The "have a look at this!" thread II

glasgowdan

I doubt it! Renovations can easily go too far and be too personalised. We made an offer on that house above but budgeted for a complete new kitchen!

lisa110rry

How dare "someone's daughter", unless her mother was Her Majesty, speak back to you like that in your home. Clip round the ear called for (by the mother of course, not you).

vansboy wrote: »

TOTALLY agree on no shoes...when I mentioned it to someones daughters, the answer is 'my shoes are clean...'

Yep, thats how I'd like the floors to remain, as well!!

VB

robatwork

Davesnave wrote: »

A bit less ergonomic in our bungalow, though.

Do you think the upstairs of an average new house could take the thrashing a Miele with an unbalanced load might give it?

Not while we continue to make our houses out of papier mache and cardboard, no.

zagubov

robatwork wrote: »

Not while we continue to make our houses out of papier mache and cardboard, no.

Staggering isn't it, how compared with Europe we pay more for shoddier rabbit hutches to live in and talk about how they're increasing in value.

We really mean they're costlier and becoming less value for money.

moneyistooshorttomention

robatwork wrote: »

Not while we continue to make our houses out of papier mache and cardboard, no.

Well - my experience was that I put my washing machine upstairs for some while in my last house (ie in the bathroom). It was a modern era extension - if Victorian house basically.

The thought literally never crossed my mind as to whether the house would "stand up to it". I just expected it to do so. I gathered it was commonplace for Continentals to do this on the one hand. We have to have washing machines upstairs if we live in flats and maisonettes (unless they are ground floor). So <shrugs>

zagubov

mozza78 wrote: »

Yeah there's a lot of Japanese ideas about the home that just make a lot more sense although they can seem strange at first. .........
Lots of other things that I will probably try to incoporate in my house/day to day life when I eventually move back to UK - rice cooker, heated toilet, controlled bath, tatami room

I read some of these ideas in a book 283 Useful Ideas From Japan ages ago.
They had loads of ideas about buildings and the built environment. They slide cars in drawers under houses, have turntables to turn buses round and special lifts to stack cars in multi -story car parks.

Petrol stations where the pumps are above the cars as there's no floor space for them.

With their capsule hotels and 100-year mortgages and toilets that diagnose diseases and pavement oxygen vending machines, must feel like living in a real-life version of the jetsons!

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Well - my experience was that I put my washing machine upstairs for some while in my last house (ie in the bathroom). It was a modern era extension - if Victorian house basically.

The thought literally never crossed my mind as to whether the house would "stand up to it". I just expected it to do so. I gathered it was commonplace for Continentals to do this on the one hand. We have to have washing machines upstairs if we live in flats and maisonettes (unless they are ground floor). So <shrugs>

My question was tongue-in-cheek and mentioned a particularly heavy brand of washing machine, which contains more than the average lump of concrete.

I didn't really expect a serious answer! :rotfl:

cloo

We're planning to turn part of our bathroom into a laundry cupboard - way more sense to have it upstairs. Plus kitchen will be fairly open to reception room once we've done building work, so won't want the noise.

Lazarus_Blackstar

barbiedoll wrote: »

Check out the kitchen/diner...delusions of grandeur! (Not that the rest is any more modest....)

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-43702995.html

I'm more worried about the face in the microwave!

Davesnave

Lazarus_Blackstar wrote: »

I'm more worried about the face in the microwave!

That's scary! :eek:



Or is it just a youngster in a highchair? :question: