Swinging cats in London flats

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

Don't forget you also have to dry your clothes on an airer in this room, so you go to work smelling like a McMuffin.... therefore these properties should be achievable by a single person who has a job at McDonalds.

tbf, you'll likely pop down to the laundrette for a service wash so that you can watch TV rather than spend your evening listening to the washing machine spinning at 1400rpm.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

tbf, you'll likely pop down to the laundrette for a service wash so that you can watch TV rather than spend your evening listening to the washing machine spinning at 1400rpm.

Do they have TVs in laundromats? I've never seen that. There aren't many laundromats these days, except maybe in student areas. I have a washing machine, it takes about 3 days to dry my washing... so on those days I can't cook sausages or curries, unless it's dry, warm and daylight and I can have all the windows wide open.

Bob_the_Saver

What about the poor cats?

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

Do they have TVs in laundromats? I've never seen that. There aren't many laundromats these days, except maybe in student areas. I have a washing machine, it takes about 3 days to dry my washing... so on those days I can't cook sausages or curries, unless it's dry, warm and daylight and I can have all the windows wide open.

no no, i mean you won't want to use the washing machine in your contemporary open plan living space - a room with a washing machine and a TV in it is the domestic equivalent of cyclists using bus lanes.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

no no, i mean you won't want to use the washing machine in your contemporary open plan living space - a room with a washing machine and a TV in it is the domestic equivalent of cyclists using bus lanes.

Ah. Well, washing machines aren't on for that long. If you live alone you walk around naked so aren't getting your clothes dirty. Only have to do washing once a week then.

treliac

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ah. Well, washing machines aren't on for that long. If you live alone you walk around naked so aren't getting your clothes dirty. Only have to do washing once a week then.

You may have to use the shower rather more frequently though.

My main feeling of discomfort about naturism is that you have to seat your bum where everyone else has had theirs.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ah. Well, washing machines aren't on for that long. If you live alone you walk around naked so aren't getting your clothes dirty. Only have to do washing once a week then.

why do you have to live alone for that. I have to admi to a balking moment recently after moving here when walking in to find my mother and husband discussing the news in their underwear, but then I got used to it quickly. we're often undressed here.

treliac we tend to not sit down much undressed I guess:D. we often just have pants on.:o I couldn't walk around with towel: sort of tkes away from the freedom, and wearing clothes would be easier, but we do have throws on the furniture.

One of the, er, ''issues'' here is that we, well, I and DH, are poppin in and out to the animals and or arden and ettin filthy muddy in clothes we wouldn't really want on in the house/near our furniture, so we tend to strip at te door and then when we go out pull the filthy clothes back on.

penguine

LydiaJ wrote: »

An interesting article. Thanks for the link, penguine.

PS Every time I see your username, I wonder how to pronounce it. Should I think of you as "penguin-E" or "pengween"?

I don't know either! I think I only chose it because "penguin" was already taken when I signed up...

penguine

chewmylegoff wrote: »

having looked at a lot of london flats, the problem with all of the new ones (be they conversions or new build) is that it is now de rigeur to put the kitchen and the living room in the same room. this is all very well when you are knocking two normal rooms into one big room, but when the "contemporary open plan living space" is the same size as a normal lounge, the end result is a small pokey flat with a sofa that smells of bacon.

I used to live in a one-room "efficiency apartment" in Seattle. This is less commodious than a studio, because the kitchen is just in the corner of the room instead of in its own alcove. So my kitchen, lounge, and bedroom were all the same room. I think it was about about 12 feet wide by 20 feet long. It did have a large closet though, and a sort of alcove leading towards the bathroom that had enough room for a full-size American fridge.

And the rent was only $325 a month (utilities included!).

Out,_Vile_Jelly

I'm looking forward to making an appointment to look round one of these "stylish new-build" apartments that I walk past every day: http://www.chorus-wimbledon.co.uk/

£285k for a 1 bed. I might offer £70k if I'm feeling generous.