#1147

I know…but dfs don’t know what material it is :see_no_evil::woman_shrugging:t2:

I dont have any money for a new sofa anyway, just like window shopping

#1148

Moved in the bed sette from the flat I’m selling. It’s a decade old so it’s white cover is a little on the weathered side. Probably needs to be properly redone be we just went with some sort of stretchy sheet type thing which you can put over the top and tuck down the gaps.

#1149

Some of the sofa cover companies are so expensive! I asked my friend if she’d recover mine and she wanted £350 (my sofa cost less than that). I looked at benz or whatever that ikea covers company is called and it was a couple of hundred but then I found that ikea had some different covers for £60 ish though not a great selection of colours. And obviously you have to have an ikea one to start with.

#1150

Also sofas without removable/washable covers shouldn’t exist. I wash mine all the time.

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#1151

Absolutely with you on this.

The cover on my bed settee is removable and washable. Getting it back on would be a challenge though. Plus I’m not sure buying a white sofa is ever a good idea in the first place.

I’d love to be able to spend the money on getting it recovered, and we can probably afford it, but it’s way down the list of things to fork out on. Especially as we’ve just spent the sort of money per roll for wallpaper that would get me decried as Tory on here.

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#1152

One of the advantages of getting a well-known sofa type is that you can often get cheaper re-upholstery and cushions as they don’t need a fresh measure every time and can make them up in bulk and post them through.

We bought an old second hand ercol daybed frame for £300ish, and were able to get new cushions, with good quality removeable fabric covers for about £350 from these guys:

They sell overstock on ebay too, for a bit less than we paid, but we didn’t like any of the colours they had on there at the time.

Add a bit of elbow grease restoring the frame and re-webbing it, and we had a ‘new’ sofa for about half what you’d pay for a restored one, and a third of what you’d pay for a new one.

#1153

don’t understand why with Kallax why there aren’t loads of companies making cheap inserts for them, draws, multilevel shelves, trays etc.

they do exist but are so expensive for what they are

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#1154

Yes we really need some kind of clear door on each section of ours as the cats keep scratching at our vinyl but never sure if the records will still fit in with inserts.

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#1155

Omg want it :heart_eyes:

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#1156

Just need to post to share my sadness at losing my row of bookcases next week when my central heating gets installed and I need to have two massive radiators there. Closer it gets to the date the more I question whether heat is worth losing one of my favourite parts of my house for. I’m going to have almost no wall space in my house that I will be able to put furniture against so basically everything has to go. Oh god, what have I done.

NO MORE :sob:

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NO MORE :sob:

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STOVE TO BE DISCONNECTED AND CHIMNEY SEALED :sob:

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I think I might be starting to have second thoughts
… :grimacing:

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#1157

No second thoughts! You need radiators!

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#1158

Oh no :sob: you need the heat but the all space they take up is so frustrating!

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#1159

We’re blanket buddies too. That dunelm one. I love it, all the cosy colours (cat has commandeered it as his though)

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#1160

This was my worry with my cats - but thankfully they have not scratched any vinyl (my sofa and leather chair on the other hand)

#1161

A radiator shelf? yay or nay?

Backstory is I have a small radiator in my bedroom which I bought a radiator cover for so I could put some picture frames and a plant on it BUT it blocks most of the heat and it’s a very cold room so need my radiator out…

I quite like the look of this?

  • Not for me clive
  • Loves it
  • eeehh could take or leave it

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#1162

Is paint furniture?

#1163

I like them and I have one for M’s room but it’s one that is directly on the radiator so no need to drill anything (https://www.dunelm.com/product/white-radiator-shelf-1000163890)

However it does seem a little warped. They are definitely granny territory but that’s not a bad thing.

#1164

This is what I saw that sparked me to go “radiator shelves are a thing!?”
I need to leave a gap between the top of the radiator and the shelf as that’s what’s blocking it coming out of my current cover. I’m hoping this will help heat the room better (as it’s supposed to push the heat flow out into the room too rather than up the wall…

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#1165

M’s room does seem a little warmer, I also have those fool steips behind the radiator itself to help with heat.

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#1166

fool steips?

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