Dursley home (was Re: Dobby & being picky)

[joanne0012]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "alhewison" <Ali at z...> wrote:
>Harry's bedroom is actually more dreary than I imagined it. I just 
> thought that as the room had previously been Dudley's spare, it would 
> actually look ok. I can live with that though as I never felt the 
> Dursley house was quite "right" in PS/SS.

I suppose if Dudley treated the room as a giant storge closet, there would be no 
need to decorate it.  And certainly the Dursleys wouldn't give Harry any "good" 
furniture, special comforts, or decor.  

When I first saw the Dursleys' living room (parlor? sitting room?) in the film, I 
nearly screamed -- their wallpaper is the EXACT same as the wallpaper that 
came with my house, which I bought from a rather Dursley-ish family!

I've done a 3-week home exchange in London, but that's the extent of my insight 
into British homes -- what was it about the Dursley place that didn't seem right 
to you?  Was it something related to the books, or to the general Dursley-class 
lifestyle?