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

lostinrates

Incidentally, on food, one of the books I got for Christmas related crisps to poor behaviour, not because of the food content but because of the noise cause while eating. Decibels relating to shown triggers of feelings of anger are lower than the noise in our heads eating crisps. I thought that was really intersting. I remain convinced there is a strong link between what we eat and how we feel and live, but I'd never thought about the noise of a crunch, more the nutrients and impacts on the body of good or inappropriate choices.

lostinrates

I prefer a work top a little too high for me. Except when we emptied the kitchen cupboards when the wall was giving way I hadn't sen the stuff stuffed into the back bottom cupboards since it went in there. I'm considering drawers for the new kitchen, though prefer the look of cupboards. I've seen reasonably good mock cupboard drawers. Looking at better kit hen design I am amazed at the use of space that is so simple and so perfect, better use of the space on the back of doors. I think standard cupboards are too deep, not too shallow...things go to the back and can't be reached.


I am nt sure I want to wait for a kitchen now. I want to bring it forward n the schedule. The idea of having a finished and organised room is very, very tempting!

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

I multi-task, I do the ironing while watching HutH.

My method's best... don't do any ironing. I buy clothes that don't need ironing, I dry clothes so they won''t get creased during drying (often using hangers) .... and if all that fails then the item stays at the back of the cupboard for years until some future point when there is absolutely NO way I could avoid it and that outfit is the only possible one that could be worn, then I iron it badly.

John_Pierpoint

vivatifosi wrote: »

I missed this post the first time so thanks lj for linking back to it. Sorry to hear this doozer. I hear my father and brother having this conversation all the time. Dad is a technical builder. He'll do it right to cost, he's passionate about getting it right, but not the look. My brother is also very technical but has much more of a design eye. He wants everything to look wonderful. He'll say something about the house, could be anything, from putting in a Belfast sink to using marble floor tiles instead of ceramic (for example), my dad will suck the air in through his teeth and say "you won't get your money back for that".

I think a combination of the House Doctor getting rid of all personality and the current recession have a lot to answer for.

I think I've posted this observation before but we used to score MIL (the one who is now in care home) on "why-don't-you's"; she could arrive at noon and by the time we were having lunch she could be well over £30k.
Like local authority care workers, she was well qualified in spending other peoples money - not to mention the chaos in a family home that would be caused by each of her suggestions.

LydiaJ

Doozergirl wrote: »

But I'd turn the dressing room, clearly too small to be a bedroom, into the main bathroom... and the upstairs shower room to storage.

Oooh. My ideas were the same as Doozer's - even if I didn't think of all the things she thought of. Well done me!

PasturesNew wrote: »

My method's best... don't do any ironing. I buy clothes that don't need ironing, I dry clothes so they won''t get creased during drying (often using hangers) .... and if all that fails then the item stays at the back of the cupboard for years until some future point when there is absolutely NO way I could avoid it and that outfit is the only possible one that could be worn, then I iron it badly.

Yup. Me too.

SingleSue

vivatifosi wrote: »

Sue, I think you mentioned youngest wants to be a millionnaire entrepreneur. What does he say when you tell him he will need to interact with people in business? Even if he runs his own business entirely by himself, he'll have to buy supplies from people, find customers that are people, deal with people at the bank, etc.

He thinks of business as being different and can somehow manage to switch his brain to that without too much stress...although he wouldn't like to be in a busy area.

Much of my dealings with him is on a more business like basis...or that is what it feels like anyway! He has a need, I fulfill that need, he goes away settled sort of thing...contact with me is a means to an end or a neccessary evil in his view.

LydiaJ

I am 5'7" and find normal worktops a comfortable height.

Doozergirl

LydiaJ wrote: »

Oooh. My ideas were the same as Doozer's - even if I didn't think of all the things she thought of. Well done me!

I just copied you

lostinrates

If we are talking ironing, I quite like that. And I have my ironing board too high too.

LydiaJ

Doozergirl wrote: »

I just copied you

You're the pro, though. TBH, I think I'm quite good at looking a floor plans and deciding what to do with them. I'm fairly clueless about the softer side of doing a place up - colours and fabrics and stuff.

All I've done so far here along those lines is let my kids choose their own bedroom colours, have my own room yellow (same choice as I made last time I chose the colour for a room, which was my bedroom as a teenager - does that show a lack of imagination?), and the utility room white.

Now we are finally going to have curtain poles I am going to have to put my mind to curtains, which will be interesting. (The previous owners took most of the curtain poles, but did at least leave blinds. The rest of the curtain poles had to be taken down for the replastering, and putting them back up was one of the things the original builder kept not quite getting round to doing.)

lostinrates wrote: »

If we are talking ironing, I quite like that. And I have my ironing board too high too.

Nowadays I rarely iron more than one garment at a time, and that's quite infrequent. Back in the days when LNE and I were together, though, I used to do his work shirts in big batches, and I used to do those in front of the TV, with the ironing board quite high, and a tall stool to sit on.