James - Telegraph part II

[ladyshaniique08]

I'm getting my copy of the Daily Telegraph later and I can't scan it as I don't have one. But hey, I'm gonna be happy reading!

[dutchdiva]

Scanning it in as we speak

[dutchdiva]

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[dutchdiva]

I have to say that this column is very interesting and I think I will comment on this one again (after that last time was about 3 months ago) I did spend a lot of time on this Porsche Car Configurator a few weeks ago (on a very boring Friay evening) and it is so much fun. I try to came up with most horrible looking car and then watch how expensive it was.

[maureen]

I see a novel going James' way. It's got me thinking of all the interior design projects I've done with rooms of mine since I was a teen. Only difference when I was a teen - my parents wouldn't let me paint my room black.

[emmap]

I wanted my room painted black as well, sadly it was not meant to be James house sounds interesting ;D

[ladyshaniique08]

I want to paint my room pink as it's my favourite colour. When I was living in Crystal Palace, my dad painted green and I hated it.

[maureen]

Hi MD.

Yeah, all my goth decorations clashed audibly with the pink my room was originally painted in before we moved in, which my parents didn't want me to change. Needless to say, I was in a bad mood most of the time then. I love the way James described his interior design. It sounds so cool and hippy. I love that sort of stuff.

[maureen]

Shani,

I had a green room when I was little and didn't like it either. By the time we moved, we'd wall papered it with butterfly wallpaper. I would've gladly traded you the pink bedroom I had in my teens. It came with bookshelves though, so I would've had to keep those.

[emmap]

My mother insisted that I have a pink room!!! I hated it thing was though she let my brother have the black room when he was in his teens! James house sounds like mine actually, not one thing matches come to think of it;D It used too, then I had the kids and all that went a bit pear shaped

[maureen]

That's me as well, MD. From all the moves we've made and all the kid things I have in my current house, it's more of a hodge-podge anymore. ;D I still have my hippy beads somewhere, that I'd like to dig out and hang between the kitchen and wash room. I best get going before Husband has a conniption fit.

[dutchdiva]

My room had every colour in the world. Now it is just white and dark blue

[maureen]

Dutch, thank you so much for scanning this. Blue is my favourite colour.

[emmap]

my house is definitely a blokes house... it has no girlie stuff anywhere...our bedroom is filled with TOH's model cars, planes and army stuff my books and thats it.

[beckstar]

Clearly James needs the new interior design kids on the block (Clarkson and Young Ltd) to come round and add some extra touches...

[emmap]

;D Clarkson and Young Interior Designs, for all you're matching needs

[astolatmaid]

Thanks for the scan Dutch - are you feeling better?

[dutchdiva]

Yes I am. Just my nose is not working with me yet.

[ulstermayniac]

Blue and black are my fave colours too. My bedroom has always been dark blue I find it relaxing. I can't relax or sleep as well in a room that isn't blue. It is still dark blue now.

[nobody]

I ask for a black room and told no but i only asked to make sure they would say yes to the room i wanted which was dark blue with star/suns and moons on it.
Now it just sky blue.

[Wyvern]

What a wonderful column. I feel my views on interior design are now completely vindicated. My living room has red carpets and cornicing and yellow walls, my dining room has red walls below the picture rail and a colour called 'spice' but it's really salmon pink above and I never did get around to changing the threadbare blue carpet in there. My hall and stairs are three shades of blue, inexpertly blended from dark at the top to light at the bottom and it all blends 'beautifully' with the royal blue stair carpet I had installed after only five years in the house. There's a big glass star lampshade above all that, and on the landing is a blue and orange rug in the shape of a ringed planet. I think I had a bit of a theme in mind with all that, but the theme turned out to be 'urban chaotic'

And I think I'm going to stop here, because I feel a potential response to Mr May coming on. As repetition is the death of art, I'll save it for the Telegraph

[maureen]

Dec 27, 2008 15:18:37 GMT @nobody said:

dark blue with star/suns and moons on it.
Now it just sky blue.

Oh, that sounds beautiful, Nobody. My youngest sister did that with her room when she was still in high school. I loved it.

[ulstermayniac]

Stars and, obviously, moons are fabbo!

[stigalicious]

Dec 27, 2008 9:21:16 GMT @dutchdiva said:

I have to say that this column is very interesting and I think I will comment on this one again (after that last time was about 3 months ago) I did spend a lot of time on this Porsche Car Configurator a few weeks ago (on a very boring Friay evening) and it is so much fun. I try to came up with most horrible looking car and then watch how expensive it was.

How utterly surreal; I was doing just this today! The Veyron one is good too; I'll post that to him!

Great column. From what I have seen of James' place I think it's a real reflection of the man himself. I am one of those sad bastards who likes to have things that match (well, a bit) and I don't think that extravagance and 'in yer face' suits cars alot of the time. Understated is what I like in a car. Thus I think his personal Porsche choices were grand!

[dutchdiva]

Dec 27, 2008 20:42:58 GMT @stigalicious said:

Dec 27, 2008 9:21:16 GMT @dutchdiva said:

I have to say that this column is very interesting and I think I will comment on this one again (after that last time was about 3 months ago) I did spend a lot of time on this Porsche Car Configurator a few weeks ago (on a very boring Friay evening) and it is so much fun. I try to came up with most horrible looking car and then watch how expensive it was.

How utterly surreal; I was doing just this today! The Veyron one is good too; I'll post that to him!

Great column. From what I have seen of James' place I think it's a real reflection of the man himself. I am one of those sad bastards who likes to have things that match (well, a bit) and I don't think that extravagance and 'in yer face' suits cars alot of the time. Understated is what I like in a car. Thus I think his personal Porsche choices were grand!

I already wrote my comment (I came up with something and wrote it down) and I also wrote about the Bugatti one ;D. I even ask him if he has ever looked at the one for the Tata Nano

[maureen]

I'm very excited about this one. YES!

I am in total agreement with this line from his article too: "If you don't like it, you don't have to come around." I use that one myself and I admire him even more for using it too.

[ladyshaniique08]

James has a polka-dot stool! How radical! Mojo, I would love the pink you'd when you was in your teens. James's house is pretty funky. A multi-coloured house is fun! He's surely likes colour except for pink which he hates. I'll teach him a lesson on the colours he hates.

[stigalicious]

He has good taste in mugs too!

I'm glad you thought of that too Nat. I think he would get many happy hours wasted away on that!!!!

[lymaze]

Good column as usual. I guess whatever suits people in their decor is all that matters. What I hate is people trying to be clever and different when it's obvious they're really a bit dull.

[astolatmaid]

My house is a cluttered mess of collected debris ( see Charity shop pictures and leopard) - and I love it!!