Tom
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Did a bit of house shopping this weekend. Got these two cheapo bargains from argos, getting delivered a week on saturday, bedroom furniture:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/6151850.htm
Sofabed for the spare room:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/6295242/c_1/1|category_root|Home+and+furniture|14417894/c_2/2|14417894|Sofabeds+and+futons|14418251.htm
Also had a look around some sofa places, need to measure up but the two that caught the eye were:
http://www.csl-sofas.co.uk/corner-groups/Halo/2.5-CORNER-2.5
And this (but in black):
http://www.csl-sofas.co.uk/corner-groups/Minnesota/2.5-CORNER-1.5
Also keeping tabs on this on ebay for the kitchen:
We've also bought loads of other boring stuff (hoover, iron, more kitchen stuff blah blah).
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Tom
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Just ordered sky (through topcashback), getting installed on Saturday morning!
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Russ
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think you get a tenner more on quidco, do you still get the m&s vouchers
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Tom
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Originally posted by Russ
think you get a tenner more on quidco, do you still get the m&s vouchers
I get £25 through topcash, pretty sure I still get the £25 vouchers too 
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Ben G
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buying all the stuff was the best and worst part for me.
you finally realise it's happening but your credit card takes an absolute hammering 
nice one mate, i prefer the leather sofa, easier to clean and leather smells nicer.
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Tom
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I have bought so much stuff already that we're not having to hammer credit cards plus we got some money from family etc too which has helped, quite lucky really.
Cheers mate, I prefer the leather but the missus has found another one she likes now  :
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Tom
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Moved in successfully over weekend, place was filthy and spent about 6 hours cleaning it over friday night and saturday morning before moving stuff in
All sorted now, went to order this couch yesterday (she decided she likes it again), went for the extra width (so that it was same length from the corner to each outside edge) have to wait 8 weeks for it though 
Will take some pics over next few days, the TV looks tiny because the living room is so big, might have to invest in a projector tbh.
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Hammer
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Nice one mate 
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Tom
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Couple of pics, apols about quality they are from my phone:
Kitchen 1
Kitchen 2
Hall into second bedroom
Height of ceiling in living room
[Edited on 15-04-2011 by Tom]
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Robbo
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Looking good dude!
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spencer88
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Loving the staircase!
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Tom
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Looking good dude!
Cheers Bob, Sofa is getting delivered in the next 2 weeks now too, woop!!
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Tom
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Had lots of issues with the shitty furnituyre from argos so just sent it back. Have got some temporary rails and stuff until we find something we like. Also having problems with phoneline and BB
On the plus side, our couch came on friday:
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Nath
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Beast of a couch 
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Russ
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looks far too big for the room
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Tom
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Originally posted by Russ
looks far too big for the room
We have it positioned away from the wall for the time-being (until we get some more living room furniture), the room is bigger than it looks from that angle. Will try and remember to get a pic from the other side tonight.
Nath, it's comfy as feck and comfortably seats 7
[Edited on 09-05-2011 by Tom]
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John
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quote:
Originally posted by Tom
Also having problems with phone line and BB
Despite me going out of my way and spending an hour on the phone every night for a week, my phoneline and BB still aren't in.
19th of May for the phone line now and another week at least on top for broadband.
Sky/BT are idiots.
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Tom
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quote:
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Originally posted by Tom
Also having problems with phone line and BB
Despite me going out of my way and spending an hour on the phone every night for a week, my phoneline and BB still aren't in.
19th of May for the phone line now and another week at least on top for broadband.
Sky/BT are idiots.
I went with plusnet for both. The phoneline was 'switched on' 25th April, the BB was then 'switched on' on 2nd May. Neither have worked once yet, numerous phonecalls and texts (they have a weird text service) and they have finally figured out (today) that 'Our testing has identified a fault on your phone line. This has now been raised with our wholesale provider for further investegation' I'll get another text tomorrow saying something similar.
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SXIBLK
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same as my sofa although we got the brown option not bad priced and easy to clean etc
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Sam
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Basically Tom they are now passing the buck back to BT (the "wholesale provider")...
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Tom
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quote:
Originally posted by SXIBLK
same as my sofa although we got the brown option not bad priced and easy to clean etc
Yeah for the size of it, very reasonably priced aren't they! I've just worked out my room is 27 sq M btw
Sam, I assume that's what happening yes
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Tom
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Reverse angle, room is a little empty at the moment!
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Tom
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Got a BT engineer coming tomorrow mornin g, hopefully sort out the issue. They better not ask me for any money
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Russ
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yeah it looks better form that angle, how ling before you get fed up of walking round and start diving over it though
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Ben G
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that's exactly what i'd do everytime
then end up spazzing out on the sofa because my back had gone again
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