Are you moving house?

Exciting Sago

And tanith
I hope you find a house soon.

We finally have a date 21st March🎉🎉🎉🎉.

The packing continues, just praying there are no hitches🙏.

shoppinggirl

It makes me cringe when I see a beautiful mahogany chest of drawers or a mahogany sideboard sanded and painted. One day, people will regret they ever did this as they've destroyed a wonderful piece of furniture. Just my humble opinion of course!

Or they won't regret their choice because it pleases them. We're delighted with all the furniture we've painted, suits our family room and playroom spaces well.

Congratulations Monica what a relief for you. I'm under offer too but a shock this morning i glanced out the window and they putting sold sign up. It really brought it home that I'm actually doing this. Just got to find a house I'm really hoping that perfect house comes back on the market as they've said i have first refusal.

Fantastic news M0nica 👏
I imagine a great relief. I hope the sale is smooth.

I viewed another sweet little bungalow yesterday although I noticed there's a closing date tomorrow.
It's been on the market for 2 weeks!
The couple are very keen for a quick sale. I explained that I am not in a position to bid yet but will submit a note of interest incase the sale falls through. I have done this.

I viewed with a friend who thinks it would be too small for me and she's
probably right. I need space for visiting family, a breakfasting kitchen, a craft room and plenty of cupboards. Oh and 2 loos! It had none of those things.

shoppinggirl

It makes me cringe when I see a beautiful mahogany chest of drawers or a mahogany sideboard sanded and painted. One day, people will regret they ever did this as they've destroyed a wonderful piece of furniture. Just my humble opinion of course!

I do agree and I wouldn't do that myself but better than it being smashed up as firewood!
Luckily, a local charity shop was happy to take it as they have a nearby shop which specialises in furniture - and it matched a wardrobe they had already.

At last, after one year and 2 months we are under offer. When it came to the end we had 3 people desperate to buy the house, but all with houses to sell. Today the first one crossed the line with a sale of their house to a first time buyer, needing only a small mortgage. What a relief.

Two weeks too late for the house we have been waiting a year and 2 months to be able to buy and with little else on the market that meets our needs and wants.

At the same time DD's year long plod to buy the house of her dreams is reaching the end ofthe road. She exchanged contracts yesterday and completes and moves in next Wednesday.

A lot can go wrong still, but ti is a start.

It makes me cringe when I see a beautiful mahogany chest of drawers or a mahogany sideboard sanded and painted. One day, people will regret they ever did this as they've destroyed a wonderful piece of furniture. Just my humble opinion of course!

M0nica

Norah

Our home has brown furniture. Fashionable or not, it was my grandparents and great grandparents. Boring NeoClassical - Hepplewhite and Sheraton. Plus nice Ercol purchased for a song, painted white.

We're without style and nobody cares a bit.

Actually Norah, although you may not think of yourself as fashionable, your style is one people respond to very positively.

It sounds very similar to ours. and, as you know, our house is for sale at the moment, and viewers, always tell the estate agent what a lovely house we have, referring to its presentation.

We went to look at another potential house purchase last week and the young man showing us round, said he had been surprised we were looking at this particular house as a down sizer, then in a sudden rush he said once he had seen the house we were selling and how beautiful it was inside, he understood why we were viewing the house we were standing in.

I do not say this from any sense of self congratulation, I am as puzzled as anyone, but it shows that younger people, actually like houses with brown furniture, but they know so little about it, and have only ever experienced buying new furniture, so they do not know where to begin. One potential buyer as actually asked us whether we would be prepared to sell any of of our (brown) furniture with the house!

Our home is quite old (my grandparents and great grandparents) extended, modernized. Old brown furniture of the slim variety, suits our old home well. As does old brown furniture painted white. We like what we like, I don't know what others think - haven't asked. We're not typically on trend or stylish.

Must admit I don’t like/appreciate brown furniture give me light and modern any day. As they say good job we’re all different in our likes and dislikes.

Allira well, precisiely

barleyfields I am not casting any aspersions on other peoples taste in decor, I am just amused that with brown furniture at auction valued only at fiewood levels, so many people seem to find houses with brown furniture so attractive and comfortable, a word used a lot.

Our house is merely an old house with a lot of old furniture, books and pictures on all the walls. - and a big squashy sofa in front of the wood-burning stove.

It's a bit like clothes, as we get older we go for comfort!

I sold some furniture recently on Facebook marketplace. One young couple, furnishing a mid century house got very excited to discover that the wing armchair grandad's was actually designed by an Italian who worked for Ercol.
I never liked the chair so was delighted that it was going to an appreciative home.

Well, we've got brown furniture (not antique but retro!) in a fairly modern house but I don't care what anyone else thinks because we like it.

Brown furniture suits old houses MOnica, and yours is very old. On the other hand, modern furniture can also look good in old houses - my son’s house is C15 and he has a mix of old and new pieces which blend beautifully. I have a contemporary house and although I have a couple of pieces of inherited brown furniture, which I keep as they are of sentimental value, they really don’t suit it.

Norah

Our home has brown furniture. Fashionable or not, it was my grandparents and great grandparents. Boring NeoClassical - Hepplewhite and Sheraton. Plus nice Ercol purchased for a song, painted white.

We're without style and nobody cares a bit.

Actually Norah, although you may not think of yourself as fashionable, your style is one people respond to very positively.

It sounds very similar to ours. and, as you know, our house is for sale at the moment, and viewers, always tell the estate agent what a lovely house we have, referring to its presentation.

We went to look at another potential house purchase last week and the young man showing us round, said he had been surprised we were looking at this particular house as a down sizer, then in a sudden rush he said once he had seen the house we were selling and how beautiful it was inside, he understood why we were viewing the house we were standing in.

I do not say this from any sense of self congratulation, I am as puzzled as anyone, but it shows that younger people, actually like houses with brown furniture, but they know so little about it, and have only ever experienced buying new furniture, so they do not know where to begin. One potential buyer as actually asked us whether we would be prepared to sell any of of our (brown) furniture with the house!

I have 2 small ercol armchairs. A previous owner painted them white and recovered the seats in floral fabric. The pirelli webbing has perished. I don't find them very comfy or pretty. Any takers? 🤣😅

Our home has brown furniture. Fashionable or not, it was my grandparents and great grandparents. Boring NeoClassical - Hepplewhite and Sheraton. Plus nice Ercol purchased for a song, painted white.

We're without style and nobody cares a bit.

Mid century Danish furniture is very much on trend and anything by Robin Day or Hille.

Oh no! Ercol is not passé as well, is it?

I'd love a very small Ercol table and chairs for the kitchen if only I could find a set!

I'm never on trend. 😁

Sago I am beginning to think Mid-century Modern has had its day as well.

We bought an elm Ercol dining table and chairs about 5 years ago. I was looking up the current value of them because we will probably need to sell them when we move and was shocked to discover how far the price of them had fallen

Sago

Allira

I like my "brown furniture" but even the upcycling place didn't want a good chest of drawers (or chester draws as I've seen on the local FB page ) because they were mahogany. 😁 They renovate and resell furniture, so what was wrong with chalk painting them or similar?
Shabby chic or whatever is on trend.

Shabby chic is old hat now.
Mid century is in!
We have sold most of our furniture with the house, just sent some art to the auctioneers.

Oh, I must get with it! 😁

Some of ours is mid-century teak.

It would be terrible to start scrapping the mahogany sideboard or Rosewood bookcase.
I guarantee that they will be appreciated again some day.

I have an enormous Victorian, mahogany wardrobe which takes up an entire bedroom wall. We inherited it in our last house. It houses clothes and linen in its vast drawers and cupboards. I am tempted to take it with me when I move, as any new replacement will be far more flimsy.

Allira

I like my "brown furniture" but even the upcycling place didn't want a good chest of drawers (or chester draws as I've seen on the local FB page ) because they were mahogany. 😁 They renovate and resell furniture, so what was wrong with chalk painting them or similar?
Shabby chic or whatever is on trend.

Shabby chic is old hat now.
Mid century is in!
We have sold most of our furniture with the house, just sent some art to the auctioneers.

I like my "brown furniture" but even the upcycling place didn't want a good chest of drawers (or chester draws as I've seen on the local FB page ) because they were mahogany. 😁 They renovate and resell furniture, so what was wrong with chalk painting them or similar?
Shabby chic or whatever is on trend.

The bottom fell out of the brown furniture market about 20 years ago. We hve drastically reduced the value of our house contents insurance because items of furniture, which were valued at £400-500 at the beginning of the century are now only worth double figure prices.

I am not bothered, we bought very little of it, mostly inherited, but I did buy a set of chairs for £300 in 1998 - and sold them for £30 in 2021.