Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

sss555s

Anyone else enjoying shameless?

PasturesNew

sss555s wrote: »

Anyone else enjoying shameless?

I've got Big Meets Bigger on (20). Fat people spend time with the super obese to scare them into losing weight.

vivatifosi

sss555s wrote: »

Anyone else enjoying shameless?

I can't stand Shameless. Sorry...

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

In my perfect kitchen there'd just be a nice clear larder in the corner of at least 4' square so everything can take up as much/little room as it needs, with all similar items having room to be together and accessible ... without constaints

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Sadly I fantasised about a larder for years and had one built last year. I love it. Get over excited about stores of tooth paste, loo rolls, tinned tomatoes, Jars of ..you name it, HM Sloe Gin, beers, kitchen foil...

I know it's dull but I am seeking opportunities to drone on about the contents as folk did about house prices and school fees (before the bankers spoilt everything), post photos as some people do of their children etc (people I know post photo's of their 4 legged friends.

PN...apologies..you mentioned larder so to the obsessed you were extending an invitation.

silvercar

Doozergirl wrote: »

Even built in ones! They're not really built in. Only ovens. And even then you can just pull them out.

I had a built on hob in the old place, built in to the worktop.

Doozergirl wrote: »

90cm is standard. 720mm on the unit and 150mm of plinth/legs. The rest depends on your worktops. You can make the legs shorter, trim plinth or just have fancy legs and no plinth, but you won't necessarily be able to fit appliances underneath them.

The old place had lower worktops because the previous owner was short. Very annoying to me.

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

Sadly I fantasised about a larder for years and had one built last year. I love it. Get over excited about stores of tooth paste, loo rolls, tinned tomatoes, Jars of ..you name it, HM Sloe Gin, beers, kitchen foil...

I know it's dull but I am seeking opportunities to drone on about the contents as folk did about house prices and school fees (before the bankers spoilt everything), post photos as some people do of their children etc (people I know post photo's of their 4 legged friends.

PN...apologies..you mentioned larder so to the obsessed you were extending an invitation.

Need photos

Have you started a thread in Old Style about it, invite photos.... get Larder Envy going.... then sit back and watch them fight

treliac

PasturesNew wrote: »

All this new-fangled built in business .... I find a bit scarey - and, it must be complex to try to replace stuff 10-20-30 years down the line.

Not many appliances last as long as even the first of those numbers! In my experience they're primed to pack up as soon as the parts warranty expires!

PasturesNew

treliac wrote: »

Not many appliances last as long as even the first of those numbers! In my experience they're primed to pack up as soon as the parts warranty expires!

I remember my mum getting her first new electric cooker, it must have been in 1966. She got rid of it when they sold the house and put everything into storage, they probably left it in the house they sold, it was 30 years old and still worked/looked fine. The house they bought had a much older/grottier cooker in it and I had that lugged out last month .... they'd used that inherited cooker for over 15 years. Sad really .... mum deserved a new one again

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

Well, here's one just for you. A top developer's tip on corner loo placement:
http://media.rightmove.co.uk/6k/5912/32712877/5912_100198001039_IMG_09_0000_max_620x414.jpg

Doozergirl wrote: »

haha! :rotfl:

Total morons :wall:

Well, I agree it looks completely loopy. However, when I try to work out a sensible way to fit a loo, basin and shower into such an incredibly narrow space with access only at one end, I have to admit I can't think of anything better, so I think I see why they did it that way. How would you do it Doozer, if you really wanted a shower-room and that was the only space you'd got? Or would you knock through some walls or something to make sure that wasn't the only space you'd got?

Doozergirl

LydiaJ wrote: »

Well, I agree it looks completely loopy. However, when I try to work out a sensible way to fit a loo, basin and shower into such an incredibly narrow space with access only at one end, I have to admit I can't think of anything better, so I think I see why they did it that way. How would you do it Doozer, if you really wanted a shower-room and that was the only space you'd got? Or would you knock through some walls or something to make sure that wasn't the only space you'd got?

I'd make sure the space was right to start off with. If the door was in the middle, you'd easily get access to a toilet on one side, shower on the other. We've done it countless times.

But, as a developer, if you don't do it and you plonk a bog in the middle of the room, you make more money.

I've absolutely had enough of it all right now, I don't have the energy to put into it when you see people churning out bog standard or substandard stuff, which clearly means I'm in the wrong job. I'd rather H go off and work for people who care about their own houses than ever dream of trying to hold a straight face selling a stripped out, pasted over cheap magnolia and beige box.

I've totally lost the desire. People have no idea what houses look like behind the plasterwork, nor do they particularly care at the moment, as long as it's cheap.