Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

silvercar

A friend has a corner fridge. She says the storage space is bigger but you do get inaccessible corners.

For corner cupboards, I like the shelves that swing out on clever hinges, though that blocks up space deep within that isn't on the moving shelves.

silvercar

Poor dog-dog. A friend was telling me about antibiotic powder that you can get abroad for skin problems. In this country if you get open skin that has gone yucky you get dressings and then antibiotic tablets if it goes septic. Abroad with a similar injury and the initial treatment is to cover the open would with antibiotic powder to prevent an infection getting hold.

Don't know if the same is available for dogs.

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Really? Never? How come?

I've just never known people that had people round for meals (aka dinner parties), often people I knew didn't even have their own place (living in garages/bedsits/with parents). I've just never managed to be able to afford the sort of friends who deserve me

PasturesNew

I dislike wall cabinets, I can't reach into them. My perfect kitchen would have some great open worktop spaces and a bl00dy good larder. I'd rather have pan drawers than cupboards in the bases too.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

Poor dog-dog. A friend was telling me about antibiotic powder that you can get abroad for skin problems. In this country if you get open skin that has gone yucky you get dressings and then antibiotic tablets if it goes septic. Abroad with a similar injury and the initial treatment is to cover the open would with antibiotic powder to prevent an infection getting hold.

Don't know if the same is available for dogs.

there is antibiotic powder. The problem here is the splint and dressing required for the break. It has to be on for the break, and yet the abrasion being caused by it is risking now making an equally serious problem. Two weeks she might cope...though once the skin is broken in so many places we're getting into difficult terratory. I think if it were a week or two untill it came off I'd be less worried, but I just can't see this working for the same time again. Once the skin breaks the abrasions can get bigger pretty rapidly.

I think I'll call the surgeon for some advice tomorrow. I don't really see an easy solution though. I'm fairly sure she doesn't move much at night (when I'm with her or when she used to sleep upstairs she rarely even turns over in her sleep!). Daytime I'm trying to think of solutions for. If it were winter it would be easier, she could be in the car, which she loves. This time of year its very hard. Also trying to consider the other one's needs yet manage jealousy between them. I don't really feel keeping them in one room for a month with a few wee breaks a day is a solution that ranks highly for welfare, but its the answer I keep coming back to.

LydiaJ

I am contemplating doing something about the open-plan-ness of my kitchen. At one end there is a door into the playroom - which is fine. At the other end there is an open archway into the hall. From the hall there is a doorway (without a door in it) into the dining room, which has the stairs in it.

It's fine most of the time, but if I cook anything with a distinctive smell, then the whole house smells of it, including the whole of upstairs. I'm used to kitchens where you can shut the door if you're cooking food with a smell, and I don't like having the smell go up to the bedrooms. So I'm contemplating my options...

I could put a door in the existing doorway between the hall and dining room. However, there's no orientation in which it could be put without obstructing something.

I could change the archway back into a doorway and put a door in it, or double doors, or something. Ideally I'd like double doors that would fold right back out of the way, ie rotate 180 degrees about the hinge so as to lie along the walls either side of the doorway, like shutters. Is that possible? I imagine it would be an advantage to be creating a doorway rather than using an existing one already designed for a standard door.This would be expensive. I can't afford to do it now, but could possibly do it if and when I get the compensation for late-nearly-ex's accident - although that could be years away.

In the meantime, perhaps I could put a curtain across the archway. It would be quick and easy to put up, and also quick and easy to get rid of if I decided I didn't like it.

I also have ideas for knocking down the narrow part of the conservatory - the bit where the front door is - and rebuilding it as a proper wall and roof (but in exactly the same place) and knocking through to make the hall bigger, so that you come straight into the hall when you come through the front door instead of going into the conservatory and back on yourself. However, I rather suspect that planning department would say no. They're a bit "computer says no" about any development that takes the wall line closer to the street. So if they didn't let me do that, perhaps I could wall off the conservatory at the corner anyway, and just put a door through where I would ideally like to knock the whole wall through. But then the hall would be all doors and doorways and archways and I'd have no wall space to put coat hooks on. So perhaps not. Those a pipe dreams for the distant future when I have some more money to spend, anyway.

Link to the floor plans available on request by PM.

Ideas anyone?

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Ideally I'd like double doors that would fold right back out of the way, ie rotate 180 degrees about the hinge so as to lie along the walls either side of the doorway, like shutters. Is that possible? ?

Bifold doors/door?

We have some (which are hideous but will be one day replaced with attractive ones) between ''sitting room'' or ''morning room'' and what will be ''dining hall''. They are very useful. Right now I'm in sitting room with the doors open so dogs feel with me but are not with me (atm that room is their ''bedroom'').

silvercar

Ideally I'd like double doors that would fold right back out of the way, ie rotate 180 degrees about the hinge so as to lie along the walls either side of the doorway, like shutters. Is that possible? ?

Any reason why you can't have sliding doors? Do you have enough wall space either side of the door for the doors to completely open?

Curtains could (a) look naff and (b) retain the odour of smelly food.

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Is it sturdy? Does she like it.

Firs the bats, then the fridge...I might turn into your mother when I'm grown up.

I was thinking something similar when I read about Dog-Dog - and I mean it entirely as a compliment, my mother's wonderful.

Polly, my parents' border collie, had to have a leg amputated after she developed bone cancer at the age of 9. She ran around nearly as fast on 3 legs for another 18 months, until it spread.

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

missed this till NDG linked it.


I spend more than fifteen minutes cooking. Some times of the year (jam making/juicing/) its all the day.

Cakes, sloe gin, jelly......