Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

Do you service yours annually regularly

I never touched mine. Never had it serviced, never got round to spraying the runners with polish ... and it never gave me any problem. Having said that I did only own it for about 5 years before selling.

The door took a right hammering from the elements, being coastal and getting the full force of all the winter 80mph Atlantic gales and salty water .....

Inside there's a manual winding handle (although you need a ladder to reach as it's at the top).... "just in case"

Looked at yours - yours is a standard up and over style.... cheap as chips to just replace. Is it broken? Or what? Why replace it when you've got one? Looking at it from the inside, it looks like Heath Robinson gave them a hand ....

Generali

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Sometimes being colour blind is an advantage. I don't mind the kitchen but the rest of the decor would have to go.

Are you colour blind or do you have a pillow case on your head?

michaels

Ours never serviced about 3 years old used at least 2 or 3 times everyday. Could do with a clean! No winding ha dle which means we might be stuck in if it broke or a power cut....

purch

Doozergirl wrote: »

Clearly, this person has confidence in their sense of taste by putting this kitchen in the marketplace.

Look a bit retro to me.

When my Dad put a new kitchen in our house in 1977 the units were exactly that colour.

Doozergirl

lemonjelly wrote: »

doozergirl, serious offer. Want a lift to do some shopping?

AAw!!

:kisses2:

The boy was working in town locally and just went off to current lemonjelly territory in Wolverhampton. I got him to drop me into town before he went.

I have tea and cake and access to the supermarket. If I do a proper shop, I can get a taxi back, but I am so grateful to you! Thanks

Doozergirl

lemonjelly wrote: »

I must admit to liking this cool idea.:o
Do you service yours annually regularly michaels?


Good stuff!

A reliable durable one.
electric is nice, but manual would be more than satisfactory.
Double, for sure.

PN if you look at the pic of the garage, there is a seperate door to the side of the garage door. Not sure if that'll need replacing. Might have to for matching purposes. Dunno if that'll complicate things


I have recently met a fine reliable electrician if required;)

I know an actual garage electrics and security man as well. He just charged one of our clients £425 to supply and fit the gubbins.

I think ebay is great for garage doors. We found a company that did garador for a silly price - something like £350 for a nice double. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they weren't making any money so stopped selling them.

PasturesNew

LJ ... I was having an online poke around your kitchen and I see an uber-annoyance of mine.

One kitchen cupboard is in the corner - I wouldn't be able to reach any of that. Another's in another corner but wider - I'd be able to use about 1/3rd of that. And that's your lot!

If I designed my own house I'd definitely have one big cupboard, ceiling to floor ..... for all food. Open one door and you can see what you've got. Of course, a full walk-in pantry style would be better.....

I did see one couple on HutH who were interior designers and they designed a kitchen that had NO wall cabinets whatsoever, which has always been something I'd choose..... but I've never seen anybody else do it. Obviously it's handy space for putting things - but if the sum of the storage space means you have to rely on it that's when it gets tricky.

Corners are another pet hate of mine - inaccessible corner cupboards, where you can put things you never use as you can't get them out .... or spend way over the odds for some 'innovative' corner storage solution that's not worth the cost to be able to get out the stuff that's at the back of the cupboard. My new kitchen's just got one corner cupboard.... that I plan to leave empty.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

LJ ... I was having an online poke around your kitchen and I see an uber-annoyance of mine.

One kitchen cupboard is in the corner - I wouldn't be able to reach any of that. Another's in another corner but wider - I'd be able to use about 1/3rd of that. And that's your lot!

If I designed my own house I'd definitely have one big cupboard, ceiling to floor ..... for all food. Open one door and you can see what you've got. Of course, a full walk-in pantry style would be better.....

I did see one couple on HutH who were interior designers and they designed a kitchen that had NO wall cabinets whatsoever, which has always been something I'd choose..... but I've never seen anybody else do it. Obviously it's handy space for putting things - but if the sum of the storage space means you have to rely on it that's when it gets tricky.

Corners are another pet hate of mine - inaccessible corner cupboards, where you can put things you never use as you can't get them out .... or spend way over the odds for some 'innovative' corner storage solution that's not worth the cost to be able to get out the stuff that's at the back of the cupboard. My new kitchen's just got one corner cupboard.... that I plan to leave empty.

I have no wall cupboards ( but am having two , well, dresser type things one day) top shelves to be used for things I rarely use, Christmas baking tins, summer picnic stuff. And I'm having a ladder.

I have no corner cabinets. :j

bugslet

Generali wrote: »

Are you colour blind or do you have a pillow case on your head?

I'm with chewie, I don't find that kitchen a total no-no, not my first choice, but there's a lot lot worse. The purple living room - ewwww.

Doozergirl

I've just signed up to Affiliate Windows. Is that the sort of thing you do, PN?

I'm going to blog about lime green kitchens and have a link for people who want to buy them.

Not really, I am going to blog about it, but I'm going to link to a couple of possibly marmite things that I own that are available in the shops.