Why would you view a house without a tape measure in your hand?
I did say I was sitting on the fence. TBH , if you SEE a bed/wardrobe / 3 piece suite etc etc, there might be no need for the tape measure, unless you need to bring your billiard table, concert grand piano etc. Back onto the fence I go.
Both my French house, bought in 1990, and this Norfolk cottage were empty when we saw them. Imagination ran riot! Did quite a lot to the French one but the flowery English wall paper is now out of fashion. My children tell me so is the solid oak kitchen. Kitchens are black and white and shiny nowadays, apparently.
Builders are coming tomorrow to enlarge the sitting room window, which is tiny, and to put a window into the breakfast room, which is very dark and windowless. It will look out to the garden. I've nearly finished painting the dining room walls, two coats.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Been to doc, if I knew then what I know now I would have gone ages ago. What a fab chap! Reassured it is not deep but has given me dressing and a foot support to wear for protection morethan anything else. Oh seems reassured. gosh I am behind. Why are we measuring furniture?
thanks for all your help Forkers. Will check in when home
ps Punk we had some unlit zodiacs tonight. They reckon they were smugglers, wimps decided to run away😉
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
Who has standard sized wardrobes? Not us, but then they're all flea market/junk shop/Troc finds
Busy - English flowery wallpaper is definitely dated but can be quickly neutralised with a couple of coats of paint. Oak kitchens in old country houses are fine still but you need neutral walls and good lighting to set them off. Black or white kitchens are for modern, geometric homes I reckon. Our new one is cream and shiny but then it's a dark kitchen with a door and window on the north side so I wanted light bouncing around. The main wall of cupboards does have rich terracotta behind it and Provençal blue-ish curtains with terracotta and yellow in the mix but then I'm not trying to sell it.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Hello forks. Just had a read back... I see we have lost a poster 🙄 I hope all the foot injuries are feeling better? Just whipped-up a chicken curry (only slightly cheated with the sauce 😉) so a tad full after that. I might not have room for mocha cake now!!
Edit: typo - forks! Was supposed to be folks...but actually that will do!
We took Mum to the Hospital today for her eye appointment. We arrived at 9.20 for a 9.30 appointment. 10pm we saw the nurse who spent 5 mins checking her eyes. move to second waiting room. 11 am saw registrar. He put drops in eyes and we sat in waiting room for another 20 minutes. Another five minutes consultation, and they will send an appointment for two to three months time.
Meanwhile I was musing about the field of oil seed rape in full flower that we passed on the way in to Nottingham. I do not use this road regularly, so I don't know its history, but I doubt it is going to set seed. So what will happen? Is it any use for cattle fodder? The bees must be loving it.
It may well have been mustard Fidget. Farmers around our place in Belgium used it as a green manure after harvesting winter wheat or barley in July/August. A long, warm autumn would lead to it flowering well and it's the same family as rapeseed.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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TBH , if you SEE a bed/wardrobe / 3 piece suite etc etc, there might be no need for the tape measure, unless you need to bring your billiard table, concert grand piano etc.
Back onto the fence I go.
Both my French house, bought in 1990, and this Norfolk cottage were empty when we saw them. Imagination ran riot! Did quite a lot to the French one but the flowery English wall paper is now out of fashion. My children tell me so is the solid oak kitchen. Kitchens are black and white and shiny nowadays, apparently.
Builders are coming tomorrow to enlarge the sitting room window, which is tiny, and to put a window into the breakfast room, which is very dark and windowless. It will look out to the garden. I've nearly finished painting the dining room walls, two coats.
gosh I am behind. Why are we measuring furniture?
thanks for all your help Forkers. Will check in when home
ps Punk we had some unlit zodiacs tonight. They reckon they were smugglers, wimps decided to run away😉
A A Milne
Who has standard sized wardrobes? Not us, but then they're all flea market/junk shop/Troc finds
Busy - English flowery wallpaper is definitely dated but can be quickly neutralised with a couple of coats of paint. Oak kitchens in old country houses are fine still but you need neutral walls and good lighting to set them off. Black or white kitchens are for modern, geometric homes I reckon. Our new one is cream and shiny but then it's a dark kitchen with a door and window on the north side so I wanted light bouncing around. The main wall of cupboards does have rich terracotta behind it and Provençal blue-ish curtains with terracotta and yellow in the mix but then I'm not trying to sell it.
I see we have lost a poster 🙄
I hope all the foot injuries are feeling better?
Just whipped-up a chicken curry (only slightly cheated with the sauce 😉) so a tad full after that. I might not have room for mocha cake now!!
Edit: typo - forks! Was supposed to be folks...but actually that will do!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.