General Chat

A randy husband.

I have most things,but New windows would be nice ,and a Butler and Maid lol

Not sure what our plot translates to but in our main home we have 680square metre plot which is on two levels.
The house is typical in that the main floor has a large dining/sitting room, two double bedrooms with all the fitted wardrobes, small laundry area, well at least the washing machine and tumble drier can fit in and a small kitche and it is the kitchen which drives me mad!!!! It is so small compared to anyhouse I have ever lived in but when our spanish friends visit they do not understand why it drives me mad.

Downstairs is a two bedroom appartment with a lovely large room which looks over some of the garden and the swimming pool. One new shower room and in a small alcove we have put one of the compact kitchens you can buy from any good DIY place.
Book cases are everywhere so we built a Swiss style shed for OHs Train set up , and also all the bits and pieces such as christmas decorations .
Yet we still had to build a room outside our bedrom for TV and Music and guess what we still do not have enough room and there are only 2 of us most of the time!!!!
We can sleep up o 14 people though and often do if we have a "good time"

Our garden is on 4 different levels so only grow things that do not need a lot of attention.
Oh has just sead do not forget the 1200 bfirst edition books all behind glass and the Cds about 800 but we are going to try to get rid of them as he now has them all on discs.
We need more space but where???
When we return to the UK I am not sure what we shall do....
Bridget

Miss the muddle and noise since our two sons have left home - the grandchildren make up for it when they visit,
Liz

Im with you Daff id love a bigger airing cupboard and a bigger cupboard understairs. i cant stand an ironing board up in it nor the hoover.

Id love for youngest son to have more room in his bedroom. He said when older sister moves out he will have her room. He is 11 and she is 19 and she said he would probably leave home before she does. lol

Teresa

puts my coat on and off to Daffs brothers for a week
takes off coat to reveal my itssy bits teeney weeny bikini


and gets in his hot tub

I would like:

Conservatory - my back garden is only 30 ft and only gets the early morning sun. The front garden is 90 ft and gets sun from afternoon until dusk. I'm not sure whether it would be allowed being that it is a front garden.

Window sills - first place I have lived in that didn't have any.

Garden shed - difficult to describe, but the brick built shed that we have is attached to the house and the door is in the hall way.

Being able to walk around the outside of the house from back door to front door. It is a semi, but one side of the house is the neighbours garden.

There are a few more wishes, but this'll do for now.

Joanne x

My home is missing a full-time cleaner/cook/tidier-upper/dog-walker and anything else that I can't face doing in this lovely hot weather!!

(Having said that OH has put two lots of washing out and sorted lunch today - bless him!!)

Jill

well our 1989 kitchen needs updating its only small and a little L shaped so with all the appliances its not got lots of cupboard storage , We had a local company in on Thursday for a quote and all in including any plastering and electrics & tiling including floor ,(The fuse board has to be changed to trip switch type for building regs) we did an explosion into our tea at £12000 quote !!

I have now got hubby going through the internet looking to see how we can flog my dining table and chairs.... I haven't told him I want the wall unit gone, as well as some of the dark wood furniture that goes with it, I'll keep that for another day. I was going to put them on Freecycle, lol, and he was horrified but at least he is looking at getting rid!

Aw, bless you, Mummo....and If I win big you shall have your own little bungalow, with two loos and no trek, lolol ;¬))

Blissful, Wend.... sounds wonderful.

Emma our patio doors now open into the conservatory, my pc is just the other side of them... so I can be on pc, talk to hubby and watch tv all in one go... but shut myself off if I don't like what's on the box, lol I have french doors now, from kitchen into con, and from con into garden... so lovely

Wmsl @ Fiona.... bet you'd fill them in a couple of months!

To be fair, when son isn't here, there is plenty of space, but he moved back at a time when I didn't have the energy or strength to arrange it properly, so now everywhere is just even more cluttered. We had started renovating just as I was diagnosed, so it is still more or less in the same condition. *sighs* Just fed up with the towels and the bedding being on top of our chests of drawers in the bedroom.... or on son's bedroom floor, lol

Love

Daff xxxx

About 3 extra rooms :))

Hubby and I have just spent a few days in a very unspoilt part of Norfolk with my b-i-l. He lives in an old cottage in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by meadowland, wild flowers and just a cat (and the birds) for company. He has a small hexagonal summerhouse in the meadow and I spent quite a bit of time in there reading or listening to the radio and it was heaven. That's what I would like in my own garden - somewhere to get away from everybody sometimes and maybe do some painting.

Since moving into our flat l think the only thing l really miss is the extra toilet...............donot ask me why its not like l sit here crossed leg but l do miss it, lol.
Oh Daff, l do feel for you, l hate things in the house that aren't used and l have to have everything in its right place.
If l ever win the lotto first thing to do ................get a airing cupboard ( l got a large one here, he he) for Daff and get her kitchen done, lol.

In our living/sitting room we have a large window
at the front of house and had a smaller one at the back.
We removed smaller one and put in Patio doors which
slide open so we walk out into the garden area, saves
us going through the kitchen to get to the garden.

Emmax

Joy at my brother's yesterday, we looked at his cabins, one of which has sauna, hot tub, 50 + inch tv, and a stereo system to die for... well, actually, he nearly did, and it was the insurance from that which paid for it, so good luck to him. I wouldn't want the sauna, nor the gym housed in the second one, but with a connecting link built between the two. But I would quite like a hot tub or a little indoor swimming pool.

We did look at that for here, but there is a problem with the type of footings, it wouldn't have been feasible. So I have a nice large conservatory instead.

Rose, that would be lovely... I like the 50's fireplaces as well, and would have a little china tortoise on it, like my nan had ;¬))

Love

Daff xxxxx

Kemp, you might have something there!!

Stray, the loft is full of military bits and pieces, plus throws/cushions/ornaments that I would normally use to change the *feel* of a room.... they all used to be in the drawers under the bed, and I cannot get into the loft, either, I have been stuck with the same colour scheme for the last couple of years... last year, hubby put them up, but the previous year I didn't use them cos I was in hospital and then recovering, so I am missing them very much and am restless for a change of colour highlights.!! lolol

Joan, that sounds like a really sensible, and would make life just a bit more comfortable for you, as well.

To do everything, I need a big rush of adrenaline and energy... I have big plans when I feel good, and then 2 hours into a five week job I have to rest for a week, lol So nothing gets done, and it just all looks too much to tackle. Still.... one day it will look lovely, lolol

Love

Daff xxxxx

i would add a giant hot tub mmmmm

My name on the deeds! lol

if this were mine it would be perfect.... there are things i would do up and alter
but they would be a pleasure to do, i wouldn't change the basics it is a lovely 1950s house and has the original features especially the tiled fire place which everyone else would rip out but I love, a tiny kitchen which is terribly awkward...but has the compensation of a larder :))

xx

Daff you may be best moving out and leaving them to it!!!!!...lol

more storage means more junk lol, i have built in cubord in my room, 2 under stair cupboards, and a alleyways and a outhouse, and a garage all full tot he brim of toys!!!!


what is missing from my house, my loft done lol