The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

GDB2222

How to turn a wire coat hanger into a slightly phallic kitchen roll holder.

hjd

GDB2222 wrote: »

How to turn a wire coat hanger into a slightly phallic kitchen roll holder.

Were you very bored today?

GDB2222

hjd wrote: »

Were you very bored today?

We're on holiday! So, time is not very valuable, and I enjoy fiddling with stuff. I also fixed the light in the garage, fixed the bicycle, and went for a bicycle ride.

I did try the local hardware store, and they had a flimsy plastic thingy for almost nothing. But it wouldn't take the large kitchen rolls we use. Plus it didn't have a handy hook for hanging things from.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

You see some strange stuff, looking at houses. Just looked at one that's dropped £10k overnight.

May 2017: For sale, full length garden down to adjoining road, asking £290k. Completed in September at £285k. Perfectly decent/livable.

April 2019, house with a quick makeover and garden barely existing as most has gone for a new plot - and it went back on at £330k, now £320k !



So that's a "free plot" right there, snatched.

Astonishing that the existing owners couldn't see the possibilities! One thing I've learnt is that estate agents won't explain to owners how to maximise the value of their property.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

We're on holiday! So, time is not very valuable, and I enjoy fiddling with stuff. I also fixed the light in the garage, fixed the bicycle, and went for a bicycle ride.

I did try the local hardware store, and they had a flimsy plastic thingy for almost nothing. But it wouldn't take the large kitchen rolls we use. Plus it didn't have a handy hook for hanging things from.

I'd go without.
That's always an option.
Just go without

If I really wanted one I'd go car booting

I've got a marble one, had it over 30 years I think. It sits upright. It was one part of a 3-part pack that was a Xmas present years ago. A paper holder, a cheese board/cutter (long gone/never used) and a utensil jar. Pale grey marble.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Astonishing that the existing owners couldn't see the possibilities! One thing I've learnt is that estate agents won't explain to owners how to maximise the value of their property.

Yes, agents don't ever help owners to improve their house/opportunities, they're just "volume box shifters".

I could instantly see the plot potential in the house... so not sure why the original owners hadn't. Maybe they just wanted something simple and to move... not to split the plot, register the new title, then sit while two bits sold and they needed all their money in one pot then... not some speculative price for the house without the garden and a separate plot.

Developers and chancers aren't buying a "home", so it doesn't impact on them when they take a punt. They don't live in a house while it's being done up. They're not inconvenienced by the upheavals and peaks/troughs of the selling process.

Those houses I see bought at £250k then tarted up for £20-30k and put on the market at £320k ... to languish for several months - nobody had to live through that work, somebody's come along to that house and done it up as their "day job" and gone home to their comfy house/tea every night.

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

How to turn a wire coat hanger into a slightly phallic kitchen roll holder.

Is your kitchen yellow? Does it add to the colour scheme?

I have never seen any reason to have any kitchen roll holder, the roll just stands on the worktop.

GDB2222

Colour scheme? No, we don't have one of those.

The kitchen here is pretty small. Hanging the microwave and the kitchen roll on the wall has trebled the amount of available worktop. There is now room for the chopping board AND a bowl to put whatever one is chopping into. That's really a massive improvement.

ivyleaf

My kitchen roll lives in the cupboard under the sink, but that's very ingenious, GDB :beer:

vivatifosi

Like Pastures I have one of those prong things for my kitchen roll. The only reason for that rather than leaving it on the surface silvercar style is that I am prone to knocking things over, which means you have to chuck it in the bin as the bottom is all soaked (once you've mopped up the beetroot liquid or whatever else I've managed to spill).