I have two that go on my bed in the morning and come back off in the evening. I'm not allowed to use them for support. They were quite expensive. I don't understand them.
There are several others around the house that seem to serve a purpose but as soon as I engage them in that purpose I am reprimanded. Some are purely utilitarian. There is no way to distinguish between the two.
An unspoken truce emerged several years ago by which if she doesn’t suggest we need more cushions I won’t suggest that we get out of the loft the cushion my mother attempted to make in a spectacularly bad attempt at art and crafts.
When I say expensive, I mean about £50 for the pair. Which seems expensive to me for something that I can't use, don't like the look of and even if I did I would only see them for a few seconds every day as I lobbed them across the room in one direction or the other.
The cushion debate is live and real chez Bailey. We have a LOT. All bought by me. If it were just my OH living in the house there would be none.
We now have a pact that no soft furnishings (including cushions) shall be purchased unless a joint decision is made on them. This is often vacated when OH is away diving (see also painting rooms in a colour that he might not ordinarily agree to if we discussed first). New additions are often not noted in any event and simply merge into the old "cushionscape" as i once heard it referred to by The Allsop.
He also has a similar view to cushions on the bed which are dealt with as per post above.
My particular favourite is a lurid one on my equally lurid green velvet armchair in my study. It is orange velvet on one side and lime green tapestry on the other with lemurs and jungle pattern. He hates it. But it lives in my study so there can be no legitimate complaint.
Fine on sofas and chairs especially as we get older and need a little extra lumbar support. Also good if you're lying on the sofa and don't want your head directly on the relatively hard arm. Definitely not on beds.
A neighbor moving out discarded it and left it in the common area. I took it even though it does not go with any of the other furniture. It does not appear to harbor any vermin.
I sit on it when I meditate (which is about once a month), even though it is not really a sitting cushion.
When I worked in soft furnishings (20 years ago), we sold cushions at £50 each... aaccording to the bankof England, they would be over £90 each now... and people would buy handfuls of the things...
In London I have zero cushions and have never felt the need for them. Just don't feel the need for them. I do have a throws on the sofa and chairs as I don't own them and don't want to make a mess of them.
In Edinburgh I have maybe 4 cushions as 2 for each sofa.
I don’t have them on beds. I did have some on sofa but they went to charity shop and have not replaced. I have some really nice blankets instead on the sofa arms and bottom of bed from Atlantic blankets and Designers Guild etc.
I’m half way through repainting our bedroom today because despite there being a sign in the paint shop that says : orders will not be accepted from husbands without proof from the wife - Nev STILL managed to bring the : wrong colour and wrong texture home….
I have 5 on one sofa, 5 on another, a cushion on most chairs, 4 on another sofa and 2 cushions on the bed (which as everyone says is a waste of time and which I only put on if I am showing a friend round the house for the 1st time). Most of them came with the sofa's the rest bought from Next I think.
you know it's a joke right? It's because their customer service gets a lot of shite from irate wives because the husband got it wrong but blamed the shop.
We have very few cushions. About 5 that came with the sofa and one on a particularly uncomfortable wooden chair I sit on to dry my hair. I feel like I have failed as a woman.
Several years ago I sussed out that I should just bin any non feather pads and replace with feathered, having measureed any covers I wanted to keep, if they didnt have the dimensions in the label, and look out for more attractive covers as I bought more furniture. You’d need a spreadsheet tbh. But hell, I gave up, life is too short!
Fortunately though when we bought a new house last autumn I dug out a load of these pads from the basement and have managed to get covers made along with new curtains etc
Ha, Mr D used to bemoan the sudden increase in cushions when I moved in. He loves them now. We have two enormous faux fur ones from The White Company which are deliciously squishy (cushion pads were from Amazon). Another large faux fur one was a purchase from a shop nearby when I went to stay with Glasserz a few years ago. Can’t remember exactly. Two others are velvet bought from a friend’s shop she used to own. One was a gift from Mr D with the lyrics to our first dance song on it(!). And the other one has an adorable rabbit on it and i couldn’t resist it. There’s more upstairs on the sofa bed which I lean on when I’m on the XBox.
I love a cushion. My favourites are my monkey cushions on our living room sofa from Kagu interiors. I’ve found Biggie Best do nice ones that are a good price. I follow a woman called katy takla and really like her ones but they look like they’d be expensive.
We did have two others on our bed - the nightly ritual was clubbers sighing and hurling it off onto the floor and muttering under his breath about bloody cushions.
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fvck knows
shops as a general rule
it varies depending on where they are
I can’t recall ever discussing this tbf tbf
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are you and nev rowing about cushions?
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Scatter cushions can get fvcked
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Many, many of the blessed things...
One just puts up with them.
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I have some cute gift ones and the rest are crap I bought from Argos
I should become more homey but there are bigger things to address first
I love being piled on a dozen pillows on the L side of my sofa
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On the sofa or elsewhere?
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I like a pile of cushions in a couch, to curl up amongst them with a book. Mr Fox prefers no cushions.
Mostly Dunelm inserts. I tend to make new covers, I love a fabric shop, and simple sewing like that is quite soothing.
I can't bear cushions on a bed, existing just to be flung out of the way.
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‘I love being piled …’
never heard it called that before …
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We have 9 visible :
5 in the living room
Kids have 1 each
1 in guest room
1 meditation sitting on thing in the office
And then 2 in loft storage
I think this is pretty minimal.
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I have two that go on my bed in the morning and come back off in the evening. I'm not allowed to use them for support. They were quite expensive. I don't understand them.
There are several others around the house that seem to serve a purpose but as soon as I engage them in that purpose I am reprimanded. Some are purely utilitarian. There is no way to distinguish between the two.
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Heh @ Alan! We have loads. They seem change about once a year. I don’t think they are expensive tho.
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We have two.
They came with Mrs L.
An unspoken truce emerged several years ago by which if she doesn’t suggest we need more cushions I won’t suggest that we get out of the loft the cushion my mother attempted to make in a spectacularly bad attempt at art and crafts.
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When I say expensive, I mean about £50 for the pair. Which seems expensive to me for something that I can't use, don't like the look of and even if I did I would only see them for a few seconds every day as I lobbed them across the room in one direction or the other.
Cheap for a quiet life though, I suppose.
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None, just have a comfy sofa
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OB: oh, Mr Tinkle, Mr Tinkle
Nev (internal): don't call me that, it's emasculating!
Nev: Yes FoofFoof my love
OB: I want to go to the big John Lewis today
Nev: Why?
OB: because we only have nine visible cushions
Nev (internal): is she asking me to buy invisible cushions?
Nev: Of course. Do we need more then?
OB: yes yes, you just cant scatter nine properly. Here, I will show you.
(OB opens a large filing cabinet and starts rummaging through her indexed library of House Beautiful)
OB: like these ones. For the day parlour.
Nev (internal): it's a fooking lounge
Nev: are they leather?
OB: no. THEY are pleather. (Looks smug and nods)
Nev (internal): I used to be a fooking player
Nev: why do we need pleather cushions?
OB: they are very a la mode. I want to give the place a more bauhaus feel.
Nev (internal): I was trained to kill by the IDF
Nev: of course, I will get the keys
OB: and we have nearly run out of pot pourri!
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heh
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on a sofa - ok, but no more than 2. On a bed -wrong wrong wrong
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Due heh owed to Wango there.
The cushion debate is live and real chez Bailey. We have a LOT. All bought by me. If it were just my OH living in the house there would be none.
We now have a pact that no soft furnishings (including cushions) shall be purchased unless a joint decision is made on them. This is often vacated when OH is away diving (see also painting rooms in a colour that he might not ordinarily agree to if we discussed first). New additions are often not noted in any event and simply merge into the old "cushionscape" as i once heard it referred to by The Allsop.
He also has a similar view to cushions on the bed which are dealt with as per post above.
My particular favourite is a lurid one on my equally lurid green velvet armchair in my study. It is orange velvet on one side and lime green tapestry on the other with lemurs and jungle pattern. He hates it. But it lives in my study so there can be no legitimate complaint.
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Fine on sofas and chairs especially as we get older and need a little extra lumbar support. Also good if you're lying on the sofa and don't want your head directly on the relatively hard arm. Definitely not on beds.
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I mean, what's not to love?
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#teamMrB*
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I have one.
A neighbor moving out discarded it and left it in the common area. I took it even though it does not go with any of the other furniture. It does not appear to harbor any vermin.
I sit on it when I meditate (which is about once a month), even though it is not really a sitting cushion.
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Heh at Wango.
When I worked in soft furnishings (20 years ago), we sold cushions at £50 each... aaccording to the bankof England, they would be over £90 each now... and people would buy handfuls of the things...
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Heh @ wang and much sympathy to Mr B! That cushion looks like something from Elvis’s jungle room!
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Also mind completely blown by the thought of Cam working in soft furnishings!
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Heh:
Stares wistfully across the third floor of BHS Goldaming towards the sprocket department
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It used to be all throws around here
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I coulda been a designer...
We all did things we aren't proud of to get through law school...
Actually, I do like a bit of fabric, but being an untidy minimalist with a small house and small child means it's in theory only...
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ob m88 please read wang’s post to nev and report back
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In London I have zero cushions and have never felt the need for them. Just don't feel the need for them. I do have a throws on the sofa and chairs as I don't own them and don't want to make a mess of them.
In Edinburgh I have maybe 4 cushions as 2 for each sofa.
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I have 4 on my sofa but I don’t find them aesthetically pleasing so need some more.
I also need to buy one for my son’s bed. He will not be consulted.
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I don’t have them on beds. I did have some on sofa but they went to charity shop and have not replaced. I have some really nice blankets instead on the sofa arms and bottom of bed from Atlantic blankets and Designers Guild etc.
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In a world where pillows exist why would you want cushions on the bed?
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I own 2 cushions. They are yellow, to contrast the black sofa. Currently they're stored away as they just get in my way.
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😂😂😂😂 at Wango
I’m half way through repainting our bedroom today because despite there being a sign in the paint shop that says : orders will not be accepted from husbands without proof from the wife - Nev STILL managed to bring the : wrong colour and wrong texture home….
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I have 5 on one sofa, 5 on another, a cushion on most chairs, 4 on another sofa and 2 cushions on the bed (which as everyone says is a waste of time and which I only put on if I am showing a friend round the house for the 1st time). Most of them came with the sofa's the rest bought from Next I think.
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And he'll keep doing that until you stop asking him to do things he doesn't want to do... it's a man thing.
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This makes me feel a little bit sick, I would shop somewhere else.
orders will not be accepted from husbands without proof from the wife
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I think it’s supposed to be humorous- all men are useless man-children and all women are bossy nags!!!!
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you know it's a joke right? It's because their customer service gets a lot of shite from irate wives because the husband got it wrong but blamed the shop.
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We have 8 on the sofa and 10 on our bed. It’s ridiculous. Even the dogs hate them and push them off the sofa when trying to find a comfortable spot.
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I do understand it's a joke, a very tired one.
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I find this thread strangely comforting.
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We have very few cushions. About 5 that came with the sofa and one on a particularly uncomfortable wooden chair I sit on to dry my hair. I feel like I have failed as a woman.
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My mother is massively into the cushions on bed thing. If I go and visit I have to throw at least 5 of them off the bed to actually use it
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Shopkeeper - and you are sure mrs cohen wants the orange amd turqoise stripy paint for the playroom?
Nev (internal) - i spent six months on a kibbutz learning the higher secrets of thw talmud with rabbi yoshi ben ribbitz himself
Nev - yes please Mr Green. And do you have any cherokee-hair brushes?
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Masses (not on beds)
Several years ago I sussed out that I should just bin any non feather pads and replace with feathered, having measureed any covers I wanted to keep, if they didnt have the dimensions in the label, and look out for more attractive covers as I bought more furniture. You’d need a spreadsheet tbh. But hell, I gave up, life is too short!
Fortunately though when we bought a new house last autumn I dug out a load of these pads from the basement and have managed to get covers made along with new curtains etc
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It’s like Wang can see into my marriage…
Neville is worried the China dogs are breeding at the moment because they keep popping up around the house, ditto the China bunnies and birds.
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Ha, Mr D used to bemoan the sudden increase in cushions when I moved in. He loves them now. We have two enormous faux fur ones from The White Company which are deliciously squishy (cushion pads were from Amazon). Another large faux fur one was a purchase from a shop nearby when I went to stay with Glasserz a few years ago. Can’t remember exactly. Two others are velvet bought from a friend’s shop she used to own. One was a gift from Mr D with the lyrics to our first dance song on it(!). And the other one has an adorable rabbit on it and i couldn’t resist it. There’s more upstairs on the sofa bed which I lean on when I’m on the XBox.
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Gorlami wins the thread - how tf do you have 10 cushions on a bed ??! Is that with pillows as well?? I’m impressed
Also impressed at cam in bhs godalming
And enjoyed Bailey’s cushions and dusty’s too.
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Heh wang!
I love a cushion. My favourites are my monkey cushions on our living room sofa from Kagu interiors. I’ve found Biggie Best do nice ones that are a good price. I follow a woman called katy takla and really like her ones but they look like they’d be expensive.
We did have two others on our bed - the nightly ritual was clubbers sighing and hurling it off onto the floor and muttering under his breath about bloody cushions.
I also love a rug…!
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“He loves them now.”
Are you sure???
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I can't deal with feathers Minkie, I'd need antihistamines to sit near your cushions.
Our dog has her own cushion in her bed, otherwise she'd pinch one from the couch.
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