Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

treliac

lostinrates wrote: »

My mother felt sorry for it, and has started putting in a cracker everyday for it.....

She sounds like my mother!

treliac

LydiaJ wrote: »

I PM'd one to silvercar because she asked for it. I don't think I want to post one on the thread in case people identify it. I'll PM it to you too.

Congratulations from me too Lydia. Any chance of letting me have a look as well?

treliac

vivatifosi wrote: »

I hate Once. All those visible brushstrokes:mad:. It looks like my kiddie poster paint pics from school when I use it. Dad and bro say that its for DIYers only but of course I had to try. That'll teach me.

I got on alright with Once when I used it.... but I think I did it more than once IYSWIM.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I've just asked on the relevant board, but does anyone here know anything you can paint melamine work surface with? I want to make the work surface nice now too....:o

On the basis you didn't get the answer you're looking for, if you're careful with the top, you could investigate using fablon, sticky back plastic.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

On the basis you didn't get the answer you're looking for, if you're careful with the top, you could investigate using fablon, sticky back plastic.

My parents did that with the kitchen table when us kids were little. I think they only had to recover it after years and years. It might work really well on work tops, as long as there aren't too many corners that have been rounded off.

PasturesNew

Blimey you lot have been chattering a lot.... here are some notes:

LydiaJ: catch up ... and overtake! I'm older than you and will be buying something about the size of any shed you decide you need.

LydiaJ: PM me the pics please, I love looking at posh houses. It's either look online or get arrested for peering through people's windows

All: Once paint, luckily I had a friend who was uber-keen on decorating, so she did most of it I recall... but I did do a bit - and the secret seems to be: use a roller and put it on very slowly, it's akin to rolling on a thin layer of plastic really. I had some 'edges' where a room had a corner and the corner had a plastic strip down it, and along there were a couple of 'edges' of the once and it looked like a thin film of plastic ... and if I pulled it, it stretched a bit.

By the sounds of you lot I'm 1000% cleaner than all of you. With me there are no marks, grubby handprints, dog rubbings, manual labourer types, children, or uncareful people whatsoever. I could live in a house for 20 years and it'd still look pretty much the same as when I went in, for marks etc. I work on the basis of being careful in everything I do, in order to minimise work repairing any mess/damage and to minimise the need for anything to ever be replaced.

treliac

LydiaJ wrote: »

I PM'd one to silvercar because she asked for it. I don't think I want to post one on the thread in case people identify it. I'll PM it to you too.

ETA ... and treliac...

It's lovely Lydia and I've pm'd my full comments back to you.

treliac

PasturesNew wrote: »

I could live in a house for 20 years and it'd still look pretty much the same as when I went in.

Except that the rest of the world would have moved on 20 years!

PasturesNew

treliac wrote: »

Except that the rest of the world would have moved on 20 years!

Well, yes, except I don't have the kind of money required to keep up with people.

When I buy a house in the next 1-3 years I expect to be in it 20 years and won't update it, I don't expect to have that sort of money available. I'd just keep things going as they are. So long as it starts with a new kitchen/bathroom they'll still be fine and functional after 20 years.

The kitchen/bathroom here in this house are about 40 years old and they still work

All this ripping out kitchens/bathrooms is a fairly new phenomenon. It used to be a major investment made by somebody with a huge loan, when they were middle aged.

My parents have never had a new kitchen in either of their houses.... and they lived in the last one 25 years and it wasn't new when they moved in. Same with the bathrooms, buy a house/live in it 15+ years/still got the same bathroom and it wasn't new to start with.

PasturesNew

I've seen it now. I couldn't have been taking proper notes because I imagined it to be older/larger, kind of ivy-clad and 1920-1930s style, whereas that looks like a 1985-90 house to me.