Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

lostinrates

Actually on the page of the company that Make the bath they do not have the silver leaf tap.....

So...that might be purshasable separately!!!

Need to find it, NEED that tap.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd have accidents getting out of that as the sides look quite thick. Where I was lodging late last year there was a bath, with a half a tile of width round it ... upon standing up in the bath, my legs are too little to step out of the bath to safety - and in the last few seconds of that reach/stretch I'm in danger of my foot losing grip in the bath, or simply getting it wrong.

You are taller than my mother, who has never had a problem getting out of a bath! I think you are actually taller than everyone in dh's family apart from dh and his brother!

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

But we need 1700 not 1800! 1800 by 800 (or wider) are easier to find I think!

(That is a really ugly bath panel too, but we'll be tiling it in anyway so doesn't matter

Can't you make the bathroom 100mm bigger? Maybe shave a bit off the playroom?

I agree that the end panel is really ugly. But, but, but it's 75% off, so you have to ignore details like it's ugly as sin and the wrong size. Feel the quality.

http://www.serenebathrooms.com/product_info.php?products_id=980

Voila one 1700 x 800 good quality double-ended bath for £342. Depth is 450mm. Is that deep enough?

lostinrates

Just wondering if overpriced girly bath might fit in the en suite.....

Dh wanted a copper bath but I think he'd love this one too. And it's overpriced but not so bad compared to a copper bath and a veritable bargain compared to the amethyst bath........

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

Can't you make the bathroom 100mm bigger? Maybe shave a bit off the playroom?

I agree that the end panel is really ugly.

http://www.serenebathrooms.com/product_info.php?products_id=980

Voila one 1700 x 800 good quality double-ended bath for £342. Depth is 450mm. Is that deep enough?

We can make the bathroom 100mm wider, but its the corridor that suffers (not your playroom). The corridor is already a bit on the pokey rabbit warren side.....a compromise in layout within the confines of the house really! So we're keen to make it not feel too much like Alice falling down a pokey rabbit hole.

That one is already on my short list, its a nice one, huh?

As for dep enough, the deeper the better I think. Long term I don't imagine it will be used that often and when it is should feel luxurious IMO, which with skimping on length is not really easy!

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

You are taller than my mother, who has never had a problem getting out of a bath! I think you are actually taller than everyone in dh's family apart from dh and his brother!

As well as being short, I've got short legs (for a short person)..... and a tad of dyspraxia from my speshulness that means I have to be careful with a lot of coordination stuff... like stepping out of a bath with a wide side Although, also, maybe that bath was especially deep. I've never considered/measured the depth of a bath before.... I didn't even know there were differences until ... right now.

Spirit_2

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Sorry. We do. But she's lovely, and we couldn't do our jobs without her.

She's been with us since Isaac was 3 months old (part-time first, full time later) and he loves her dearly.

That is lovely to hear. We had a nanny for DD after our lovely childminder moved abroad. The nanny was fabulous too...she lived out, was newly married, full of life and a montessori trained teacher...absolutely delightful. Her husband was a gamekeeper and I credit them with DDs earthy approach to the countryside.. We were the envy of other families of day girls at the school DD attended because she was so stable, warm, and bright...and many of those who had nannys/aupairs found them lacking.

I have told you how DD and our childminder had a close bond, and how she became close to us all. When I got home tonight DD had soemthing to show me..it was a keyring photo she has had made of her and 'auntie' at a fort in the middle east last spring. It is a mnth since her funeral and it is all still unreal. OH and I will go to Dubai next month to visit her husband..and break the time before he is back in the UK for the summer.

PasturesNew

What's the room the other end of the corridor for? Would it be feasible to simply leave the wall off .... so you walk through the bathroom to get to the room the other side? Bit weird, but if it's just you/your store room, then you could do that and bang a wall in if you ever sell.

Or install a moving wall....

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

What's the room the other end of the corridor for? Would it be feasible to simply leave the wall off .... so you walk through the bathroom to get to the room the other side? Bit weird, but if it's just you/your store room, then you could do that and bang a wall in if you ever sell.

Or install a moving wall....

It's a corridor to our bedroom.

Privacy for bathroom requisite unfortunately. I feel reluctant in a 'long house' like ours to lose space to a corridor but it really is the best solution we looked at.

Spirit_2

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I think that's a really nice house. Horrible furniture, though, why do all "for sale" properties have such naff sofas, etc?

Very odd to have a lift in a private 3 storey house, though

An Italian who is a connection of Mr S through work is a charming man who invited DD to undertake an internship at a prestigeous organisation where he is a person of influence. He and his wife offered her a home for the duration at their place in town. It is a 'palazzo' with a wing for guests...including their own lift up to the bedrooms. Mr S has stayed there and he said the weirdest bit is stepping outside and being in the midst of tourists photographing the property. The outside of it is on youube and I wish it was mine to show you.

DD declined the opportunity...life was tough at the time but I wish she had had the wearwithall to do it. Grrrr.