British Shoeboxes Aren't Big Enough for a Jolly Good Xmas

Lotus-eater

Really2 wrote: »

Only problem I see is kids wanting the toilet in the night, when I was a kid you had to trundle down stairs then back up again. That ends up waking you up a bit.

At least with an upstairs one you can pee like a zombie

Unless you are really posh like me and have a full bathroom upstairs and down

NEH

izzybusy23 wrote: »

You are correct. We are having new sofas delivered tomorrow, one large one regular. In order to fit the large into our rented house my bookcase had to go as it was over 3ft wide. I'd rather have the extra room on a sofa than a book case. So that will mean one 3 seater sofa and a DVD tower and end table along one wall.. thats it, can't fit anything else without blocking the doorway.

Well keep you fingers crossed they fit...We've had a nightmare morning as our new 3 seater sofa (money saved up from wedding presents) couldn't fit up the stairs or down the hallway on our middle floor to the lounge (town house layout)....After tears and what on earth do we do we have had to send it back and order the 4 seater which spilits in two and accept that our lounge will be taken up by it...Thankfully it's a rented house and we don't plan on staying here for more than a year and a bit and we decided better to go big and have little lounge for now than get the smaller two seater and end up having to fork out a lot more money on another chair when we move...

We've kept the chair we did buy and we still have the loan sofa after some negiotiating (think the store felt sorry for us) so thankfully we have somewhere for everyone to sit at Christmas..don't know what else we would have done...

Really2

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Unless you are really posh like me and have a full bathroom upstairs and down

Sinks don't count. (I remember getting washed in the old belfast sink as a child.)

That is very posh though, we could squeeze a single shower in the downstairs WC at a push.

Lotus-eater

Really2 wrote: »

Sinks don't count. (I remember getting washed in the old belfast sink as a child.)

You were lucky, we had a rusty bucket.

Really2

Lotus-eater wrote: »

You were lucky, we had a rusty bucket.

See I thought of the other problem of downstairs bathrooms.
They look quiet comfortable to sleep in when very drunk. (not like anything like that as ever happened to myself)

inked

Our first house (new build) had a tiny kitchen and living area, you couldn't fit more than 2 people in the kitchen and we had to keep the dining table under the stairs and pull it out into the middle of the living room to eat.

We had to hunt round for ages for a sofa and armchair that would fit into the small lounge and give us enough room for the dinner table when we needed it.

Our current house (also new build) is completely different, the kitchen / dining area is 24' long and 11' wide and the living room is over 19' long and 11' wide.

We definitely couldn't have stayed in the old house if we wanted to start a family, and I hated having too many people round (couldn't have more than another 2 people round for dinner), We now have friends round all the time and have enough room to start a family.

PasturesNew

inked wrote: »

...We now ... enough room to start a family.

Still using that kitchen table then!

Pobby

Yes I remember the outside lavvy. Complete with Izal. A tin bath hanging off the wall. That would be in the 50`s. I had 2 maiden aunts that lived together in the house they were bought up in. In 1960 the elder aunt bought a new build bungalow for £1,000. I would be only 10 but can recall helping out at digging over the garden.

The bungalow was luxury. Inside toilet and all.

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

You were lucky, we had a rusty bucket.

For much of my childhood I bathed morning and afternoon in just the ocean.

the warm, clear, blue ocean with white sand and colourful fish

I didn't get a bucket!

laurel7172

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

It's also difficult to imagine how it will look with your own furniture in there when the b@st@rd developers put miniature furniture in there. I viewed a show-flat and house across the way and even the kitchen counters were shallower than normal. Dolls houses they were.

You know, that's the first sensible suggestion Ive ever heard as to why my kitchen worktops are 2" lower than normal (it was so much fun getting a dishwasher to fit). It's a good sized kitchen, but all our ceilings are low. Maybe we were the showhouse when the house was new?