Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

PasturesNew

If you're reading this, you survived!

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Talking of food expiry our finset Waitrose pud claims to be best before Apr 10 - what do people think, eat it or bin it?

Finally I suspect there s a good chance I will be doing a max headroom in the new year so if you do need any (non-creative) help FC...

Michaels..what area do you work in? I mean...what sort of jobs are good for you?

re pudding certainly eat it. 8 months is a short time in the life of a Christmas pudding. If you are unwilling to eat it as...if you think it may be dry or something rather than unsafe, is make it into Christmas pudding icecream. However DH ..who loves Christmas pudding is sitting on a hoard he started stashing a few years ago and is happily eating 2008 puddings now. (He buys them in food halls, reduced from big bucks to a couple of quid.)

lostinrates

OK...opinions please

I'm looking at these blueprints and though none are quite right yet they really have thrown up some interesting ideas.


I'm concentrating on downstairs today.

we have quite a few smallish reception rooms. One of the possibilities could be to knock the two west facing rooms into one long but narrow reception room that could, I think, make a good dining hall. we hadn't considered it, partly because of the different ceiling heights. But it would be more convenient for the kitchen and I think possibly better than two small rooms. Now the rooms are a study and a small sitting room we call ''the garden room''. Study could easily be resited into what is now a kitchen (or later into another detached building outside) and the sitting room...well, there is another of those. doing this would also create a situation where all the rooms lead into each other ..better for flow at parties perhaps? what do you guys think...would a long narrow room be a better asset than two smaller rooms where there is plenty of other reception space to get away from other people? Would the change in ceiling heights/feel at either room end bother anyone? we could lose the ''secret dwarf''' room above one end but I'm a bit unwilling too...again....opinions welcome!

edit: following dvesnaves reply roomwidth is: just shy of ten feet/2.9 metres, room lengths are 5.9m and 5 mtres...so knocking through the long narrow room would be just short of eleven metres long and three metres wide...

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

OK...opinions please

I'm looking at these blueprints and though none are quite right yet they really have thrown up some interesting ideas.

....opinions welcome!

A dining hall is OK, but if it's too narrow, it can feel like a corridor to somewhere else, rather than a room in its own right. I think it depends on proportions and whether the furniture impinges on the 'flow space' especially if it's a frequent route elsewhere.

The people who got hold of our bungalow maxed-out on bedooms to the detriment of everything else. We'll be putting our floor plan in front of an architect in a month or two.

You're not going to turn those dwarves out without the statutory notice are you?

tomterm8

I am useless at working these things out... can we have a pretty picture of the house at the moment and what you are planning?

Pasturesnew will probably like this http://www.inkcartridges.uk.com/Remanufactured-HP-300-CC640EE-Black-Original-Description.html .

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

I am useless at working these things out... can we have a pretty picture of the house at the moment and what you are planning?
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I don't have the plans on disc yet, just paper...no way of giving a picture yet. Pretty picture from the outside would be possible but a bit identifying I think and wouldn't help you much with the layout. I'll see if I can get plans on disc next week.

misskool

Santa just dropped by with a kindle! Most pleasing

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

We'll be putting our floor plan in front of an architect in a month or two.

Its been the most enlightening experience ...the architect, and the right one at that. The other thing that has totally changed the way we look at the place have been digital surveys. I thought it was a bit of ponce but was convinced by the architect they would at least help him, but actually they have been amazing.

misskool

Sorry, just reading back.

I woudn't mind a long dining "hall" type room but you would need to fill one end of a space so it doesn't feel too vast. I'm not really a fan of big open spaces because I prefer smaller rooms that can be heated for use. We have 2 smallish rooms (dining and living) which almost everyone in street has knocked through for a long big room but we won't. I can keep the living room (where we spend most of the evening) warmer and the dining room cooler (also useful for plants and things that are overwintered).

Also question of light though, we get enough light in both rooms so we don't need to use too much electricity. Mostly, it's how do you live and how would things fit?

michaels

LIR - I think I am ok at visualising how to use space (the extension to the old house worked out very well and I think the plans I have for the new one will be very good, should they get approved) so I would be happy to look over your plans and give my thoughts - often having someone else's ideas can just help you to realise that your ideas are the best...

lostinrates wrote: »

I don't have the plans on disc yet, just paper...no way of giving a picture yet. Pretty picture from the outside would be possible but a bit identifying I think and wouldn't help you much with the layout. I'll see if I can get plans on disc next week.