Domestic

[caddyman]

On Saturday we bought a small second hand sideboard. We went to the British Heart Foundation shop in town to look primarily at sofas. Luckily there were none there we liked; I think I might have put Furtle off with thoughts of some poor plum sitting slumped and dead on one undiscovered for weeks before being scraped off the sofa and it being rinsed out for re-sale.

That apart, there was a fair amount of other furniture there, including a splendidly hideous sideboard that looks as though it was the height of décor fashion somewhere between 1920 and 1935. Hideous it may be (particularly the handles. I am going to have to replace the handles. No, really), but it is solid and made of wood. In short, it is solid. It is also that sort of furnishing horror that is quite pleasing for no obvious reason. You look at it and it ticks all the wrong aesthetic boxes and is yet a nice piece of furniture.

It is the wooden cupboard equivalent of Bertie’s Aunt Agatha: stern, solid and rather intimidating (though compact). Most importantly though it has a cupboard without a shelf. I am assured this is important and who am I to argue?

It is being delivered next Saturday morning. We may have to revisit some of the Christmas decorations when it arrives as we will have a surplus bookcase (surplus in the sense of nowhere to put it; as opposed to surplus because we have no books for it).

In other news, the Christmas tree and other seasonal decorations went up yesterday. The living room looks properly festive, but the shape of the room does mean that the tree is behind us rather than in front. That’s a shame, but we couldn’t think of any other way of doing it with the furniture we have. On the other hand, we have garlanded Superman’s shelf with cherry-coloured lights that look very warm and cosy.

Still no sign of my copy of World of Warcraft: Cartaclysm. It’s very annoying and not what I imagined the concept of “pre-order” to mean.

Comments

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

"Still no sign of my copy of World of Warcraft: Cartaclysm. It’s very annoying and not what I imagined the concept of “pre-order” to mean."

Not that i condone online games but you can even get it at the garage I just filled up at - your pre-order is clearly rubbish !

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

In those days, such items of furniture included "a cupboard without a shelf" to contain the candlestick telephone, though the squat-shaped 'phones were replacing them by that time. I can only surmise that the devices were considered ugly, and jolly noisy when they rang/buzzed, so they were best kept out of sight when not in use.

On the other hand, if it was clearly intended to contain a shelf, as you can see the brackets in there, then I'm talking out of my bottom. Ho-hum.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

We want it for Booooooooooooooze.

[agentinfinity.livejournal.com]

An M&S sale seem to be quite a good place to get a cheap, half decent sofa, though obviously you need a big one wot does furniture.

We found this information out after we bought our sofa from elsewhere. Hmmph.

I wish we had more space to put furniture in, as charity shops and the like seem to be full of excellent first-half-of-the 20th century furniture which for some reason is not in fashion (possibly because it's not quite bland enough for modern tastes).