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# Not necessarily poor people
but people with horrendous taste when they are put into modern houses.
(, Sun 16 Dec 2007, 21:06, archived)
# hmm
i don't know how to respond to this. my house at home had them in the hall, up the stairs and in the breakfast room when my family moved in, but it's a post war house i think.
although my mam did have the one in the breakfast room removed (rather shoddily at first) when we moved in

(, Sun 16 Dec 2007, 21:09, archived)
# ^this
hideous and unsightly faux-wood rails around one's abode do nothing to enhance the beauty of the room.
(, Sun 16 Dec 2007, 21:10, archived)
# dado rails are rather useful for hiding the join between old and new plaster
after an extensive dampcourse

/shoddy diy
(, Sun 16 Dec 2007, 21:10, archived)
# well rule of thumb
people with dado rail have spent twice as much on wall paper / paint on those who don't have a dodo rail
plus they're ugly!
(unless your house is an antique (like roverghists) then i'd recommend taking em down and burning your house - gas mark 4 for 30 minutes - turn after 15 minutes
(, Sun 16 Dec 2007, 21:11, archived)
# I love your logic
I had a dado rail in the sitting room in my last house in London but it was built in 1884 and belonged there.

My pet hate is those "lounges" (lordy I hate that word) who put a wallpaper strip thing (where the dado rail should go) and have patterned wallpaper above and plain colour below.
With matching dralon "lounge suite" and matching generic pictures on the wall.
*realises she is on soap box and puts it away and shuts tfu".
(, Sun 16 Dec 2007, 21:17, archived)
# oh good christ yes
lets hunt them all for sport
(, Sun 16 Dec 2007, 21:18, archived)
# ah, yes
the "chav trying to look un-chavvy" style.
eewwwwww.
(, Sun 16 Dec 2007, 21:23, archived)
# They're actually just to hang pictures off
But I think that should be updated to the mangled remains of Handy Andy.
(, Sun 16 Dec 2007, 21:13, archived)
# i think you are thinking of picture rails
which are higher
(, Sun 16 Dec 2007, 21:15, archived)
# he's only a short guy:P
(, Sun 16 Dec 2007, 21:19, archived)
# no...
thats a picture rail
(, Sun 16 Dec 2007, 21:15, archived)