{"id":28916,"date":"2021-09-08T08:19:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T13:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=28916"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:47:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T20:47:20","slug":"a-quiz-too-close-to-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/08\/a-quiz-too-close-to-home\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quiz Too Close To Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/fabulous\/16068549\/which-changing-rooms-trends-are-you-guilty-of\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">DAFT DESIGNS Changing Rooms brought us floating shelves and rag-rolled walls \u2013 how many of these dodgy 90\u2019s trends are YOU guilty of?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Nineties and Noughties series had questionable taste and encouraged a nation of DIY decorators, sometimes with disastrous results.<\/p>\n<p>Siobhan O&#8217;Connor asks how many of these popular Changing Rooms hacks you can remember, and which are still lurking in your home?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, I score highly on the quiz, mostly for the homes in Casinport and Nogglestead.  Our home in Old Trees was completely remodeled in 2005-2006 as it was flipped to us, so its knockdown paint job won&#8217;t be eligible for nostalgic listicles for another ten years.<\/p>\n<p>So how many of the listed designs have I suffered through?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>MDF (Medium-Density Fibreboard)<\/strong>.  C&#8217;mon, man, I still have two Sauder printer stands as an end table and an entertainment center, so I&#8217;m way into this.  Also, most of Nogglestead&#8217;s bookshelves are fibreboard of various states of breakdown.  I&#8217;m pleased to say our expensive furnishings are not; they&#8217;re cheap but costly laminates, we&#8217;re discovering as the laminate is getting nicked.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Boudoir Bedrooms<\/strong>.  Well, this includes four poster beds, and one of the costly laminates is a bed that you can configure as a canopy, four poster, or sleigh bed.  We&#8217;ve generally had it in the canopy configuration, but only rarely with actual fabric.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mirrored Wardrobes<\/strong>.  The photo has mirrored doors on the closets, which were a feature on our home in Casinoport.<\/li>\n<li>Terracota.<\/li>\n<li>Stenciling\/Tape.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rag-rolling\/Sponging<\/strong>.  I ragrolled my home office right before installing my expensive MDF desk in it.<\/li>\n<li>Shaggy Sheets.<\/li>\n<li>Floating Shelves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I almost gave myself another bold for the stenciling and tape as Nogglestead has several wallpaper borders which are kind of in line with the thought, but they&#8217;re not exactly the same thing, so I used that loophole.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;m at 50%, with 37.5% occurring here at Nogglestead.  I might have mentioned we haven&#8217;t upgraded it a whole lot.  I suspect we&#8217;re going to be those trapped in amber time capsule people whose homes look like they haven&#8217;t changed in 40 years.  And we won&#8217;t have been the ones to have changed it to its last state in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAFT DESIGNS Changing Rooms brought us floating shelves and rag-rolled walls \u2013 how many of these dodgy 90\u2019s trends are YOU guilty of? The Nineties and Noughties series had questionable taste and encouraged a nation of DIY decorators, sometimes with disastrous results. 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