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Jun. 19th, 2007 09:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaYesterday, finding myself with 15 minutes to kill, I wandered into Habitat.
Habitat is a scary, scary place. I do not live in this accessorised world they have created. I am intrigued to note that you can purchase co-ordinating bedding, dressing gowns, rugs, and light fittings. What happens when you change the bed ? Are you immediately plunged into non-co-ordinating hell ? Perhaps people buy multiple copies of the bedding, but it worries me that there just might be people out there who change the rugs, etc, to match.
Admittedly, their example room was done in rather lovely tones of purple. Even so, I couldn't imagine real people managing to be so together about their furnishings. Everything about the decor said "hotel!" to me - pleasant, luxurious but hardly homely. And incidentally: scatter cushions. Why ?
I'm pleased to note that, like Ikea, Habitat give all their designs names. One can purchase a shower curtain in "Hitchcock". It appears to be a rather plain, pale blue - perhaps the sort of colour that shower curtain would have been had it not been shot in black and white. I do hope that when you unfold said curtain it will be blotched with red stains; I fear, however, that it won't be.
One can also purchase, if one feels inclined, a "Tall mirrored cabernet". Presumably it holds all your toiletries, allows you to check your make-up and goes nicely with a steak sandwich.
Habitat is a scary, scary place. I do not live in this accessorised world they have created. I am intrigued to note that you can purchase co-ordinating bedding, dressing gowns, rugs, and light fittings. What happens when you change the bed ? Are you immediately plunged into non-co-ordinating hell ? Perhaps people buy multiple copies of the bedding, but it worries me that there just might be people out there who change the rugs, etc, to match.
Admittedly, their example room was done in rather lovely tones of purple. Even so, I couldn't imagine real people managing to be so together about their furnishings. Everything about the decor said "hotel!" to me - pleasant, luxurious but hardly homely. And incidentally: scatter cushions. Why ?
I'm pleased to note that, like Ikea, Habitat give all their designs names. One can purchase a shower curtain in "Hitchcock". It appears to be a rather plain, pale blue - perhaps the sort of colour that shower curtain would have been had it not been shot in black and white. I do hope that when you unfold said curtain it will be blotched with red stains; I fear, however, that it won't be.
One can also purchase, if one feels inclined, a "Tall mirrored cabernet". Presumably it holds all your toiletries, allows you to check your make-up and goes nicely with a steak sandwich.
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Date: 2007-06-19 01:18 pm (UTC)I used to go back in the eighties but I think their USP has become no longer unique, loads of shops are now in competition with them for the yuppy chic kind of area. Today everything is designer!
Also since Sir Terence stepped down from day to day control of the company they have rather lost their way in the world.