2023 Home Renovations

[Morganna]

I loved the 'before', and the 'after' is even better :)).

[Pippedydeadeye]

That’s a seriously impressive floral display Pov. I love it.

[bramblerose]

I love it Pov!

[Derek Nimmo]

Oh that's a much better door space - good choice.

I had a slimline dishwasher in my old place, and it was more than sufficient for two. I wouldn't go bigger for the sake of a couple of entertaining occasions per year if it disrupts the flow of everything else you want/need.

[Duophonic]

I looked at the before and thought there was an after in your first post and couldn't for the life of me see the 'after'.

Your after looks amazing.

I'd go with what you really want Morgs, if you want the curved end cabinet then get it don't worry about the size of the dishwasher.

My kitchen is a weird outcrop from the dining room as the layout of the house is double-fronted which is repeated at the back with a short extension (it's not an extension as it's the original design but that's the only way I can describe it) and the previous owners had eye-level cabinets which didn't work with all the windows and the external door.

Our options were:
1. we swap the kitchen into the existing dining room and had the kitchen as a utility room - the dining room opens into the garden which I love and we often sit in the dining room in the summer with the patio doors open so I didn't want a kitchen to interrupt that.
2. We take down all the eye-level cabinets, and consolidate our white goods into essentials (the previous space had washer/dryer/full size dishwasher/under counter fridge and freezer)

We chose option 2. We got rid of the tumble dryer and under counter fridge and freezer, 2nd oven and microwave. Moved an integrated tall unit with the fridge/freezer, put in a slimline dishwasher to accommodate the Quooker tap under the sink, and put in storage drawers.

It works for us and it's a tiny space.

[Hazey_Jane]

I can’t help but feel the pirate map would bring it up another level but apart from that, it looks lovely Povvo

[Princess Morripov]

Thank you! Someone will uncover that in years to come :))

[Morganna]

Thank you! Someone will uncover that in years to come :))

I love finding things like that

We found a height chart with the four of us on it when the walls were stripped to decorate. J and S had drawn little stick people next to the lines to represent us :)) I wish I'd taken a photo.

[Hazey_Jane]

In about 1987, my Nan changed the wallpaper in her house and then didn’t change it for the next 30 years. Which means that the people who bought it after her stroke have found the lyrics to the Chicken Song written on the wall by me and my brother

[Glint]

I have spent a couple of hours putting up a wall of self adhesive wallpaper and I’m quite impressed with it. It’s not perfect, but as its S’s room is serviceable. Straighter walls and no cutouts would have made it a breeze.

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[Duophonic]

That looks really good.

I'm rubbish with stuff like that.

[sally maclennane]

That's impressive! Looks great

[Glint]

Thanks!

[Little My]

That looks great! You've inspired me.

Is that an old vent you've covered up?

[Glint]

It is! It’s on the east gable end, so makes the room rather cold - hopefully it will help a bit.

[Morganna]

That's lovely, Glint, and a pattern like that would be very unforgiving if you got it wrong, so all the more impressive.

As I've said on the daily thread, my kitchen has hit yet another snag. I'll keep my tribulations to this thread. First there was the cracked sink, then it was put in the wrong way round so they had to get a new worktop, then the tap arrived with a broken wheel. Now they have discovered that the integrated fridge doesn't fit where it was meant to go, so they are going to have to take 10mm off the end cupboard and push the rest up a bit to make space. This means that instead of being finished last Wednesday it will be Friday (all going well). I have a cleaner and decorator booked, and Christmas is approaching, so this is Very Bad News. I'm hoping the decorator can still come, and that the cleaner won't bin me off and will find another day, but it's like a house of cards.

[Princess Morripov]

That’s lovely, Glint! I’m always full of admiration for anyone who puts wallpaper up!

A always does ours, but not without relentlessly announcing how shit the paper is, how I can get someone else to do it next time, etc. He’s very good but there’s a lot of emotional support required. A bit like putting up the icicle lights on the gutters :))

[emma_p]

It looks great! Is it Serena and Lily wallpaper?

[Glint]

No, its not a named brand, just a random Black Friday Amazon job.

[Luna]

I should’ve taken before pics but I only did a video documenting the hideousness of the project. Here is my new treatment room. It still needs a couple of things doing. I’d like a new lighter Venetian blind and in an ideal world I’d have a new carpet and I’d ditch a couple of bits of furniture but there’s nowhere else for them to go at the moment. The window wall was a dark khaki four days ago

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