Is that not a 1950s pantry cupboard MU? They style looks so similar to one I was looking at for my kitchen when I still had dreams of quaint features and anything other than building dust.
I have done all I can for tonight. As his lordship and the hound departed in my truck I was informed the hound had chundered on the small piece of carpet we have left. Glad his lordship doesn't think to clean it up himself.
I am now laying on bed trying to decide what to get for supper. I can't have take aways and I'm not sure if I can be bothered to cook anything. Toast perhaps!
We have a long 50s base unit with a red formica top which has cupboards, drawers and a pull out, fold out table which I absolutely love but it needs a serious paint job and won't fit in the new house so is staying behind. I have a 30s dresser thingy I painted plain cream which is coming with us. It holds OH's collection of Belgian beer glasses.
Have to make a chocolate beetroot cake now for Possum. It's her last day at her student job tomorrow - counting takings at Walibi, a theme park. She's shattered and looking forward to a lie in on Sunday.
Clari - impressive!
No magnums here but I may just have a wee bowl of proper ice cream with hot chocolate sauce later while I wait for the cake to cool for its ganache topping.......
Last edited: 29 July 2016 20:22:33
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We will be having the whole house rewired PP yes. The angle (original 1950s installation ?) did have me scratching my head. The light switch is set too far into the room as well I think it must have been a Friday afternoon job!
The plaster is in awful condition. In some places if you knock the wall you hear it crumbling; in the hallway I stripped the wallpaper and had huge chunks fall away. Also whoever put new skirting on has badly bobbed plaster down to the floor so it's sucked up all the condensation ? Best to get it done now as I don't intend on redecorating for a while! I'm hoping to have done every room by next year (aside from the kitchen; I need one usable room!)
Good on you girl. I stripped plaster to a metre up for dpc and that was bad enough. Oh the mess. I remember my mum brought my niece down with cake and sandwiches and we put an extension lead out the window to boil the kettle. It will get better..just sometimes it doesn't feel like it.
PP; the parents gave us an old small caravan that is in the garden for when the house gets too much but when you have a German Shepherd you find the seating arrangements are not quite enough.
The worst bit is the having to keep moving stuff between rooms. There is so much stuff that is lost and won't reappear til we're finished. The dining room is in the bedroom along with the bedroom and goodness knows where my sewing machine is. If I hope quiet presume me trapped under a box!
I've just spent an age reading back....a long way! I've been AWOL, sorry. been bonkers busy and sooo tired!
So Clari, I'll send you my CV, so now I'm chef, does that mean co-host goes to someone else, if so who? Maybe Hosta? Flatters and Harrie are both fully qualified plant crushers and grass pounders if that can assist Reggie and co? I'm sure they have the same charm as Nigel and Nell!
Loving the renovations also Clari, that was us ten months ago in a damp disused, 3 room basement! Windows put in , resupported chimney breast, damp plaster and brick walls ground off which I just found out that the rubbish from this ended up on my compost heap then covered with garden waste! best of luck! It will feel amazing when you have it done!
Muddle, love the painted cupboard! Imaginative and really pretty!
Sorry Hazel for the slug juice flashbacks! I still shudder myself!
Have no chance of remembering anything else apart from save me some dinner please Hosta!
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Is that not a 1950s pantry cupboard MU? They style looks so similar to one I was looking at for my kitchen when I still had dreams of quaint features and anything other than building dust.
I have done all I can for tonight. As his lordship and the hound departed in my truck I was informed the hound had chundered on the small piece of carpet we have left. Glad his lordship doesn't think to clean it up himself.
I am now laying on bed trying to decide what to get for supper. I can't have take aways and I'm not sure if I can be bothered to cook anything. Toast perhaps!
Wow MU - what a talent
. Looks stunning .....you'll have to find a home for it now
Evening all
Shed of the Year on here too.... some are amazing and some are just, well odd and sometimes a little, dare I say, dull!

I don't mind Wyvale... they sell reduced plants like the rest, and they are the only ones I buy
Love the cupboard MU.
We have a long 50s base unit with a red formica top which has cupboards, drawers and a pull out, fold out table which I absolutely love but it needs a serious paint job and won't fit in the new house so is staying behind. I have a 30s dresser thingy I painted plain cream which is coming with us. It holds OH's collection of Belgian beer glasses.
Have to make a chocolate beetroot cake now for Possum. It's her last day at her student job tomorrow - counting takings at Walibi, a theme park. She's shattered and looking forward to a lie in on Sunday.
Clari - impressive!
No magnums here but I may just have a wee bowl of proper ice cream with hot chocolate sauce later while I wait for the cake to cool for its ganache topping.......
Last edited: 29 July 2016 20:22:33
Clari are you having rewiring done? I'm no leccy but I'm a bit concerned about the angle of dangle of the conduit above the light switch.
Why does ALL the plaster have to come off? You've given yourself a helluva job.
We will be having the whole house rewired PP yes. The angle (original 1950s installation ?) did have me scratching my head. The light switch is set too far into the room as well I think it must have been a Friday afternoon job!
The plaster is in awful condition. In some places if you knock the wall you hear it crumbling; in the hallway I stripped the wallpaper and had huge chunks fall away. Also whoever put new skirting on has badly bobbed plaster down to the floor so it's sucked up all the condensation ? Best to get it done now as I don't intend on redecorating for a while! I'm hoping to have done every room by next year (aside from the kitchen; I need one usable room!)
Good on you girl. I stripped plaster to a metre up for dpc and that was bad enough. Oh the mess. I remember my mum brought my niece down with cake and sandwiches and we put an extension lead out the window to boil the kettle. It will get better..just sometimes it doesn't feel like it.
PP; the parents gave us an old small caravan that is in the garden for when the house gets too much but when you have a German Shepherd you find the seating arrangements are not quite enough.
The worst bit is the having to keep moving stuff between rooms. There is so much stuff that is lost and won't reappear til we're finished. The dining room is in the bedroom along with the bedroom and goodness knows where my sewing machine is. If I hope quiet presume me trapped under a box!
Hello everybody!
I've just spent an age reading back....a long way! I've been AWOL, sorry.
been bonkers busy and sooo tired! 
So Clari, I'll send you my CV, so now I'm chef, does that mean co-host goes to someone else, if so who? Maybe Hosta? Flatters and Harrie are both fully qualified plant crushers and grass pounders if that can assist Reggie and co? I'm sure they have the same charm as Nigel and Nell!
Loving the renovations also Clari, that was us ten months ago in a damp disused, 3 room basement! Windows put in , resupported chimney breast, damp plaster and brick walls ground off which I just found out that the rubbish from this ended up on my compost heap then covered with garden waste!
best of luck! It will feel amazing when you have it done! 
Muddle, love the painted cupboard! Imaginative and really pretty!
Sorry Hazel for the slug juice flashbacks!
I still shudder myself! 

Have no chance of remembering anything else apart from save me some dinner please Hosta!
Bell you over the weekend Dove x
Happy Friday everyone!
Last edited: 29 July 2016 22:11:15
Hosta how you want to be the intelligent one in our new gardeners world spin off?
Wonky: my main worry is that Nigel and Nell look so calm and clever. We'd end up Reggie cleaning his willy for all to see. He's obsessed with it.
I've retreated to bed but with those two away it's too quiet I can't settle!