Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

Doozergirl

Erm, does anyone live very close to Hatfield/St Albans and hypothetically up for a favour type thing? (runs and hides)

Wheezy_2

SingleSue

Aww poor dog dog....

I have been a naughty girl today, got myself a new handbag (needed one rather than just wanted one, my other one was holding on literally by a thread and would have gone any minute!), well, I was enticed by some sale bags and wanting one which would last longer than a cheap and cheerful one (last one lasted less than 2 months for £10), have gone for a stonky Charlotte Reid one, costing me £25 (down from £45) this one http://www.charlottereidlondon.com/epages/es120259.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/es120259_shop/Products/CHR0849/SubProducts/chr0849-0004 (it looks better in real life to be honest, that picture does not do it justice)

At least I recognised the name from reading the boards here....but didn't actually realise it until after I bought it as I was taken more by the size, price and apparent sturdiness of the bag than anything else.

Feel eek about spending so much on a handbag though!

Wheezy_2

Doozergirl wrote: »

Erm, does anyone live very close to Hatfield/St Albans and hypothetically up for a favour type thing? (runs and hides)

No, I don't live close.....but I'm still curious as to what the favour might be

lostinrates

awww....I'll tell her she has a card and a hug from LydiaJ. She's asleep now.

I'm looking at kitchens I can't afford for inspiration for the future. I'm just having the old kitchen moved over in the first instance but I've been told its good to get an idea for where I want things in the end and as closely as possible to do that in the first instance so that I get a practise run for a few years and any niggles sorted on the final kitchen. (eventually I want my sink on an island, so I wonder how that will work in the ''long term temporary'' kitchen? )

I'd never seen anything like these before

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=corner+drawers&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:*&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=gUocTs6mDcSJhQfLkrXiBw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CC8Q_AUoAQ&biw=1003&bih=535


What a sensible idea. Corner cupbpoards are always the terratory of the underused and long lost gadget and pan.

Wheezy_2

SingleSue wrote: »

Aww poor dog dog....

I was enticed by some sale bags and wanting one which would last longer than a cheap and cheerful one (last one lasted less than 2 months for £10), have gone for a stonky Charlotte Reid one, costing me £25 (down from £45) this one http://www.charlottereidlondon.com/epages/es120259.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/es120259_shop/Products/CHR0849/SubProducts/chr0849-0004

That's a nice bag.

But how can a bag (even a cheapy one) last for less than 2 months? :eek:
Even the Tesco carrier bag I use to carry my lunchbox into work lasts longer than that.

SingleSue

Autistic kids (namely youngest) and cheap handbags do not go together...he has a habit of pulling down on the bag when stressed and we are out plus I think my old one was just very cheaply made and nasty, very very poor quality indeed.

LydiaJ

SingleSue wrote: »

Feel eek about spending so much on a handbag though!

You have to think of things like that in terms of spend/time, not absolute spend. Thus the nasty cheap bag cost £10 for 2 months, which is £5/month. Suppose the new one lasts 10 months. That would be £25 for 10 months = £2.50/month. That makes it half the price of the nasty one. As long as it lasts more than 5 months, it is cheaper per month than the nasty one and you should feel virtuous and money-saving about it.

lostinrates wrote: »

I'd never seen anything like these before

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=corner+drawers&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:*&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=gUocTs6mDcSJhQfLkrXiBw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CC8Q_AUoAQ&biw=1003&bih=535


What a sensible idea. Corner cupbpoards are always the terratory of the underused and long lost gadget and pan.

They look good at first sight, but then I thought, don't they leave a big triangle of wasted space on either side, between the special corner drawers and the ordinary things beside them? Or are the things beside them cupboards of a trapezium shape? In general, things with pointy ends tend to be more difficult to fit things into than things with square corners.

ETA I quite like this sort of thing for a corner cupboard. We had one in the kitchen in my last house but three. But then I was quite happy with the corner cupboard in my last house, where you just reached round into it - one has to keep the only-used-occasionally sort of stuff somewhere, after all. My kitchen here has units down two parallel sides and no corner units of any kind, so I don't have to make a decision about how to deal with corner cupboards here.

I am feeling pleased with myself because I have tidied the conservatory. Up until yesterday morning it was a huge dumping ground for all sorts of stuff I hadn't got round to dealing with yet, and looked frightful. This was particularly regretable because the unorthodox layout of the house means that the front door opens into the conservatory, so the chaos in it was the first thing anyone saw when they came to the house.

It now has four tidy boxes of stuff still needing doing, a huge stack of flattened boxes waiting for the removals people to come and take them away, two chairs, and a freezer. (The freezer will eventually be going in the hall under the boiler, but can't go there until the builder has been back to patch the hole in the laminate floor where the old boiler used to be.) Slowly but surely....

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

eventually I want my sink on an island, so I wonder how that will work in the ''long term temporary'' kitchen? )

If it's an island it can be used for hobbies, studying, paperwork, eating, social events. If you stick a sink in it you've wasted a perfectly good working area for something you'll rarely use.

I have a "fear" of the corners in kitchens. I feel something nasty is lurking there. I had one kitchen where they'd just boxed the whole corner in, so it was unusable and inaccessible - and I used to fear big black mould and nasties might be living there

I've seen quite a number of kitchens in RM recently where they've put the hob in the corner. The wall was parallel to the hob - and I always wonder "so what's in that secret triangle bit that's hidden behind the wall?
Here's one: http://media.rightmove.co.uk/12k/11196/30626693/11196_1882283_IMG_03_0001.jpg
And another: http://media.rightmove.co.uk/34k/33449/18950379/33449_CJA1364_IMG_03_0000_max_620x414.JPG


In a perfect world I'd have a kitchen without L-shaped corner units of any sort.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

If it's an island it can be used for hobbies, studying, paperwork, eating, social events. If you stick a sink in it you've wasted a perfectly good working area for something you'll rarely use.
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I think that's a good point, but I'll hopefully have room for kitchen table too for ''projects'' . I really want the traditional ''under the window' spot as work surface. I think its more likely I'll be looking out of the window while rolling pastry.making pasta, stuffing birds or tossing salads than while washing dishes. (I've been noticing this a lot recently. Feral cat chooses outside the kitchen window as her begging spot to tell me she needs food). I often don't notice her for ages. She plays a sort of grandmother's fottsteps game inbetween times she thinks I've looked up. But really I often only see her when she's so close as to be nearly too close to see!

Also, I don't really fancy the sort of island you sit side by side at. For a start it would be difficult and painful for me to use!

I'm also comprimising with where I put the cooker (back wall, pretty bad for social cooking) because DH really does want the option open later for a range too....and that's best on the side wall. The other side wall has a door in and is darker and I think I'm going to have floor to ceiling cupboards there, with sockets at the back, so that all the '''big toys'' (bread maker etc) can be used in situ and then closed away, clutterless benches and bad back proof. Then the top and bottom shelves can be used for less used stuff and things like bins.

Lydia, thats a good point re cupbpoards. But I still think the awkward extra corner is more reachable than the depths of a corner cupboard.

Anyone live near a fancy kitchen work shop to have a look?:D:D

edit: I also had a look for corner fridges. There is one but it looks a bit clumsy. Besides, dh reckons he ''needs'' an ice dispenser.