Forever Starts Now

starnac

The house is glorious. It also makes me despair at the same time. There is nothing wrong with it per se. It is in a completely liveable condition, BUT, and I know I'm being petty, for instance, there are no drawers in the kitchen! Where does my cutlery go? They are currently living on the windowsill. Also, wood panelling everywhere! On walls, on the ceilings. Where there isn't wood panelling, those rooms have two different types of textured wallpaper and a flowery border! 

It is all in good condition though so it'll stay that way til we have funds to change it. But some days I do question their design choices!

Yesterday I ordered some seeds and plants for the garden ready for spring. I spend £60 oops! but I am starting from nothing here so hopefully that will start me off very well!

Cheery_Daff

😂😂 Yes I feel the same about our house - sometimes glorious, sometimes despair with all the things left to do 😂 I confess I don't mind a bit of wood paneling, although I prefer it painted. We don't have any though! We are woodchip all the way, including some of the ceilings 😂 I can live with that, although I will be very pleased when we can get rid of the bathroom carpet 😂

savingholmes

Wood panelling on the ceiling would get to me - as would the clash of textures and designs. I had a false drawer front in the kitchen and during lockdown one we managed to fit a drawer in the space. We'd lived 14 years without it but it does make such a difference. 

Could you put the cutlery in baskets and put them on shelves and then just pull out the basket as needed. That way it could at least be behind a cupboard door. 

Well done to your DH in learning BSL.

Karmacat

No actual drawer for the cutlery would send me bananas, I'm with you, starnac!  As for the wood panelling ... hmmm, it depends what's behind it (sorry  ).

starnac

Karmacat said:

No actual drawer for the cutlery would send me bananas, I'm with you, starnac!  As for the wood panelling ... hmmm, it depends what's behind it (sorry  ).

That's the worry. Part of me is like "rip it down" then the other part is like  "what is it hiding?"

@savingholmes the cutlery are in baskets at the moment just on the windowsill. Maybe putting them behind a cupboard door would make it at least look tidier

@Cheery_Daff bathroom carpet?  oh no! We have one in the dining room which I am not keen on due to possible food spillages. I like to be able to sweep up straight after dinner but after living in houses with mostly wooden/laminate floors downstairs the hoover is not my first thought.

South_coast

I've finally got round to lifting my bathroom carpet recently - only to find TWO layers of vinyl underneath 🤦‍♀️

kippers

starnac said:

The house is glorious. It also makes me despair at the same time. There is nothing wrong with it per se. It is in a completely liveable condition, BUT, and I know I'm being petty, for instance, there are no drawers in the kitchen! Where does my cutlery go? They are currently living on the windowsill. 

This so reminds me of our house, we lived without draws for 11 years until we finally got a new kitchen 8 years ago.  I got used to not having draws very quickly but my goodness my draws were such a novelty in my new kitchen that i kept opening and shutting them for the first week i had them, just because i could 🤣🤣🤣

Cheery_Daff

We're doing that with our kitchen at the minute 😂😂 A cutlery drawer! A sink in the same room as the cooker! 

Yes, bathroom carpet is hideous. We only haven't taken it up because there were more pressing things (ie a kitchen). Also we have a new bath, which isn't the same shape as the old one - no point taking the carpet up if we can't replace it with something else, and no point replacing til we can fit the new bath,  and no point doing that til we can sort out the hideous tiles (which have been painted with EMULSION!! Which is, of course, all flaking off).

Anyway, a project, but one that wasn't as important as getting a kitchen!

starnac

Yes that's a problem I've found with houses. Sometimes it's best to leave things as they are until you are ready to deal with a big project. 

In our last house there was a piece of wood about 2 foot long attached to the wall above the door in the kitchen just below the ceiling. Think skirting board type thing but between wall and ceiling instead of wall and floor. It bothered me because there was no rhyme or reason for it. One day DH pulled it down to stop me going on about it. Weeeeeeelllllllll!!!!!! The reason it was there was because the plaster board didn't reach all the way to the ceiling. I'm assuming they didn't buy enough for the whole kitchen and just went "oh stick a piece of wood over it. No one will know!"

Now one small piece of wood has become a bigger job because DH had to go and buy a piece of plaster board to plug the gap, fit it, plaster over it, then paint it, but obviously we couldn't get the exact colour of pale blue that matched the rest of the kitchen which meant we ended up painting the whole kitchen!

We leave small things alone now until we have time, money and energy to deal with a potential big project  

starnac

Happy New Year all. 

We had a lovely evening last night. DH and I had a pizza oven between us for Christmas (bought in the Boxing day sales) so we decided to try it out. I invited my mum and my sister over to have pizza with us. Well what a mess up! I made the dough and without thinking put them on plates ready to have toppings on them. Well they stuck to the plates. Then once off the plates, now misshapen, they stuck to the pizza stone and the small pieces burnt. In the end we ditched the pizza oven and cooked them in the proper oven instead. The pizza stone needs a good scrubbing to clean it all off! Next time I will put the dough on greaseproof paper before anything else so hopefully it won't stick to anything! Rookie mistake though!

The pizza did taste nice even though it didn't look nice. Then we played some games, DH lit the fire (my mum loves an open fire) and we moved the sofas in the living room to be around the fire and played more games on the coffee table. It was so simple and they left around 7pm but it was lovely. I think I will do it again. Invite them around for tea and games. Even the kids spend all evening with us without asking to leave or play on tech!