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Karmacat wrote: »

Thank you! Haven't done the pinterest thing yet, even here Christmas preps are taking up a bit of time, but I will, I love it.

Ah, Pinterest:j. Guaranteed to steal hours of your life:eek:. Been there, done that so many times:o. The enticing photos and one fascinating link leading to another means I could happily get completely lost in a world of my own on there discovering things about interests I never knew I had.


I know you advised beanielou to step away from the floor tiles. I should step away from Pinterest:rotfl:

greent

Ok - clarifying my remark about polishing granite - by polish I mean wipe over with a damp microfibre cloth and then dry with another microfibre cloth - no cleaning products involved (except maybe a little w-u-l from a sink full of water run for dishes) So a sort of water-on/ water-off polish. My granite is black (nero assoluto) with just an occasional sparkle so shows fingerprints, smudges etc. I also have a run of granite along one wall 5m long, plus the rest of the worksurfaces elsewhere in the kitchen, so even just water on/ water off 'polishing' takes enough time

Hidden drawers - I have one above my bin - so you open the (full unit height) drawer to pull out the bin with it - and above the bin is a 'hidden' drawer where I store bin bags, foil, baking paper etc. My bin has a lid, but it sits half on/ half off it and there is no food waste/ wet wrappers in there, so no smells. My hidden drawer also makes me smile - and people think it's really neat. It's just a way of making use of wasted space

I was also thinking about getting rid of wall cupboards - but didn't want glasses and mugs under the worktop - it just seems wrong!

Another vote for toasters on trays - much less mess! (and was a handy way to quickly carry the flaming toaster out of the kitchen to the garden when one caught on fire earlier this year! :eek:)

Floor - easy clean. We had porcelain tiles last time - huge great things which looked fab but were super cold to stand on, took ages to dry when mopped nd the grout lines were slightly too dipped in between - making them a dirt trap. It also meant that nothing dropped on it survived - crockery, glass, ovenware, phones......We now have k@rnde@n parquet style flooring - we also have it in our hall where it has been wonderful for the last 7/8 years. However, pure black flooring in a kitchen shows up every little crumb! And I'm not a good housewife! Easy to clean, though (when I do it....) However, a good lino type covering would look just as good, to be honest - and be way cheaper.

Not sure how tall you are - but consider space for something to make it easy to reach things at the top of wall cupboards. Anything I have at the top is used relatively infrequently (eg excess homemade jams)and I have an 1kea Bekvam step stool to help me reach it. It's solid and sturdy and gets used by people to sit on at times. I've had a folding type one before, but never again since I fell off one many years ago. x

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Just a quick visit to wish you, KC, and all the lovely people who post on your diary a wonderful and memorable Christmas wherever and however you plan to spend it:beer::xmastree::santa2:.

beanielou

Have a lovely time Karmcat xx

Suffolk_lass

I have wire drawers in the section of the oven housing unit that I don't have a second oven for. I use that for weird but useful things (salad spinner, hooks for mixer, a funnel, paper cake liners and disks, pastry cutters - I don't know, maybe I hoard) - and homemade jams on the other shelf. and we used two drawer fronts braced together to front the remaining space which is a built in drawer. Maximising storage.

We swapped out our wire pull out larder cupboards for ordinary cabinets and bespoked the inside for storing bins, buckets, crates of jars (empty - for making jams, pickles and chutneys) and the ironing board. I wish I had used some wire drawers in these so I could see what is at the back on the top 2 shelves though...

Karmacat

carbootcrazy wrote: »

Just a quick visit to wish you, KC, and all the lovely people who post on your diary a wonderful and memorable Christmas wherever and however you plan to spend it:beer::xmastree::santa2:.

beanielou wrote: »

Have a lovely time Karmcat xx

Thank you both - here's hoping for "happy, healthy and wise" for all of us :xmastree::xmassmile


So I finally made myself register for online banking with my new bank, which was really easy, but discovered I need something called a card reader ... nobody said anything about that, so I only enrolled when I needed to use it, argh. And I can't use it. Live chat couldn't help. The queue at the bank made me lose the will to live. And I have to pay it by December 28th. This is totally of my own making but I do think someone or some document at the bank could have mentioned card readers. Hey ho, I've ordered it now.


My solution: Pay the cc with a savings account which is online. I hope that works - otherwise, its a queue at the bank after Christmas!


I did buy some of the amazingly cheap veg - 2kg tatties, llb sprouts, 1kg carrots and 400g red seedless grapes for £2.70



Kitchen post replies, here I come

Karmacat

greent wrote: »

Ok - clarifying my remark about polishing granite - by polish I mean wipe over with a damp microfibre cloth and then dry with another microfibre cloth - no cleaning products involved (except maybe a little w-u-l from a sink full of water run for dishes)

:kisses3::kisses3::kisses3:
Like you, my sister uses microfibre cloths all the time ... I'd love to have granite, in lots of ways, it's one more thing I'll investigate: "worktop" is a whole pinterest topic, I think!

Hidden drawers - I have one above my bin - so you open the (full unit height) drawer to pull out the bin with it - and above the bin is a 'hidden' drawer where I store bin bags, foil, baking paper etc. My bin has a lid, but it sits half on/ half off it and there is no food waste/ wet wrappers in there, so no smells. My hidden drawer also makes me smile - and people think it's really neat. It's just a way of making use of wasted space

Thanks for this! I was thinking "no" as a cutlery drawer, and very nearly threw the baby out with the bathwater, so this is much appreciated. The concept is great, it would make me smile too.

I was also thinking about getting rid of wall cupboards - but didn't want glasses and mugs under the worktop - it just seems wrong!

Yep, I had mugs hanging up underneath wall cupboards in days gone by, but I want as little out as possible.

Another vote for toasters on trays - much less mess! (and was a handy way to quickly carry the flaming toaster out of the kitchen to the garden when one caught on fire earlier this year! :eek:)

Oh my :eek: That would be ... educational :eek:

Floor - easy clean. We had porcelain tiles last time - huge great things which looked fab but were super cold to stand on, took ages to dry when mopped nd the grout lines were slightly too dipped in between - making them a dirt trap. It also meant that nothing dropped on it survived - crockery, glass, ovenware, phones......We now have k@rnde@n parquet style flooring - we also have it in our hall where it has been wonderful for the last 7/8 years. However, pure black flooring in a kitchen shows up every little crumb! And I'm not a good housewife! Easy to clean, though (when I do it....) However, a good lino type covering would look just as good, to be honest - and be way cheaper.

I want quite light colours for flooring. I *have* that in my living room, a nice vinyl, but I'm not good at cleaning and its got really grotty. My brother has introduced me to the concept of a steam mop, which he swears by. K@rnde@n sounds fantastic, though I don't think I can quite go there, ouch. The breakages is a good point - I'm not the clumsiest person ever, but I'm not far off sometimes :rotfl:

Not sure how tall you are - but consider space for something to make it easy to reach things at the top of wall cupboards. Anything I have at the top is used relatively infrequently (eg excess homemade jams)and I have an 1kea Bekvam step stool to help me reach it. It's solid and sturdy and gets used by people to sit on at times. I've had a folding type one before, but never again since I fell off one many years ago. x

I'm 5' 6", but I just stand on a chair when needed Yikes to falling off, that could be seriously damaging I'll check out the Bekvam, I like the idea of people sitting on it sometimes - they *should* be able to, of course, if you can stand on it, but I like the multifunction, and there won't be that much seating downstairs.

Karmacat

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

I have wire drawers in the section of the oven housing unit that I don't have a second oven for. I use that for weird but useful things (salad spinner, hooks for mixer, a funnel, paper cake liners and disks, pastry cutters - I don't know, maybe I hoard) - and homemade jams on the other shelf. and we used two drawer fronts braced together to front the remaining space which is a built in drawer. Maximising storage.

We swapped out our wire pull out larder cupboards for ordinary cabinets and bespoked the inside for storing bins, buckets, crates of jars (empty - for making jams, pickles and chutneys) and the ironing board. I wish I had used some wire drawers in these so I could see what is at the back on the top 2 shelves though...

This is crucial, really - awkward spaces have to have some version of pull-out storage if they're going to be used, and we need to use *all* our storage these days. I like the idea of using it for those hard to reach spaces in particular.

rtandon27

:xmastree::xmassmile Merry Christmas KC - hope you are having a wonderful day with sis! :xmassmile :xmastree:
:xmassign:

Karmacat

Thanks RT! Happy Boxing Day :santa2::santa2::santa2:
Yesterday was lovely, thank you - huge great spread for so few people and long too! I came home with leftovers, of course, as you do


How was your Christmas?