KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Floss

Greenbee, congrats on the new room! What style are you thinking of for your wardrobe? 1950s furniture isn't as tall as current, would that suit? I agree about the spare room - I quite look forward to sleeping in ours if I'm ill enough to disturb DH, nice new bed & mattress

GreyQueen

Floss wrote: »

Greenbee, congrats on the new room! What style are you thinking of for your wardrobe? 1950s furniture isn't as tall as current, would that suit? I agree about the spare room - I quite look forward to sleeping in ours if I'm ill enough to disturb DH, nice new bed & mattress

Yes, older wardrobes, even 1930s numbers, loom much less than modern ones.

For example, kid bruv has got a wardrobe of the kind designed for a gentleman 3 or so generations back. It's not much wider than a modern single wardrobe but has two doors. One side has a hanging space, with the rail running front to back rather than side-to-side. The other side has shelves and a couple of small drawers; it was designed to hold a gent's whole range of apparel, with shirts, sweaters, vests, socks, undies, ties and belts on the one side and the hanging stuff on the other.

This kind of thing isn't the fashion, although you could always paint one if you didn't care for the mid-toned wood they come in. They should be source-able pretty cheaply, a couple of tens in many places.

greenbee

GreyQueen wrote: »

Yes, older wardrobes, even 1930s numbers, loom much less than modern ones.

For example, kid bruv has got a wardrobe of the kind designed for a gentleman 3 or so generations back. It's not much wider than a modern single wardrobe but has two doors. One side has a hanging space, with the rail running front to back rather than side-to-side. The other side has shelves and a couple of small drawers; it was designed to hold a gent's whole range of apparel, with shirts, sweaters, vests, socks, undies, ties and belts on the one side and the hanging stuff on the other.

This kind of thing isn't the fashion, although you could always paint one if you didn't care for the mid-toned wood they come in. They should be source-able pretty cheaply, a couple of tens in many places.

That's EXACTLY what I want!

I'm off junk shop shopping this weekend - I've seen a few possibilities on ebay, but I'm reluctant to buy without looking. Plus it needs to be close by as I have to borrow my brother's van to collect it...

They tend to be shorter. Either that or a very narrow one - I've got a full height space that's about 80cm wide. And I need to check depths as well.

GoingToDoIt

A few items sold on the bay. Finally put my side table back in it's original spot in the living room, with my nice lamp on it. They had been cluttering up the bedroom. Table had been a bit wobbly, is an ike@ one, so used my no more n@ils to glue it together. It's been drying out with the drawer separate for two days (and getting in my way). Looks very nice now! Put all my sewing bits in that drawer so they are easy to access.

I decided to kondo the washing up bowl, it needed binning it was really old snd manky. I'm finding it much easier without it, funny enough. I'm also washing up more regularly. I had a tendency of leaving it full of water, ditching dirty stuff in it, then dreading having to tip it all out and wash it.

I need to revisit a few areas especially in the bedroom for toiletries/holiday stuff, they are not quite working and need proper folding and storage.

Floss

Grey Queen & Greenbee my DHs wardrobe is like that, it has one half with a full drop rail, the other half has a half drop rail, 2 shelves and 2 drawers. It was my dads and DH loves it

greenbee

It's not fair! I want one ...

(I'd better find my tape measure and check the space!)

MMF007

I HATE washing up bowls - no matter what you do they get water whenever you use the sink and blimey it's horrid to find cold dirty water with pots 'soaking in' them and you always have to empty them to start using them, bleh.

I bought a sink protector that just keeps items off the bottom so no scratching of sink and it stops things clunking when you put them in. It's by Joseph Joseph, from Lakeland but available elsewhere. Amazingly it doesn't trap detritus although I do up-turn it every so often and clean it. I know this is r e a l l y sad but I do love it

*shuffles off to get a life*

M

greenbee

Got the tape measure out ... Either needs to be 75cm wide or less, or 150 cm high or less. And ideally no more than 45cm deep, otherwise it starts to feel a bit crowded (the small CoD is a bit deep... I might see whether my parents have a narrow one they might be prepared to part with...)

Floss

What about a tallboy? Sort of a small gents wardrobe?

GreyQueen

Happy wardrobe-hunting, greenbee.

My brother's wardrobe is, from memory, a fraction taller than my 1.77m height but I am sure there are a variety of heights. Good luck with The Quest. I've often thought I'd like one of those myself but have nowhere to put one. Bro's wardrobe even has wonderful little bakelite plates on the shelves saying things like Shirts and Handkerchiefs. Love it.;)

MMF007, I am intruigued by the sink protector and think I may investigate this further. I have a smallish stainless steel sink, just a fraction bigger than the rectangular Addis bowl sitting in it. Like many, I suspect, I can have a bad habit of leaving things to soak and then encountering the 'orrible bowl of greasy cold water later on.:(

Plus, you end up with more surfaces to clean (the bowl, inside and out, and the sink itself) and the bowl has to go somewhere when you need to use the sink, and there is nowhere for me other than the kitchen counter, which is small and very much needed for other things.

My bowl is over 10 years old and heading towards the end of its life but I hadn't thought of doing away with one altogether because of concerns about scratching up the steel sink. I rent, and I wouldn't want to trash the fixtures and fittings. I'll check this protector thing out and see if I think it'd be suitable for me.

ETA; MMF007, just scouting on LLand's website and can a few sink protector mats. Would you very much mind indicating if you have one of those and which one?