Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lostinrates

lostinrates wrote: »

Most of my rooms are regular shapes. But not all...then i would have to add rooms together. It would involve pape and pencil.

i could if i wete giung ti get a pencil, go and get the floor plans.....

Pape? I like the idea there might be papal intersst in my kitchen dimensions:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

michaels

375 square feet for the kitchen but your utility is bigger than ours as ours has one corner out for the downstairs shower room. The pope wouldn't be welcome here though.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

375 square feet for the kitchen but your utility is bigger than ours as ours has one corner out for the downstairs shower room. The pope wouldn't be welcome here though.

I have lost the floor plan now..there is the pantry too. But i was certain from previous discussion yours was bigger.

Mine has a very high ceiling and not sure how i will clean it. I am thinking those eden project hot airbaloon things with a harness. Or a trained marmoset. Or just starting a cobweb collection...

zagubov

I walk the dog down a lane of wooden cottages all smaller than our old house. Lovely to look at, but no room to swing a cat. I think many of our neighbouring countries sell houses by the square metre rather than by the room.

As David Starkey is on telly right now I've realised that he can't be a major poster on the forum at this minute, despite the fact that most posters on other threads don't seem to ever have had a thought that wasn't worth saying out loud or posting.;)

PasturesNew

In measuring my place it's about (14'x16')+(13'x8')+(3'x8') (living/kitchen, bedroom, en-suite). So that's about a total floor area of 16'x22'.

Although the bedroom is currently: Box store, empty box store, bag store, piles of things to keep store, piles of things to dispose of store, assorted things being sorted from parents' house store as well as all the usual storage requirements to be met of shoes, clothes, linens, towels and "stuff"

I've got to get a bike over here... but there is genuinely no space whatsoever to prop it up. And no space outside for it .... nowhere for it.

PasturesNew

If I owned the space I am in and had designed the space, just for me, there's space for everything to fit in. But it's designed by somebody who never has to live here, for a purpose other than somebody living in here.... eg there is no storage, no cupboards and the radiators are in the wrong places.

One simple 18-24" deep, wall to wall, floor to ceiling, cupboard in the bedroom would have the capacity to contain everything.

As for the kitchen - the door's in the wrong place and so are the worktops/units - and for a small kitchen it's imperative to have one good larder cupboard, not tiny cupboards that nothing fits into.

That's what you lose in rented space - you can't have things so they meet your needs and wants. In the cheap seats end of the market, you get what you're given and storage isn't on most landlords' agendas

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

In measuring my place it's about (14'x16')+(13'x8')+(3'x8') (living/kitchen, bedroom, en-suite). So that's about a total floor area of 16'x22'.

Although the bedroom is currently: Box store, empty box store, bag store, piles of things to keep store, piles of things to dispose of store, assorted things being sorted from parents' house store as well as all the usual storage requirements to be met of shoes, clothes, linens, towels and "stuff"

I've got to get a bike over here... but there is genuinely no space whatsoever to prop it up. And no space outside for it .... nowhere for it.

You might like this book I enjoyed: "283 Useful Ideas From Japan"
http://www.amazon.com/Useful-Ideas-Japan-Leonard-Koren/product-reviews/0877014833
from the channel 4 series in the 80s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qKjd0QXQO4

From the country where 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.

When you buy a japanese car you get access to all their car parks in useful places. You buy an imported car? Well good luck finding somewhere to park it.

With their capsule hotels and 100-year mortgages and toilets that diagnose diseases and pavement oxygen vending machines, they're just us in the future.

If we got all brave and well-motivated, did all our homework and work hard.:D

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

If I owned the space I am in and had designed the space, just for me, there's space for everything to fit in. But it's designed by somebody who never has to live here, for a purpose other than somebody living in here.... eg there is no storage, no cupboards and the radiators are in the wrong places.

One simple 18-24" deep, wall to wall, floor to ceiling, cupboard in the bedroom would have the capacity to contain everything.

As for the kitchen - the door's in the wrong place and so are the worktops/units - and for a small kitchen it's imperative to have one good larder cupboard, not tiny cupboards that nothing fits into.

That's what you lose in rented space - you can't have things so they meet your needs and wants. In the cheap seats end of the market, you get what you're given and storage isn't on most landlords' agendas

Pn, i really envy you your planning skills. I have a meeting to discss kitchen fix and really don't have a clue. I have moticed radiators have crept back onto the plan which i had explicitly said i don't want. I guess the floor has changed things and i need to have a look at some radiators and towel rails.

Is it werid to have a towel rail instead of a rad in the utility and possibly kitchen? I was thinking about drying things ion winter and hanging space on them....:o

chewmylegoff

LydiaJ wrote: »

Anyone else got a kid in year 6? It's national offers day today for secondary school places. DS got his first choice - not that we're surprised because we're a long way inside the boundary of the catchment area, but it's nice to have it confirmed.

PS No smutty, rude, suggestive or otherwise bothersome pms here, and I'm happy with that.

I thought catchment areas were being scrapped? I'm sure there was some chat about it under the last govt? Did the policy to scrap catchment areas get scrapped, or am I just talking nonsense?

chewmylegoff

zagubov wrote: »

With their capsule hotels and 100-year mortgages and toilets that diagnose diseases and pavement oxygen vending machines, they're just us in the future.

If we're going to turn into the Japanese does mean we'll get a decent train network?

I suppose we get the downsides as well e.g. Vending machines selling used underwear to deviants?