Regret buying it.

[Nanto2girls]

Have you ever bought something for the housr and regretted it.
A couple of years ago we bought a glass tv stand for the conservatory.
No joke its the bane of my life. It never looks free of dust.
We had a wood tv stand before,oh how i wish we still had it.
It always looked nice.
Told hubby we are going to have to look round for a wooden one.

[Grauntie Mag]

I had some curtains made for patio doors, not small and very expensive fabric. I absolutely loved the pattern in the shop but when they were hung they looked awful! I just couldn’t live with them. They are in the attic in a bag. They have been there three years now. I tried to sell them but no takers. Next stop Charity shop!

[Lizzie48]

When hubby was alive we bought a new 3 piece suite, it was his choice, I was 50 years old at the time and it was more for 80 year olds, I never liked it, we even had Royal Axminster carpet , that made it worse! After he died I bought this suite and luckily sold the other to an elderly couple. The same for the carpet, we all make wrong choices at times.

[Plantaholic]

Yes, the floor tiles in my bathroom, as I am having a new shower cubicle, I am tempted to replace the flooring.

[Oma]

God yes , Glass tables and Chrome legs on dinning room chairs ,
I am going back to wood , never again will I buy glass coffee table and side tables , They need constant cleaning .
I remember years ago buying a black glass TV stand within days i regretted it .

WE also bought a Brown leather sofa and chairs , always had cream leather , we had gave our old suite to DS as he was about to move in a flat with our now DIL
We had this Brown suite 1 week , I kid you not 1 week and i gave them that and took my old suite back .

As soon as it was placed in my living room I knew we had made the wrong choice , I hated it with a passion .

[Daisy]

Have you ever bought something for the housr and regretted it.
A couple of years ago we bought a glass tv stand for the conservatory.
No joke its the bane of my life. It never looks free of dust.
We had a wood tv stand before,oh how i wish we still had it.
It always looked nice.
Told hubby we are going to have to look round for a wooden one.

Nanto - you should have been a fly on the wall in our living room when we moved all the furniture round a couple of days ago. We also have a glass tv stand, with chrome legs. It has become the bane of my life. It never looks free of dust either, plus in our house, nose marks (dogs,' not people's) and a tangle of cables behind it. It's definitely going - I don't care where, but it's going. We've put the tv on a long coffee table with a shelf underneath for the Sky box. It looks about 100 times better and matches most of the rest of the furniture.

I'm very happy to start a campaign to banish glass tv stands!!!

Oma - keeping a new suite for one week must be some kind of record! How long did your DS keep the brown suite for?

Grauntie - that feeling of "I just can't live with this" is horrible, but very real. At least someone might like them if you send them to the charity shop.

Lizzie - he was a brave man, choosing a big item like that on his own, bless him.

Plant - don't resist the temptation - just choose new flooring. You will never like those tiles any better even with your new shower.

Lizzie - the problem OH and I have is that we've got vastly different tastes in furniture and colour schemes etc. So nearly everything is a compromise. He likes antiques, lots of what I can only call 'clutter' and I like modern, light and bright colours and minimalism.

[Oma]

Daisy they were over the moon with it and kept it about 6 years , who wouldn't be pleased with a brand new leather sofa and chairs for free , apart from me that is

Plant you go for the tiles you deserve them

Daisy you know how Storm likes to lick my glass tables and would lay on the chrome bases of my dinning table

[Glammanana]

This all sounds so familiar to me,when we moved back from Spain we needed to buy new sofa's as we had sold most of our big furniture with the villa.
After looking around the different stores we decided on the style and size we needed I wanted a light coloured leather but John wanted brown leather and would not change his mind so they where ordered in brown as soon as they arrived I knew it was wrong for the room but he thought it was marvelous.Bless him x
I now have had said sofa's sent to DDs her room is much bigger than mine and I have 2 x curved burgundy sofa's & changed the curtains to voile's so the while room looks lighter and brighter specially now I have nearly finished wallpapering 9this week hopefully)

[Enfys]

Me too re the glass tv table! I hate it, will be looking for an oak one then it will match everything else. I can’t think why we didn’t do that in the first place.

[Plantaholic]

Daisy, your OH and I have the same taste, all my furniture is old, some things are antique. We did have a glass TV stand too but I was in JL and saw an antique looking wooden one with a cupboard in the sale. I put my glass one on the local website and it went the next day.

[Daisy]

Daisy they were over the moon with it and kept it about 6 years , who wouldn't be pleased with a brand new leather sofa and chairs for free , apart from me that is

and me!

[Daisy]

Glamm - your room sounds beautiful and very stylish.

Enfys - I think the oak table makes the tv look more balanced. The glass one looked as though it was hardly there and seemed insubstantial, even though it weighs a ton!

Plant - my OH grew up surrounded by a lot a beautiful old furniture, carpets, etc. His granny used to go to auctions at old houses and she had a good eye and bought well. There were a lot of big houses in those days that were selling paintings, furniture etc to pay death duties. But no matter how beautiful something is if it won't fit it won't fit, but they would be the things he'd choose if he could.

[Glammanana]

Talking of glass TV tables when I worked for the Charity the shop used to have lots of glass tables donated the volunteers hated them as they had to be polished nearly every day,some of them would have been expensive to buy when new but we where lucky to get £5 for them when they went on on the shop floor for sale,we used to comment that the table would be back soon when the purchaser realised how much cleaning it involved.

[Daisy]

Glamm, I'm beginning to think glass tables for charity shops must be like teapots - they're in the charity shop because no-one wanted them, and for a very good reason!

[Gemini]

Anything which shows the dust would definitely be on my list to regret buying!


I am trying to think of anything I regret buying, but haven't come up with anything yet.