Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

silvercar

So family discussion last night on what would we do with a room even longer than the one we had before.

Boys say table tennis table at one end and snooker table at the other with old sofa and beer fridge in the middle.

Turns out one of youngers friends has a room like yours. They have those folding wicker screens that can be taken down or moved around to make the room larger or smaller (or hide junk away).

OH says that, if it has lots of light and the garden down its length, you can make it an outside inside room. So bringing the garden into your home but weather proof. Lots of plants in big pots and furniture that wouldn't be totally out of place in a weatherproof garden. Wicker and those massive outdoor sofas tht no-one would really put in their gardens.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

lir

If you get your floorplans into a format you can send, I would love to see them. I have a bit of a thing about floorplans. .

The house details have the existing floor plans but the ones we've had done you'd love. Its like a 3d image of the house on flat paper. Looking at the room you see things like where the beams are. It shows...to a degree...where floors/ceilings aren't even too.


I need a dopester on hand to photo and upload the details.:o:o

misskool

lostinrates wrote: »

I need a dopester on hand to photo and upload the details.:o:o

Is he about? I need car advice again

michaels

I found myself agreeing with everything you say. I also need to see floorplans and was already extending in my mind anything we looked at (I found the already extended too frustrating as they had all been done 'wrong' to some extent and paying the extended premium for something that you would always be thinking should be laid out differently was just a no go). I also did my plans in Excel (1 square = 1 foot, size the cells to make them square and fit each floor on one screen) and the architect basically drew them up on the official forms for me. Now I just need them to pass at the planning committee....

LydiaJ wrote: »

When I was househunting, I got very irritated with EAs who didn't bother giving them. The house I'm buying was initially put on RM without one. I could see from the description that it was the sort of house I'd be interested in, so I deduced the floorplan. I had a floorplan for another house further along the road that was on the market at the same time - although it was different because the one I'm buying is on the corner and has been turned sideways in some respects. I had the room dimensions. I had photos of several of the rooms, showing the windows and some of the doors. I had the bird's eye photos of the house (this was before street view). I worked out which window belonged to which room by comparing window shapes, and therefore which room went where, and then I used the room dimensions to work out how the house fitted together and made a scale floorplan. I got almost all of it right, too - just the extension bit with the utility room and downstairs loo etc was slightly wrong because there weren't any photos of that bit.

Then there were the floorplans I drew for the extensions I planned on "house 3" and "house 4". I spent ages on them, and felt at the time that even if I didn't end up buying the houses at least I'd had fun with the floor plans. When I showed my builder my plans for several different possibilities for house 4 (which I had drawn entirely from scratch, on the computer but with software that really wasn't designed for doing floorplans), he asked who'd drawn them for me. I said I'd drawn them myself, and was rather chuffed by the look of surprise and respect that came into his eyes.

So I would enjoy looking at yours if you'd be up for that, and I'll try to make some helpful comments if I can think of any.

SingleSue

lostinrates wrote: »

I've seen an iPhone and seen lots of annoyed looking jabbing fingers at iphones. For me book are wonderful enough. I love the smell of them, the feel of them. I know they take up space, but....what more wonderful looking thing is there than rows of book spines, the different colours and heights. The only think I don't like about books are the cost.

I just love the feeling of turning a page, holding the book etc...reading it on a screen is just not the same for me.

As PN says, I am also one for waiting a while (well I was when we were a two income family!) when new technology comes out for it to have upgrades and drops down in price. At times, it was great fun holding the hubby back from buying as he was a see it, want to buy it now sort of bloke.

He keeps asking if I have bought the boys a PS3 yet, in fact he had assumed I had already got one....think his head is somewhere up in the clouds, buying games systems has always been pretty low down my priority list even when I did have the money! If the boys want a games system, they can bally well save up for one themselves....

lostinrates

SingleSue wrote: »

I just love the feeling of turning a page, holding the book etc...reading it on a screen is just not the same for me.

Plus you can read a real book in the bath.:o

treliac

SingleSue wrote: »

Such good news Treliac and a huge relief for you all.

Thank you for your kind thoughts Sue. I hope you and your boys all had a good Christmas. :santa2:

treliac

lostinrates wrote: »

Plus you can read a real book in the bath.:o

If you don't mind climbing out with your skin looking like a wrinkled prune.

RenovationMan

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never seen a Kindle, nor an iphone. Books are good though as you can put your finger on the page where you are, slide anything into the page to remember where you are .... and not look an utter tw4t when you whip out a book to read in a public place

and you get them free from the library. How moneysaving is that!

lostinrates

treliac wrote: »

If you don't mind climbing out with your skin looking like a wrinkled prune.

I know, its dreadful. Thank fully I'm a very quick reader. But a good book, a bright candle or two, a nicely scented bath product and a warm bath and I'm as happy as a pig in clover.

we managed baths of the immersion tank earlier and it was bloody wretched they cooled down instantly and then had to run down stairs in towels to warm and dry by the fire. I've never felt such cold talc as I used today...it was like rubbing oneself with dry snow.

DH is plucking some gamebirds we were gifted and I'm about to head back into the cold. we've done NOTHING but huddle by the fire, snuggle cats and dogs and drink tea/make snacks all day.

Heaven is a choux pastry roll...that didn't make it to a cream puff or profiterole, with a piece of home baked ham (honey, orange and Scotch glazed) and some of misskool's jelly. which is what it will always be called in this house even when I make it this summer.