|
Design for Living
|
| |
|
|
Flanders:
|
Now this song, "Design for Living":
|
|
|
|
|
Flanders:
|
When we started making money,
|
|
Swann:
|
When we started making friends,
|
|
Both:
|
We found a home as soon as we were able to.
|
|
|
|
|
Flanders:
|
We bought this bijou residence for about a thousand more,
|
|
|
Than the house our little house was once the stable to.
|
|
|
|
|
Swann:
|
With charm...
|
|
Flanders:
|
Colour values...
|
|
Swann:
|
Wit...
|
|
Flanders:
|
And structural alteration,
|
|
Both:
|
Now designed for graceful living,
|
|
|
It has quite a reputation.
|
|
|
|
|
|
We're terribly House and Garden,
|
|
|
At number seven-B.
|
|
|
We live in a most amusing muse,
|
|
|
Ever so very contemporary.
|
|
|
|
|
|
We're terribly House and Garden,
|
|
|
The money that one spends.
|
|
|
To make a place that won't disgrace,
|
|
|
Our House and Garden friends.
|
|
|
|
|
|
We've planned an uninhibited interior decor,
|
|
Swann:
|
Curtains made of straw...
|
|
Flanders:
|
We've wallpapered the floor...
|
|
Both:
|
We don't know if we like it, but at least we can be sure,
|
|
|
There's no place like Home Sweet Home.
|
|
|
|
|
|
It's fearfully Maison Jardin,
|
|
|
At number seven-B.
|
|
|
We've rediscovered the chandelier,
|
|
|
Tres tres very contemporary.
|
|
|
|
|
|
We're terribly House and Garden,
|
|
|
Now at last we've got the chance.
|
|
Swann:
|
The garden's full of furniture...
|
|
Flanders:
|
And the house is full of plants!
|
|
|
|
|
Both:
|
It doesn't make for comfort,
|
|
|
But it simply has to be.
|
|
|
'Cause we're ever so terribly up-to-date,
|
|
|
Contemp-or-ar-or-y!
|
|
|
|
|
Flanders:
|
Have you a home that cries out to your every visitor,
|
|
|
"Here lives someone who is exciting to know"?
|
|
|
|
|
|
No?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Well, why not... collect those little metal bottle-tops, and nail them upside-down to the floor? This will give the sensation... of walking... on little metal bottle-tops turned upside-down.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Why not... get hold of an ordinary Northumbrian spokeshaver's coracle? Paint it in contrasting stripes of, say, telephone black and white white, and hang it up in the hall for a guitar tidy for parties.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Why not... drop in one evening for a mess of pottage? Our speciality, just aubergine and carnation petals. With a six-shilling bottle of Mielle du Pap, a feast fit for a king.
|
|
|
|
|
|
I'm delirious about our new cooker fitment with the eye-level grille. This means that without my having to bend down, the hot fat can squirt straight into my eyes!
|
|
|
|
|
Both:
|
We're frightfully House and Garden,
|
|
|
At number seven-B,
|
|
|
The walls are patterned with shrunken heads,
|
|
|
Ever so very contemporary.
|
|
|
|
|
Swann:
|
Our boudoir on the open plan has been a huge success...
|
|
Flanders:
|
Though everywhere's so open, there's nowhere safe to dress!
|
|
|
|
|
Both:
|
With little screens, and bottle lamps,
|
|
|
And motifs here and there.
|
|
Swann:
|
Mobiles in the air...
|
|
Flanders:
|
Ivy everywhere!
|
|
Both:
|
You mustn't be surprised to meet a cactus on the stair,
|
|
|
But we call it Home Sweet Home.
|
|
|
|
|
|
We're terribly House and Garden,
|
|
|
As I think we've said before.
|
|
|
But though seven-B is madly gay,
|
|
|
It wouldn't do for every day,
|
|
|
We actually live in seven-A,
|
|
|
In the house next door!
|