Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

Would be GORGEOUS, but wouldn't it cost a fortune?

real copper is at a premium but i think dave meant an iron shaped copper as in washing copper. if thats what he meant then i know what he means ...if not :rotfl:


HOW ODD... I THOUGHT ID LOST THAT SO I RE DID IT....durrrrr

lostinrates

Better days, your garden stain/paint looks very familiar too me! I get sort of snow blind looking at it, ( need to start another wall soon really) but it looks fab.

Alfie, oh........I see, sounds perfect then!

Better_Days

Thanks LIR and Alfie. I hated those black bathroom tiles with a passion and virtually anything would have been an improvement, but I am very pleased with the result. LIR I adore those glass tiles - for the ensuite I wanted some to match these aqua fox towels which I saw on JL website but couldn't find any the right colour and that I could afford!

LIR there was a cottage on the market near here last year which had that paint stain on the window frames and doors - it really looked super with the cottage garden around it. And it is certainly preferably to that ruddy orange that B&Q seem to sell by the ocean load which people paint their fences with.....

choille

BD - I hadn't known about the halogen oven thing. I think I'm very backwards on new stuff. I got a fright going into B&Q the other month - all that lurid wall paper!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I was going to say what about a copper hot water tank, cut up.....


BD your bathroom looks fab it looks so bight now....


Alfie.... good news on the sale of the chair.... hope its the first of many...


Took some pics on my new I phone. so I got to see how to down load them onto the computer now...

Better_Days

choille wrote: »

BD - I hadn't known about the halogen oven thing. I think I'm very backwards on new stuff. I got a fright going into B&Q the other month - all that lurid wall paper!

I hadn't heard of them either until we moved into this house last December and we needed something in a hurry as the built in oven doesn't have a door on it! Found the halogen ovens by accident when browsing ovens online. They make lovely roast potatoes and warm up croissants a treat. There are a couple of thread on halogen ovens on MSE - worth a browse if you are considering one

choille

glad you are well choille, sounds like yr house is coming on..
re combi microwavers.. they are usually quite high wattage. [remember im the EX wattage nerd/geek :rotfl: ] is not the calor gas stove a better option ? friends in surrey get big bomb shape cylinders that seem to last ages for thier cooker.
but you maybe have difficulty getting em delivered ?[/QUOTE]

I don't think they are that highwattage - are they? I don't know diddly sqit about electrickery.

Congrats on the chair sale. I can't believe how cheap things are at auction these days. I viewed one, but didn't stay - can't be cluttering the housebuild any more as it's crambed and it's hard to work round. Prices are way cheap for really nice furniture.

LIR - those coppers are old coppers from wash houses - you can pick them up easily no? You see them lying about at the bottom of crofts. Could you get an old cylinder - a water cylinder & a can opener?

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Would be GORGEOUS, but wouldn't it cost a fortune?

Every old terraced house used to have one in an outshed....

...aeons ago!

But some must've survived.

Edit:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/large-cast-iron-copper-antique-pot-washing-bowl-tub-sink-planter-/291148034678?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Garden_Plants_Pots_Window_Boxes_CV&hash=item43c9c67276

alfie_1

LIR ... i will check out old tank thingy tomorow if i see workman..

choille

Dave - sorry to hear of the stones coming back - very painful things I hear.

Alfie - the calor gas cylinders are pretty heavy things. We do have a calor gas cooker in the caravan. It's very old, but does in here. It doesn't shut properly so I have to prop things against it!

We'll get a gas hob & I did rather fancy an electric oven but we don;t have a high enough electrickery supply, so looking to alternatives at the mo.

Absolutely lashed it down - Monsoon & thunder storms - so much rain it's deafening.