Queen's not so cosy home - do you have any clothes that match your furnishings?

oh yes Baubles you are probably not alone in this.
I once moved into a house that had been done out all over in a Laura Ashley green print with little white flowers, including walls, curtains and the ceiling of the main bedroom.

I've still got Laura Ashley paper in bedroom4 which we put up in 1981. I can't bear to change it - it was DD3's nursery. It was obviously made to last!

Wasn't it an old Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders sketch where a husband returns home and can't find his wife in the living room because her Laura Ashley dress matches all the soft furnishings?

my favourite is the coat of arms hearth rug..might start making one for me and DH.. what will ours look like!

You always had to be careful with Laura Ashley

I used to have a long green brocade Per Una skirt that always made me feel like Scarlett O'Hara dressed up in the green curtains.

Not to mention looking like the children from The Sound of Music?

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My sister-in-law has no dress sense yet makes all her own clothes, apparently from old curtains. Not a good look.

Actually I think her latest skirt looks more like a lampshade.

It's the tassels that do it.

It does look like a second hand shop, doesn't it? A very boring one too.

And it also looks very uncomfortable - nowhere to lie back with your feet up. How sad to be so rich, yet cold and uncomfortable, and to sit in such an inhospitable room.

Surely this is a public room, however hideous, not the private put-your-feet-up and lie back one.

Absent - respect on the trouser making. I have a treasured photograph of me, my two sisters, and my oldest daughter, then aged about 6, all wearing long Laura Ashley frocks, in clashing prints, all with long flowing hair. It's a real time frame. I loved the photograph of Queenie, looking like I often feel - just go home will you! Her cluttered room, expensive antiques next to what look like stuff I try (and fail) to leave in charity shops or at car boot sales. We stayed in an old manor house with a big group of friends recently - the furnishings were strikingly similar to those in this photograph. An overwhelming collection of mis matched pieces - fabulous.

I do not believe the queen's Balmoral rooms, public or private, are insufficiently heated. That wee heater is, as I said earlier, for extra heat, on top of the central heating. And it's only there because it's less messy (and she can even plug it in and switch it on herself) than having a coal fire in that fireplace.

Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to spend a winter in an old house in the highlands.

I have recently worn out, after wearing them solidly for four or five years, two pairs of trousers (baggy, naturally, and with huge pockets) I made from some curtains which had hung in my first Oxfordshire house for seven years and my second Oxfordshire house for almost eight years. Navy blue background and large, rather Jacobean florals. Lots of people said they liked them. Even people I didn't know. Young hippy types mainly who, after asking me where I got them and being told that they were my recycled curtains, said "Cool!"

Never did want to dress the same as everyone else.

Aren't aristocrats made of sterner stuff than us mere mortals bags ?
And one only has to look at the size of Buck House.... would one squander hundreds of ££ a years on keeping the servants warm?
Have to report that, according to one of the weekend paper supplements, kilts are bang on trend! Which just goes to prove that if you keep your clothes long enough they will come back into fashion again and again.

No. Don't be silly, jess. Besides, are you suggesting HM (or her housekeeper) is a mean employer and doesn't look after her employees properly?

That said, I expect you'd find my house cold. I'm not an aristocrat.

Have you ever even visited Scotland?

I'm also surprised at the 'classist' stereotyping coming from one who objects, quite rightly, to other kinds of injurious stereotyping. Just saying. Because I find it bloody irritating.

bags this is not meant to be a serious thread, hence the grin.
Also I don't think the aristocracy need anyone to spring to their defence do they?
She is obviously careful with her money otherwise she would have more expensive electric fires.

I would have thought they could have lit a coal fire.

Taking parsimony a bit too far. IMO.

That's probably not a huge room. I would think it is her own private sitting room. They were staying as personal guests. Very bad manners to get your i-phone out and snap a pic.

Well, your 'humour' in this thread still pisses me off, jess. You wouldn't let someone making sexist stereotype 'jokes' off the hook, would you? No difference, really. One rule of behaviour for all.

Indeed, jings, or even wood. But maybe it is a room that isn't used much.

Bet they have North Sea gas central heating though. More efficient than coal fires.

We've got one of those heaters in our living room. I whack it on for an hour in the morning just to take the chill off. No point in lighting the woodburner or switching on expensive central heating until absolutely necessary.

Nice to know I'm up there with the aristocracy

We have one exactly like it too, merlot. I use it when I can't sleep and come down to read during cold nights.

Sorry about that bags - Gn gets a bit serious sometimes and I suppose my feeble attempts to add a bit of lighthearted nonsense cannot please everyone. Thank you for the tweet by the way.
She could probably afford to treat herself to a fancier fire
e.g.
www.gr8fires.co.uk/dimplex-living-art-remote