Preparing for Winter V

greenbee

I don’t just work for a Swedish company for the fika... but it helps 😉

Laura_Elsewhere

My ambition is to have nothing on the floor except carpet and furniture-legs...  a long way to go, but I can dream...

greenbee

Laura_Elsewhere said:

My ambition is to have nothing on the floor except carpet and furniture-legs...  a long way to go, but I can dream...

Then you can get a robot hoover ☺️ I’m much tidier since I got one..

shoppingobsessed2020

Thanks @greenbee.  I’ve just asked for the same as what we have now, didn’t realise there was actually a point to the fence having gaps in it.  Learn something new every day

MingVase

I'm a rabid minimalist. My idea house is big rooms covered in deep soft pile carpets and hardly anything else. One huge deep comfy chair, one table (with a laptop onnit lol) and one cat. That's all

greenbee

MingVase said:

I'm a rabid minimalist. My idea house is big rooms covered in deep soft pile carpets and hardly anything else. One huge deep comfy chair, one table (with a laptop onnit lol) and one cat. That's all

No carpets thanks Mar. I like hard floors with the occasional rug. Even in bedrooms - and with a flat weave and no pile. Underfloor heating is permitted though. And most importantly, opening windows. I hate air conditioned hotels with no opening windows. In fact, another bonus in the Nordics is hotels with hard floors and fresh air, however high up you are. 

Nargleblast

VJsmum said:

I've been to sweden a couple of times - fantastic country.  I'm very keen on Fika

I will look up Lagom, nargle - it appeals.  is it quite like konmarie?

As far as I can tell, it's all about everything in moderation, not having mountains of stuff, slowing down, living in the moment and the Fika thing fits in nicely.

Laura_Elsewhere

@greenbee, we plan eventually to build our own home, and underfloor heating, hard floors with occasional rugs and a lot of really good passive ventilation is all definitely part of the plan - but I also want just plain fresh air, I wan to be able to open the windows and feel a breeze! 
We are lucky here, windows front and back of our small flat, and we have made insect-screens so we can have the windows open a lot. I can't understand how people can just have open windows with no screens! We just bought bridal net (much much smaller mesh than normal net) and use white blu-tack to attach them to our uPVC window-frames - dead easy, dead effective! 

Floss

@shoppingobsessed2020, thanks for the BBQ idea...I keep mine by the back door for winter anyway and now I have a good reason to!

MingVase

I keep my windows open all year round as well, dont need insect screens because up here we only get the odd fly or bluebottle. I'd smother in a bedroom with a closed window