's great. It's two bunks per compartment though so if you're travelling alone then you usually have to share with a stranger which can be mildly disconcerting, depending on the stranger in question.

Quite a lot of minor Royals live there too. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, Prince Harry, Zara Phillips. It's not as if they'll have the place to themselves.

A couple of these chairs with a small table between them ? Definitely NOT a church pew; they are very cliched.

http://www.westelm.com/products/sweep-arm-leather-chair-g177/?pkey=cchairs-ottomans-benches

I love the sideboard and I love the chairs. I think he's right to switch to a round table in that space but he picked the wrong round table. It's really heavy and clunky looking.

The large print of the alligator is beautiful and really striking. But it costs nearly $2000 ! For a print for a kid's room ?
I don't mean to sound like a philistine but is that really what people pay for a photograph these days ? Especially since the smaller prints are open edition.
The little postcard-size ones aren't nearly so visually arresting. You can buy similar postcards in every zoo giftshop.

I dream of whole walls of bookshelves but these don't really do it for me. They seem too higgledy-piggledy and the books stacked up on their sides is a particular bugbear of mine. How do you easily access the ones of the bottom of the stack if there's half a dozen heavy coffee table books on top of it.

That ugly sofa costs over $9000.

I suspect I could find something a little nicer for that amount of money.

I would place a largish rectangular dining table in front of the windows, with backless benches on either side that can tuck under the table when not in use or that can be used to sit facing into the room.
Sofa slightly out from the wall facing the fireplace. Armchair in the corner next to the fireplace angled towards the sofa.

*short not sort