Throwback Thursday: Argyle Place
A post by
eye_of_a_cat made me think of the tenement we lived in when we were first married. It occupied the top two storeys of the above building. The glass in the turret was curved which was an insurance nightmare. Window glass insurance is not normally a great concern but when we had the sashes insulated, the company wouldn't actually cover for breakages because replacements had a tendency to break during transit and so the eventual cost of a breakage was hard to estimate. Fortunately none were broken. On the "ground" floor the turret sat in one corner of a large room. We had a round dining table which we placed in the window and we used the room as a sitting room/dining room. It conveniently had a hatch through to the tiny kitchen. On the top floor the turret formed an almost entirely circular bedroom with curved plastered walls (the plaster we suspected was held in place by the wallpaper). There was a bed custom built into one wall and we used to sit on it and play playstation games on our Playstation 1.
This being the height of the Changing Rooms era we had enthusiastically painted the rooms of the flat in a variety of colours. I recall the sitting/dining room was green and the office next to it was blue. The turret room was white, if I remember correctly, but we painted the ceiling dark blue and I think we stuck glow stars on it, though I'm no longer certain if we actually did that or merely planned to do that.
We sold it, of course, when we left Edinburgh after a saga involving a small area of flat roof around the back of the flat and a surprising number of buyers who dropped out on discovering the existence of said flat roof.
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