Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

lostinrates

bugslet wrote: »

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.

A house in the country of the same type as ours will be ( good sized, old, bit of land etc) has been on the market a LONG while. IMO there's is the opposite of ours, from the road I think its less attractive than ours, but in there its just heavenly, no brutish back like ours.

I was reminded looking at the sales details recently ( its sticking I the market and has for a long time) that the interior is a real let down. It has violet carpet. I love purple and am using it in the house a lot, but ......it looks really wrong there, and the carpet looks really , really cheap. The house is not in a low price bracket and I cannot see purple carpet being a big draw. I seem to recall there is one room that is black and whie and purple carpet. Its in the hall way, on the stairs too, beautiful staircase ( I'd love a stair case like that! ) but the wood clashes with the carpet. Its just not good.


It wouldn't put be off buying it, its a choice,thing, but it does rather jar with the outside, and I , who love individuality, found myself thinking.....just put something neutral down, please!

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

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

A ladder'd be an idea... except it'd have to be kept in the shed - so, it wouldn't actually ever get used by me

It's tough as until you're actually in your place with your stuff all out you don't know if it'll fit and where best. I do find cupboards restrictive. e.g. you might open a cupboard and decide it's great for tinned food, then find you can't stack two tins on top of each other in there .... so then it's too small. One good sized cupboard/larder removes all that as you make the space along the ample and unhindered shelves.

I've no Christmas baking tins (never knew anybody had them!). I've little summer picnic stuff - 4 plastic plates ... and I use those for when I'm eating a sandwich or toast.

lemonjelly

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.

There are 2 and a half wall units, as well as the drawers unit, and then finally the 2 corner cupboards that go right back. Room enough for 2-3 years I hope.

Longer term I want to extend the kitchen through the garage, & have the utility area all incorporated.

Doozergirl wrote: »

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.

Of course you know this has been bookmarked

I'm only asking just in case btw. I don't know whether the garage doors actually work!:eek:

lemonjelly

Doozergirl wrote: »

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

After everything you've done, I'd be happy to provide lifts if needed til you get your car back. Just ask!

It'd be an honour to meet/shake your hand/deliver personal thanks too.:)

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

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.

Yes it is. Overall though I've never earnt much. Biggest (once only) income was for a holiday let booking. One of my sites is about a seaside town and I saw the holiday lettings in AW, so I searched to find out where they were, which beaches each was closest to - and created a page for each beach, then a "Where to Stay" section in the post, with a link to the right property for people to book to be close to that beach.

So, £100 for one booking ..... then the organisation changed their website/affiliate programme so I had to remove all the links. That's the biggest bugbear with using any affiliate programs - you sometimes get a random email "remove them now" ... then "you can put them back" ... and it's a lot of faffing about when you've signed for 30 companies and have 5000 posts with 300 different affiliate programmes/links

bugslet

lostinrates wrote: »

It wouldn't put be off buying it, its a choice,thing, but it does rather jar with the outside, and I , who love individuality, found myself thinking.....just put something neutral down, please!

You think they would have cottoned on by now!

lemonjelly wrote: »

It'd be an honour to meet/shake your hand/deliver personal thanks too.:)

I thought you'd met! Somewhat embarrassingly, a good third of my current friends, were first 'met' on the internet. I use friends in the casual sense, thought two have become very close.

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

....

... he said, ordering Cianti....

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

Longer term I want to extend the kitchen through the garage, & have the utility area all incorporated.

I have sat and thought of at least 6 different things for "my house" ... from "could I get permission for a garage?" to conservatory, convert downstairs loo to en-suite and kitchen to Bed3 then build a kitchen/utility out the side, fitting en-suites to both bedrooms, creating a study/bed 3, or even a bed 3.... and then I thought....

Would I really gain anything from any of this? Or would I simply be creating mess/mayhem, at a price, to have a bigger house that I didn't need.....

So I am doing nothing...

Spirit_2

Doozergirl wrote: »

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

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-44210287.html

The whole house is vile IMO.

lemonjelly

bugslet wrote: »

I thought you'd met! Somewhat embarrassingly, a good third of my current friends, were first 'met' on the internet. I use friends in the casual sense, thought two have become very close.

I am still slightly confused as to what to say when asked how I know doozerboy or doozergirl.
Felt a bit odd saying to the electrician "we met online". Sounds odd saying such things of a married lady.:o