Day 1 of flat hunting (well, mostly trawling through the ads, but two viewings booked for Monday...)

[brokenblossom]

Right then, who wants to give me some definitive definitions of the terms

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[gypsumfantastic]

A bedsit is the same as a studio, I believe...

[brokenblossom]

There doesn't seem to be much in the way of firm consensus on this one! In any case, I reckon I'll steer clear of both terms...

[gypsumfantastic]

Hmm...you'd be surprised. Ms. Laura Herbert's latest 'pad' is technically a bedsit (in that the lounge and bedroom are as one), but it has a separate kitchen and hallway and, I presume, bathroom. But I have not seen that part.

Unless she doesn't have one. Eep!

[bluebellrock]

Do it! Do it! Please show the hairdresser that pic - and be as po'-faced as you are able to manage! :D

xxx

PS: It would totally make their day. ;)

[brokenblossom]

Tempting as it was, I wasn't feeling sufficiently brazen that day! I hadn't used that hairdresser before, either, so didn't have even half a clue of how it might be taken. In the circs, I'm glad I didn't - I think I had my hair cut by the only shy hairdresser in business! I rather think she'd have been flummoxed if I'd gone with it...

...but maybe another hairdresser, another time ;-)

xxx

PS: hope you're a happy little vegemite!!

[bluebellrock]

Oops! Apologies for the pressure. Maybe next time it will feel right. :)

[burnyourbones]

I was only saying to miss J the other week how lovely you'd look with a fringe.
xx

[brokenblossom]

Awww, bless you, sweet thing. Well I asked for 'a longish, sort of sideswept fringe', and though I suspect it's actually too long to qualify as a fringe (more like I've had layers cut up to pretty short through the front bits of my hair, and have used the front locks on one side to create a wee sideparting), it's a definitely a step nearer to one. Maybe getting there gradually is the best way for me to embrace the fringe, and I should trim a little more off this 'un each week until I'm well and truly banged to rights!

Oh, hair. Such a complicated business, fraught w/ dangers and potential for horrendous embarrassment...

xxx

[daedalus_bloom]

The place that I lived in before coming to live with that sister of yours was described as a 'studio'. I think that it's just a euphemism for 'bedsit' really. BUT the only place that I've been in that was described as a bedsit (occupied by David Gates) had its own little kitchen area, while the bathroom parts were shared with other tennants. My 'studio' (I prefer 'garret') involved sharing both bathroom and kitchen. They're both the same thing though, but with minor details, I expect.

A flat, I think, is entirely self contained and has everything that you could wish for for yourself. I couldn't afford one of those meself, although I wish that I could have had some of the ones that I saw...

[brokenblossom]

I never did see inside that there place o' yours. Was it littered w/ half squeezed out tubes of colours, assemblages of fruit and pots, pert young women draped nakedly over chaises longues, and stinking of turps and linseed oil?

I could quite fancy myself in a garret, but I don't reckon the cat'd be too impressed.

I will continue on my current path of ignoring things marked studio or bedsit (or studio apartment, or studio flat), I expect. It's probably for the best. I can't afford a self contained flat either, but hopefully the housing benefits folk will decide that I can!

[dansette]

I tend to think that a studio is supposed to have its own bathroom where a bedsit would involve sharing but landlords will call anything what they want and still charge through the roof right?

[brokenblossom]

Indeed... I rather suspect that a good proportion of the landlords currently advertising their properties as 'studios' just think it's the modern/posh word for bedsit. And maybe it is, for all I know!!