gratefulforhelp's austerity measures

viola_brandywine

Love your kitchen setup gratefulforhelp, I think you must have my dream house!

Peonie

You have a lot of (very nice) doors in your kitchen and some lovely panelling. Here are a couple of my initial thoughts.

1. Move your washing machine and dryer into the scullery and open up the washing room and corridor to the back door. You could then get some nice units in that corner to match the rest of the kitchen.

2. Move your washing machine and dryer into the scullery. Move the partition wall between the wash room and the back porch room and block up the wash room door to make a boot room (coats, shoes, a little seat). Blocking up the wash room door will give you another 'return' for more units.

3. Get rid of the pantry, and take down the wall between the scullery and the pantry so you can walk all the way round the fireplace/aga to make a real feature out of it. I love the full height cupboards to the left of the aga. You could have replicas of the cupboards installed where you will have lost the pantry shelves, this way you will have the storage but the shelves will hide it.

At the bottom of your plan the walls go out in steps, what's on the other side of the walls? Is there any way you could remove one of the 'steps'?

Thanks for letting me play.

gratefulforhelp_2

Wow, thanks guys. This is our last house, unless we meet great misfortune.

Courgette wrote: »

a scullary and a pantry and a porch and an Aga. Jealous? Moi? Sounds like my ideal set-up

viola_brandywine wrote: »

Love your kitchen setup gratefulforhelp, I think you must have my dream house!

Peonie wrote: »

You have a lot of (very nice) doors in your kitchen and some lovely panelling. Here are a couple of my initial thoughts.

1. Move your washing machine and dryer into the scullery and open up the washing room and corridor to the back door. You could then get some nice units in that corner to match the rest of the kitchen.

I hadn't thought of moving the wm, great idea.

2. Move your washing machine and dryer into the scullery. Move the partition wall between the wash room and the back porch room and block up the wash room door to make a boot room (coats, shoes, a little seat). Blocking up the wash room door will give you another 'return' for more units.

This is a good idea, but in our family boot room will translate into dumping ground.

3. Get rid of the pantry, and take down the wall between the scullery and the pantry so you can walk all the way round the fireplace/aga to make a real feature out of it. I love the full height cupboards to the left of the aga. You could have replicas of the cupboards installed where you will have lost the pantry shelves, this way you will have the storage but the shelves will hide it.

This would make it easier to get to things as visiting people (and dogs) always stand in the gap to the right of the aga which makes it hard to cook.

At the bottom of your plan the walls go out in steps, what's on the other side of the walls? Is there any way you could remove one of the 'steps'? Um...I'm not sure!!! Will ask builder to bash it and see.

Thanks for letting me play.

Thanks for these very helpful comments. x

I paid a pound for a month's trial of which? so I could check out high chairs, must look at kitchen stuff before it expires.

gratefulforhelp_2

Just read this

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jun/07/doctor-who-matt-smith-new-episodes

The word is they are reducing the frequency of the show as the writer is too busy...!!!!!!? Priorities.

gratefulforhelp_2

Up to 43% on AS marking and 66% on GCSE.

gratefulforhelp_2

Ballet done, had guy round to quote for lining a chimney for another woodburner. Really wet and cold here.

yukkibear

miserable here too

gratefulforhelp_2

Well 71% on GCSE and 40 ish on AS.

Need to get a few jobs done, including in the garden but its raining again.

CathT

gratefulforhelp wrote: »

Well 71% on GCSE and 40 ish on AS.

Need to get a few jobs done, including in the garden but its raining again.

I am sure you live in my holiday destination area! Can you please sort the weather out before July 4th? It's been nice here in Wales the last 2 days but starting to cloud over a bit now

gratefulforhelp_2

Odds are it will be sunny and fab - still school term and DH will be marking *rolls eyes*