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

PasturesNew

Just looked at the house I saw for sale while out/about. Within budget, "almost ideal enough to view", then I hit google streetview.... 4 doors along, 4-5 boys aged 3-6 with a football standing outside their open door on the pavement, by the parked cars....

Yeah, right.... give that a miss then!

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just looked at the house I saw for sale while out/about. Within budget, "almost ideal enough to view", then I hit google streetview.... 4 doors along, 4-5 boys aged 3-6 with a football standing outside their open door on the pavement, by the parked cars....

Yeah, right.... give that a miss then!

How old was that streetview, though?

The one showing my house still shows a very nicely tended and weed-free front garden, with flowers in full bloom!
It hasn't been weedfree for a few years!

Those kids could be at the slug on the couch stage now!

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

How old was that streetview, though?

The one showing my house still shows a very nicely tended and weed-free front garden, with flowers in full bloom!
It hasn't been weedfree for a few years!

Those kids could be at the slug on the couch stage now!

lol/slug. Dunno how old it was, but the house itself had some parking issues - and the house wasn't "all I'd dreamt of, or close", so it was on the C List before I saw them....

chris_m

silvercar wrote: »

You can get clever corner cupboard fittings to maintain access eg this

Trying to get my head around how that works - the only thing I can think of is that the LH rack slides back into the cupboard, then the whole assembly slides left to allow the RH rack to slide back too.

Dad's kitchen had a neat turntable arrangement in a corner cupboard, but it did also have a half door which opened by more than 90 degrees on each face of the corner.

Pyxis

It always annoys me that there is so much wasted space under kitchen cupboards, and on top of them.

If I knew someone with the skills, I'd get them to make me roll-out 'drawers' on castors under the cabinets, with fronts made from chopping up the kick-board. They would be useful for things you don't use very often, so it wouldn't matter if they got a bit dusty down there.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

It always annoys me that there is so much wasted space under kitchen cupboards, and on top of them.

If I knew someone with the skills, I'd get them to make me roll-out 'drawers' on castors under the cabinets, with fronts made from chopping up the kick-board. They would be useful for things you don't use very often, so it wouldn't matter if they got a bit dusty down there.

You can buy those .... although probably pricier than you'd like

My parents had a 3-door-wide base unit, with three doors on the front, but when you opened any of them you could see/move the entire contents. Nowadays it seems it's all single units... which means it's difficult to store "like with like" efficiently and you get most things similar, then have a couple of leftover items you have to bung in another cupboard.

My parents had a triple sink unit like this: https://trevorhowsam.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/IMG_4897-600x450.jpg - and an identical base unit with a worktop on it. That site says they're just over 62" each (1.59m).

Single units are simply rubbish.... especially as a lot of them are even slimline singles!

Today's kitchen had: 1 base cupboard, under the boiler, because the two items were in one ceiling to floor cupboard.

Two corner glory holes. Two slimline base units.
1 narrow set of four small drawers.

On the wall there were cupboards, but I dislike those as I can't reach and you can't put heavy stuff in in case they fall off the wall at some future point (happens more than you think).

zagubov

chris_m wrote: »

I would hazard a guess that it's Sim City (for those who remember that) on steroids

I remember that! My computer ran Windows 3 and I had to load two vital files (config.sys and autoexec.bat) to run the game.
I probably had to type PARK to stop the hard drive afterwards.:D

chris_m

zagubov wrote: »

I probably had to type PARK to stop the hard drive afterwards.:D

Good heavens, I'd forgotten about that little gem.

And on the subject of gems, that reminds me of my first DTP software, Timeworks DTP which used the GEM Desktop to handle the graphics. I initially had it running on a PC with no hard drive, just 2 3.5" floppy drives. The software was on several disks and, depending what you wanted to do, prompted you to insert whichever disk it wanted into whichever drive it said.

I later upgraded to a PC with a hard drive, all of 42Mb which had to be partitioned because DOS at that time couldn't cope with more then 32Mb. At least Timeworks ran faster.

Happy days

zagubov

Pyxis wrote: »

It always annoys me that there is so much wasted space under kitchen cupboards, and on top of them.

If I knew someone with the skills, I'd get them to make me roll-out 'drawers' on castors under the cabinets, with fronts made from chopping up the kick-board. They would be useful for things you don't use very often, so it wouldn't matter if they got a bit dusty down there.

On another thread we were enjoying looking at this mall but cunningly-laid out Paris maisonette.. Pretty much using all available storage space as efficiently as possible without resorting to movable walls!

Got to say the Paris home isn't perfect though- a translucent shower? It should swap places with the bedroom. Still what an efficient use of space!

GDB2222

I managed to trip over a BT manhole cover, and I now have 7 grazes or bruises as a result. I even managed to graze the back of my head somehow. I walk that route almost every day, so why was today the day I tripped?