bedroom habits

[emmerson2]

I knew that would get your attention!

Anyway, this is one for the ladies, actually, cos I'm at a loss.

You may remeber some time ago Herself and I were discussing(?) the pros and cons of using sleeping bags at home.This came about because neither of us are particularly mobile now, and changing the duvet covers was a real pain in the back(litterally. Anyway, eventually, I won the argument, and Herself bought two beautiful, very expensive, Regency striped bags.They really are super, in cream and deep burgundy, nice and wide to cover a single bed.She fitted them with removable liners, and we've used them now for a week or so, and they really have cheered up the bedroom.

Still with me so far?

Today, she has bought two burgundy coloured silk bedspreads. Why? To cover the beautiful, very expensive Regency striped sleeping bags! Needless to say, the bedspreads also cost an arm and a leg!Why did she do it? Cos beds have to have bedspreads!

It's the same female logic which decreed that the matresses had to match, although they are never seen.

I sometimes despair of female logic.

Oh, and these bl**dy bedspreads are so slippery that they won't stay on the bl**dy bed!

 

[Northwood]

I've been married to mine for 37 years, man and boy, If you find the answers to your question let us know.

 

[Parksy]

Of course you will now need matching pillow cases which will make the curtains look odd.

After you've got the new curtains up the carpet will stick out like a sore thumb..............

 

[J.Lo]

When will you all learn,just let them get on with it. Its the only way you will get some peace. Last Oct my wife spent hundreds of pounds on two Tiffany lights,today she bought a light for twenty pounds because the Tiffany lights all too dull to read by. J.Lo

 

[LMH]

Good on Herself. Can't fault her.

Lisa x

 

[ValA.]

And don't forget, Mrs Emmerson will soon be wanting a whole pile of matching and toning cushions in cream, burgundy, burgundy and cream, cream and burgundy, patterned and plain, striped and flowered! The sole purpose of said cushions is to pile up in interesting patterns and arrangements, and then throw on the floor when you try to get into bed. They fill up the floor space, trip you up, and in the morning take hours of skilful rearranging into a different pile to the one you had this morning.

 

[ShadySadie]

No doubt careful positioning of some velcro tabs will keep the bed spreads in place.

Our sons duvet always looked as though it had been in a wrestling match by morning. As a teenager he would be wrapped in the cover and the duvet would be a lump at the bottom, or he would wake cold as the whole lot would be on the floor.

Velcro inside the covers edges and on both side of the duvet and tabs on the fitted sheets and under side of the quilt cover sorted him out.

Others laughed at our biking sleeping bags silk liners in November, so much nicer than man made techno fibres.

 

[Dave_374330759]

Just before Xmas we had a loft clearout - the table lamp and lampshade collection (22 of the former and 30 odd of the latter) were disposed of at the local tip. I have photo of some of the collection if you want to see them. The logic of collecting tablelamps and shades actually eludes me, but I'm only a man

 

[emmerson2]

I'm OK with the curtains, as they're cream with burgundy flowers. Pillow cases came with the bedspreads, but slide off onto the floor all by themselves, which isn't a problem, as they're only for show anyway(?). With regards to Val's cushions, there's no room for them, cos Herself's bed is covered in teddy-bears!

Lisa, I'd have bet that you'd side with Herself!

But after 46 years, I think I'll keep her.I'm too old to change!

 

[Lord Braykewynde]

By coincidence Her Ladyship has just had a bedroom makeover :O(

From cream colours we have now gone red. Red duvet and matching pillow cases, red curtains, red bedside lamps and a large picture on the wall of red poppies.

I told her it looked like a knocking shop but having been together since 1963 I knew not to go any further :O(

 

[ValA.]

Like this one, which we pass regularly?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Knockin_Shop.jpg

 

[emmerson2]

By coincidence Her Ladyship has just had a bedroom makeover :O(

From cream colours we have now gone red. Red duvet and matching pillow cases, red curtains, red bedside lamps and a large picture on the wall of red poppies.

I told her it looked like a knocking shop but having been together since 1963 I knew not to go any further :O(

LB, being a Royale owner, and not quite as coarse as you, I said our's looked like a tart's bourdoir.Got the same reaction, though!

 

[David_374350497]

Think about the economic recovery of our country. Designed by man with WOEMEN in mind.

 

[602]

Hi,

Get your own back. Traditionally, beds had four posts, one at each corner, with a canopy over the top. The canopy was to catch creepy crawlies falling out the thatch roof. They then had curtains round the bed, but I'm not sure if that was to retain heat emating from your body, or as modesty panels. Then there was the GOZUNDER........

If she wants a proper bed.....give her one. And give her a proper bed too.

"What was that noiswe? Something fell on the canopy!"

602

 

[captain1]

ref knocking shop some thing i have no knowledge of tell as more Lb

 

[Lord Braykewynde]

ref knocking shop some thing i have no knowledge of tell as more Lb

A house of ill repute where those with kids call them brothel sprouts :O(