Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

vivatifosi

Bathroom looks lovely michaels, is it to scale? The reason I ask is that if the bathroom is 6ft wide I'm thinking the shower cubicle is poss 3ft of that which doesn't leave you much legroom in front of toilet, probably ok, but would you get as much as appears from the pic?

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lostinrates wrote: »

oh lydiaj, I hope every one is ok...in ALL ways.

Ditto to LIR's post Lydiaj......car shunts are always horrible things to have....your insurer sounds great though.
Hoping the whiplash doesn't cause her too many probs too.
Your brother sounds great.;)

michaels

Thanks Viva

I was thinking make the shower 800 wide leaves 1000 - toilet is about 650 so leaves about 14 inches to the shower screen - too close?

vivatifosi wrote: »

Bathroom looks lovely michaels, is it to scale? The reason I ask is that if the bathroom is 6ft wide I'm thinking the shower cubicle is poss 3ft of that which doesn't leave you much legroom in front of toilet, probably ok, but would you get as much as appears from the pic?

LydiaJ

Thanks for the support about DD, everyone. This evening she already seems better than this afternoon.

wageslave wrote: »

I am paying hunt-and-hide with court officers at the moment. My husband if trying to serve me with divorce papers and I am in total denial.

I hate the idea of being divorced, it seems such a mucky thing. Wageslave, divorcee.

And yet I detest the man I am quite happy to remain married to.

I need therapy. I am honestly beginning to worry me

Oh wageslave, you are not strange at all. Nobody, but nobody, actually wants to be a divorcee as such, and for people like you (and in a different way, me) who grew up in families where there was a strong belief in the permanence of marriage, it's much much harder.

I hated the idea so badly. I wrestled and wrestled with it for ages, and although I made progress with it, I hadn't really arrived at complete acceptance of it by the time everything changed and I found I wasn't going to be one after all.

When late-nearly-ex died, there were so many people who secretly said to me that although it was awful in so many ways, especially for the children, at least it meant I wouldn't have to get divorced or become a divorcee. Mostly it was the people who were happily married (or had never married) who said it would mean I "wouldn't have to get divorced" and the divorcees who said it would mean I "wouldn't have to be a divorcee", because in their heart of hearts, none of them wanted to be one either.

The divorce process isn't fun, but it's eminently survivable, and one gets through it until finally it's over. Being a divorcee just sucks, though. (Disclaimer, if you are a divorcee reading this and you are just cool with it and don't understand what I'm on about, then please don't take this personally. It's a reflection of what I felt and what lots of other people told me they felt. I accept that there may be people who delight in the "divorcee" label, but I don't know any.)

All the same, wageslave, you will survive this, and you will do amazingly. "Wageslave, single parent" has thrived. "Wageslave, wife who gave up on her husband" has thrived. "Wageslave, separated person" has thrived. I'm sure you didn't want those labels either, but you haven't let them hold you back from building a life for yourself and the brat, and now your two little girls too. "Wageslave, divorcee" will thrive too.

And we are all here as pixels telling you that you matter to us whatever box you have to tick on the "marital status" part of the census, and we still want you just as much as ever.

michaels wrote: »

Getting a bit ahead of myself but laying out bathrooms - how does this look for ensuite?

Looks like a good layout to me, except that I would hang the door the other way round so that it opens against the bath. After all, you don't use the bath unless you are going in there, shutting the door, and staying in there for a while. Whereas you use the basin for brushing teeth and so on. So it's better to have the door opening so that access to the basin etc is unimpeded. But it's up to you, of course, and you'll also have to think about how the door works from the bedroom side.

Oh, and I'm so sorry your hayfever is being so debilitating, and I really hope whatever the plant is that's causing it will hurry up and stop flowering very soon.

vivatifosi

michaels wrote: »

Thanks Viva

I was thinking make the shower 800 wide leaves 1000 - toilet is about 650 so leaves about 14 inches to the shower screen - too close?

Imagine going to the loo and having floorspace slightly bigger than an LP record to stand up, do your bit with toilet paper and fasten your clothing. Is that enough space? Bear in mind that there will be hard surfaces (wall and shower screen) on two sides.

misskool

Evening all.

Lydia: hope DD is better and all of you haven't let it affect you too much.

Michaels: sorry to hear about the hayfever, I haven't had it very badly this year. The bathroom layout looks good. Not sure about the basin (unless it's the master bedroom ensuite), those basins always splash everywhere.

wageslave: big hugs, hope you get your head round it.

Very busy gardening day, and have to be in London tomorrow afternoon for another meeting

This is the tree I dug up today

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vivatifosi wrote: »

Imagine going to the loo and having floorspace slightly bigger than an LP record to stand up, do your bit with toilet paper and fasten your clothing. Is that enough space? Bear in mind that there will be hard surfaces (wall and shower screen) on two sides.

It might work better with the toilet turned through 90 degrees, so it hangs off the right hand wall?

michaels

I agree with you and viva. Problem is I want a bath, dw wants a shower and the bigger we make the bathroom the smaller the bedroom gets. Although we have no plans to sell, having a bathroom that looks posh definitely adds value and a shower over the bath definitely just does not look posh.

GDB2222 wrote: »

It might work better with the toilet turned through 90 degrees, so it hangs off the right hand wall?

Davesnave

On tonight's news, they'd sent out a film crew to a road over the main motorway, where the motorway ends and the holiday traffic then heads on down this way for 50-120 miles, depending which part they're going to .... they expected to say "look at all the caravans, it's the start of the Easter holidays; look at the traffic, the queues... oh my". But it just wasn't there, the roads/traffic looked perfectly normal for a Friday night - no tailbacks, no jams.

Well I did my bit! Took a gamble and skirted Exeter rather than face rush hour, and you're right, it was very 'normal' at the end of the M5.
Met a tourist in the lane I use to cut across to 'Chez Dave' though. Big, new, very black Beemer & specs to match. Not happy to reverse, but 3.5 tonne van trumps that! :rotfl: