Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

Davesnave

I am not talking kitchens, but I think I'm going off the shiny German ones now.

Butler sinks and wooden draining boards are nice in magazines, but they are the devil's combination for dirt traps and bug hidey-holes, all made worse in country houses by one's inability to splurge bleach around generously, without fear of injuring the wildlife in the septic tank.

choille

lostinrates wrote: »

No, I agree with with you absolutely. Aesthetically much better.

LOVE the idea of a whale skeleton. Sigh. Thank you for something stunning to think about, god bless your cabin fever!


Only thing with hanging something up in a kitchen is while it Looks great its always hard to clean. Grease and dust get everywhere. Then a bit of cat hair or dog hair.....:o


Ultimately I'm having nothing out at all when I get my finished kitchen. Its just going to be blank panelled walls and utter austerity broken only the lights and the art. When I have chosen them :rotfl:

I do so admire people who are minimalists.

I'm such a hoarder I'm up to waist height in clutter in the caravan.
It's warmer that way...especially if you drop a match!

I do rather admire those sleek, glossy floor to ceiling units where all you can see is your reflection, no handles even that would spoil the line....but you have to keep to it or you ruin the look. Even a newspaper left out would jigger it completely. It's too OCD for my slovenly ways.

Cograts on the job Alex - hope it's a good one.

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

I do so admire people who are minimalists.

I'm such a hoarder I'm up to waist height in clutter in the caravan.
It's warmer that way...especially if you drop a match!

I do rather admire those sleek, glossy floor to ceiling units where all you can see is your reflection, no handles even that would spoil the line....but you have to keep to it or you ruin the look. Even a newspaper left out would jigger it completely. It's too OCD for my slovenly ways.

Cograts on the job Alex - hope it's a good one.

We hoard too...which is why I want a clean line kitchen.

The 'eating, sitting end will no doubt be cluttery, but I want it to feel like a room in which we cook as well, which, in effect it is. So everything will go behind these amazing old looking doors and then pullout for me to use. The point is really to AVOID clutter and stop having to clean so much, lol. Also, because I don't know how much longer I'll be mobile for I want units where the gadgets will slide out and be useable easlly, but can be shoved away without being cleaned if people come :rotfl:

So on that side I have LOADS of sockets up the wall in preparation

In our tempers art kitchen we have only the 'faux island ' surface (and alter, chest of drawers and dishwasher top and a single bench top.

Its reduce clutter immense lu and I can clean the kitchen for guests coming from a meal in hardly anytime. Resident parent is the on
Y resister. :mad:

On the eating end stuff piles up arou d the fire place, on the table and sofa and makes it feel like a home.

alfie_1

CLUTTER....HOARDING.... IM QUEEN OF

i dont have an excuse

i get given...i hoard it.... until i/someone needs it.

if i moved :eek:

choille

I am rather glad I bought that massive cupboard - which I will paint. That will hold a load of stuff & be handy. I may even have sockets into it for a microwave - which I've never owned one - I'm getting modren as they say MOD - ren. I do draw the line at frozen chips though.

Sockets up the wall are compulsary here now... I think. Much more sensible for everyone.

There's a very gorgeous mansion house near here that was taken over by someone rather famous. They ripped out an expensive, but old fitted kitchen where all the upper worktop area had louvres - like an old fashioned knee hole desk, and they could just slide them down streamlining the whole kitchen & hiding everything that was sitting out - incredible and all beautifully done - never seen anything like that before. All skipped over a decade ago.

I like those oblong brick shaped tiles.

lostinrates

Daydreamers who are old stylers too might fancy giving someone advice. I've tried directing here but the person is resistant and that's fine. The poster would like to buy land, live ion a caravan then build a tree house and live off the land and off grid and wants experience and opinions, of self sufficiency. (I suspect I wasn't upbeat enough)

rhiwfield

Well, back after a mammoth buying spree, time will tell whether we got it right.

Now, among very many other oddities, I seem to be the proud owner of a shiny motorized disco ball :eek: (and some rather more tasteful vintage wall light fittings)

Two cars full of stuff yet to be unloaded, treasures to be investigated.

I don't hoard stuff, its just a temporary blockage before I sell it :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

Daydreamers who are old stylers too might fancy giving someone advice. I've tried directing here but the person is resistant and that's fine. The poster would like to buy land, live ion a caravan then build a tree house and live off the land and off grid and wants experience and opinions, of self sufficiency. (I suspect I wasn't upbeat enough)

funnily enough its "the tree house" that would be the biggest problem here in NFNP. even kids ones here have fell foul of the bigwigs...

alfie_1

rhiwfield wrote: »

Well, back after a mammoth buying spree, time will tell whether we got it right.

Now, among very many other oddities, I seem to be the proud owner of a shiny motorized disco ball :eek: (and some rather more tasteful vintage wall light fittings)

Two cars full of stuff yet to be unloaded, treasures to be investigated.

I don't hoard stuff, its just a temporary blockage before I sell it :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

thing is you have crossed over the " i buy what sells not what i like" fence... im only looking at the fence still :rotfl:

ukmaggie45

alfie_1 wrote: »

CLUTTER....HOARDING.... IM QUEEN OF

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if i moved :eek:

Me too Alfie, and I have a room back at old home that only I can tackle - it's more or less floor to ceiling! :eek: Next time I go I'll take a photo so you can relax in the knowledge that you're not the only one! :rotfl: :beer: