Design For Living-Flanders & Swann

[ti:Design For Living] [ar:Flanders & Swann] [al:At The Drop Of A Hat] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Design For Living - Flanders & Swann [00:07.99]When we started making money [00:09.65]When we started making friends [00:12.06]We found a home as soon as we were able to [00:15.22]We bought this bijou residence for about a thousand more [00:18.20]Than the house our little house was once the stable to [00:21.16]With charm [00:22.31]Colour values [00:23.20]Wit [00:23.79]And structural alteration [00:24.44] [00:25.64]Now designed for graceful living [00:28.55]It has quite a reputation [00:32.65]We're terribly House and Garden [00:34.67]At number seven-B [00:36.41]We live in a most amusing muse [00:39.09]Ever so very contemporary [00:41.18]We're terribly House and Garden [00:42.89]The money that one spends [00:44.52]To make a place that won't disgrace [00:46.46]Our House and Garden friends [00:48.57]We've planned an uninhibited interior decor [00:52.00]Curtains made of straw [00:53.53]We've wallpapered the floor [00:56.29]We don't know if we like it but at least we can [00:58.92]Be sure [00:59.44]There's no place like Home Sweet Home [01:02.66]It's fearfully Maison Jardin [01:05.21]At number seven-B [01:06.83]We've rediscovered the chandelier [01:08.67] [01:09.55]Tres tres very contemporary [01:11.83]We're terribly House and Garden [01:13.43]Now at last we've got the chance [01:15.18]The garden's full of furniture [01:16.86]And the house is full of plants [01:19.37]It doesn't make for comfort [01:21.23]But it simply has to be [01:22.72]'Cause we're ever so terribly up-to-date [01:24.41]Contemp-or-ar-or-y [01:26.65]Have you a home that cries out to your every visitor [01:28.94]"Here lives someone who is exciting to know" [01:32.09]No [01:33.56]Well why not collect those little metal [01:37.12]Bottle-tops and nail them upside-down to the floor [01:41.66]This will give the sensation of walking on little metal [01:45.57]Bottle-tops turned upside-down [01:46.29] [01:48.34]Why not get hold of an ordinary Northumbrian [01:52.09]Spokeshaver's coracle Paint it in contrasting stripes [01:56.50]Of say telephone black and white white and hang it [01:59.37]Up in the hall for a guitar tidy for parties [02:03.77]Why not drop in one evening for a mess of pottage [02:08.18]Our speciality just aubergine and carnation petals [02:11.71]With a six-shilling bottle of Mielle du Pap a feast [02:14.19]Fit for a king [02:16.30]I'm delirious about our new cooker fitment with the [02:18.49]Eye-level grille This means that without my having to [02:21.92]Bend down the hot fat can squirt straight into my [02:24.67]Eyes [02:29.08]We're frightfully House and Garden [02:31.10]At number seven-B [02:31.76] [02:32.63]The walls are patterned with shrunken heads [02:34.86]Ever so very contemporary [02:37.03]Our boudoir on the open plan has been a huge [02:40.00]Success [02:40.65]Though everywhere's so open there's nowhere [02:42.40]Safe to dress [02:44.83]With little screens and bottle lamps [02:46.99]And motifs here and there [02:48.51]Mobiles in the air [02:49.61]Ivy everywhere [02:51.26]You mustn't be surprised to meet a cactus on the stair [02:54.39]But we call it Home Sweet Home [02:57.38]We're terribly House and Garden [02:59.14]As I think we've said before [03:00.84]But though seven-B is madly gay [03:03.79]It wouldn't do for every day [03:06.05]We actually live in seven-A [03:09.11]In the house next door