the daydream fund challenge thread

alfie_1

this my neat tidy dresser....NOT

p.s. there is about 4 usefull kitchen items amongst that lot

choille

Very nice Alfie - reminds me I have an old Victorian pine dresser thing/cupboard thing down at my Mother's house, but my bro will have claimed that as his.

I even thought about buying a wrdrobe from an auction & painting it, remove the doors & shelf it - think if I paint everythingthe same flat colour it should look okayish? Get some nice china, glass, metal handles. Just dreaming as the wind is rocking the van - weird weather all the time.

choille

You know it's years since I bought a home magazine - they just seemed a rip off, but feel out of touch - not necessarily a bad thing I suppose as not really a trend follower.
Oh, neighbour has promised me an original butcher's block - that'll be great.

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

oh LIR...just give me a list and i will see what i can find ...for free ! would you want an oil/multi fuel/gas/elec aga ??

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

can you use wood in solid fuel ones? we had one but it was always coal.

Is electric viable? Does it chomp through electricity? I guess it would be solid fuel we'd need, but electrity sounds cleaner and easier! I think some new Rayburns in corporatye solar but cannot remember how .....and ofcourse....THEY never come up for thirty three pounds! I should write a list of everything we're looking for atm.....but head is all over the place. I practically fell over the only real good purchase....a seriously chuncy curtain rail...I want them all through the house but the price of them....we found a bargain one at a car boot sale that they thought noone wold buy, not realising it was the most expensive sort of curtain rail!

the bloody woodburner, more curtain rails, an aga....atm a fridge too, because all the shelves are broken in ours ......um.....forgotten now everything else.:o




Oh, and my woodchip person seems to have disappeared, so I am looking for woodchip again:mad: I need a haulier to bring it which is the problem, I need at least 14 cubic metres....which seems to be the lorry size, and that seems to be about 400 quids worth of haulage, I could use double the amount but not afford it ......its to resurface the barn the horses use as a shelter.

RAS

choille wrote: »

Very nice Alfie - reminds me I have an old Victorian pine dresser thing/cupboard thing down at my Mother's house, but my bro will have claimed that as his.

I even thought about buying a wrdrobe from an auction & painting it, remove the doors & shelf it - think if I paint everythingthe same flat colour it should look okayish? Get some nice china, glass, metal handles. Just dreaming as the wind is rocking the van - weird weather all the time.

choille

family moved into an old house which still have some of the original pre-war (first) fitted oak cupboards, some less than lovely orange 60/70's pine fitted units and pine-cladding to dado level and some solid fitted shelves, to which they added a couple of sturdy book cases from elsewhere in the house as extra shelving. There were some very solid but a bit battered wood surfaces.

The decor was dire and to make it worth re-doing the kitchen would need a small mortgage. So they re-painted the walls and then re-painted everything except the original oak cupboards with a toning matt paint. As a result the hotch-potch of furniture of different ages and styles has appears a unified whole. The work surfaces were treated with varnish from the garage and get a little tart up every year.

I was really impressed by the change fromn dire to really stylish with very little effort.

And if tastes change, they can just re-paint a new colour quite quickly.

They have now been advised that rather than get the mortgage, they should leave it if they come to sell, "as anyone moving in will just gut the kitchen anyway and you would be wasting money!"

One trick they use is to sort out the curtains and then pick one pale colour for the walls - since nearly all their curtains are second hand.

alfie_1

choille wrote: »

Very nice Alfie - reminds me I have an old Victorian pine dresser thing/cupboard thing down at my Mother's house, but my bro will have claimed that as his.

I even thought about buying a wrdrobe from an auction & painting it, remove the doors & shelf it - think if I paint everythingthe same flat colour it should look okayish? Get some nice china, glass, metal handles. Just dreaming as the wind is rocking the van - weird weather all the time.

a good one CHOILLE is to get a wardrobe/cupboard where you just take out the panels in the doors, paint it,chicken wire the inside of doors [even add a thin voille gathered behind that if you dont want all the contents on view !]

choille

Hi RAS - Great stuff. If it aint broke don't fix it. Their kitchen sounds great & practical.

Alfie - chicken wire is a bit Desperate Dan even for me, but I know what you mean - you get nice gilt mesh that I've seen done. I can cut glass & wouldn't mind glazing one - wardrobe that is. Would need to get one first I suppose.

Just this afternoon went & ordered enough outside cladding to do the kitchen exterior & asked if we could have a few sacks of off cuts - saw mil is now charging for off cuts we were told. Goodness that's new & also ccharging for slab wood - used to be,' help yourself it's a problem for us.'

Saw a red squirrel at the saw mill helping itself to peanuts from the bird feeder. The eastate reintroduced them a while back & loads have been run over but good to see survivors. Apparently they've moved great distances as well - gone over Ullapool way. Some have collars on so they can be tracked.
Also saw two dragon flies that must of hatched in the milder air but hardly seen any this year. Maybe the harsh Winter did them in the lavae that is.

Someone said it's supposed to be -20 degrees next week - let's hope they are well wrong. Can't be happening already.

lostinrates

choille, I think with the planned uptake in pellet boilers, off cuts, wood chips etc is going to be a premium.


I need GOOD EBAY VIBES please ladies and gentle men. I'm planning a bid that is all of next months grocery budget for the house at the current price, can't afford much more than the bidding is at, and its got a few days left. Please keep fingers crossed for me!

choille

LIR - good luck with the bid - anything nice?

Re the wood chip thing - it's the wood is a premium thing now I suppose it's back to hauling dead wood up the gorge!

There's been warnings in the local rag about trading standards warning people about hard sell & seemingly great offers on FIT alternative energy tackle - solar, pellet etc.
Went to the talk thing the other week about wood heating FIT & the gist seemed to be that wood will become permium priced now, but up here it's lying about all over the place really, just need to get a trailer organised & chain saw serviced/fixed.

The wind was incredibly fierce last night so we didn't get a load of sleep as even my weighty Avery scales (yes, I have them in the caravan) were juddering & knocking all night - so an early for me tonight I think.

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

The wind was incredibly fierce last night so we didn't get a load of sleep as even my weighty Avery scales (yes, I have them in the caravan) were juddering & knocking all night - so an early for me tonight I think.

there was weather here last night, fearsome. but the thing that impacted on my sleep was that I got up with the alarm, shocked at how dark it was, and horrified to see my bedside clock (well, bedside ohone which I use as an alarm) said 8 oclock, so pulled on my jeans, raced downstairs, chucked the dogs out into the dark morning, rushed through to get my boots on and boil the kettle for dogs breakfast and my tea to take out to the yard and then saw the clock said 2 am.

we had a power cut last week and I hadn't reset the phones etc.:o:rotfl: