I have a teeny kitchen and would dearly like more storage, bigger fridge freezer and such.
Please post a pic of it once in situ
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farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Will if I remember. The shelves are 61cm square as that will fit OK. They do bigger shelves if you have more room. They look really easy to put together which is always a bonus.I have a teeny kitchen and would dearly like more storage, bigger fridge freezer and such.
Please post a pic of it once in situ
Modular Shelving Kits, Boltless Shelving and Units for Cold Rooms | Nisbets Catering
Keep your food, ingredients, cooking equipment and more stored safely and efficiently with our range of modular shelving kits, with FREE NEXT DAY DELIVERY.
www.nisbets.co.uk
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Will if I remember. The shelves are 61cm square as that will fit OK. They do bigger shelves if you have more room. They look really easy to put together which is always a bonus.
Modular Shelving Kits, Boltless Shelving and Units for Cold Rooms | Nisbets Catering
Keep your food, ingredients, cooking equipment and more stored safely and efficiently with our range of modular shelving kits, with FREE NEXT DAY DELIVERY.
I love the Nisbet's catalogue, kitchen porn at its best
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
I've bought 8 1L kilner jars to store flour and stuff in their sale - seems to be a lot cheaper than general retail sites from what I can tell.
Will have to contact them to check if I can buy additional shelves - they sell them for the oblong shelving units but not the square ones, so hopefully they can source them. Looks like the shelf unit could easily take another shelf or two.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Some things are really good value, others not so much unless you are buying in bulk. We go there for OH's chef whites (he prefers to try them on if possible, you don't want to be working in a kitchen with ill fitting clothing) and it is difficult to resist picking up other bits and pieces while we are there.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Was it fuck as like.
It's ended up a bit wonky but fuck it - it'll do. Fairly heavy and well made components to be fair - the weakest points are the plastic sleeves that hold the shelves in place - hopefully they'll continue to hold the shelves up. I bought the casters but that was a mistake - it made them into a drunken shelving unit, so ditched them and reinserted the normal feet for each of the four poles.
I could dismantle it to try and make it more level but it was surprising hard work just to get the damn thing assembled. Will take a picture once I've tidied up the kitchen Badgers - had to move shitloads of stuff and couldn't be bothered to finish it all today.
Of the four shelves:
- Breadmaker and surplus storage space
- Tins and jars
- Pasta, couscous and other dried goods
- Flour
Bought a couple of these Lakeland Adapt A Shelf Extendable Storage Shelf, Compact,
and am as happy with them as only a year of lockdown can make you feel over such a small and functional item.
One to sit on top of the kitchen counter, the other one for the back of my tall and deep food cupboard. Pleasingly, the boxes they came in are pretty much the perfect size to feature in my cupboard, too, and are a handsome pigeon-blue colour. Pasta/rice/cousous/pulses in one of them, flour and other baking bits in the other one, for easy access to the stuff at the back.
and am as happy with them as only a year of lockdown can make you feel over such a small and functional item.
One to sit on top of the kitchen counter, the other one for the back of my tall and deep food cupboard. Pleasingly, the boxes they came in are pretty much the perfect size to feature in my cupboard, too, and are a handsome pigeon-blue colour. Pasta/rice/cousous/pulses in one of them, flour and other baking bits in the other one, for easy access to the stuff at the back.
moonsi til
worked it out now!
Not long moved house & wanted a overhead floor lamp behind sofa & found one second hand for £20 , it dims & has 4 small lights rather than one big one & a Henry Hoover for £37 oh & a fridge! All essentials.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Oh I need something like that. Was going to see about making some small wooden shelving type thing to go between the counters and the wall cupboards in our kitchen, but I lack basic tools atm (in storage at my parents' place and I haven't seen them for over a year thanks to Covid so I can't get them back just yet).
Thanks for the suggestion, may get a couple.
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
yipee! I finally got a new sofa!
One of the springs things in the seat of my old sofa went 'ping' at least two years ago, then another 'ping' and I had to warn everyone to be careful when sitting down to avoid the black hole.
At the beginning of lockdown I 'mended' it with wire and elastic. By december I'd added some cardboard, but decided enough is enough! I hate having to buy new things.
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One of the springs things in the seat of my old sofa went 'ping' at least two years ago, then another 'ping' and I had to warn everyone to be careful when sitting down to avoid the black hole.
At the beginning of lockdown I 'mended' it with wire and elastic. By december I'd added some cardboard, but decided enough is enough! I hate having to buy new things.
Sophia | 3 Seater Sofa | Linoso Teal
Sophia specifications Non-tropical screwed/glued hardwood frame Heavy-gauge serpentine seat springing Moulded foam seat cushions Hollow fill fibre back cushions Fully upholstered in Linoso fabric
yipee! I finally got a new sofa! I hate having to buy new things. View attachment 253020
One of the springs things in the seat of my old sofa went 'ping' at least two years ago, then another 'ping' and I had to warn everyone to be careful when sitting down to avoid the black hole.
At the beginning of lockdown I 'mended' it with wire and elastic. By december I'd added some cardboard, but decided enough is enough!
Sophia | 3 Seater Sofa | Linoso Teal
Sophia specifications Non-tropical screwed/glued hardwood frame Heavy-gauge serpentine seat springing Moulded foam seat cushions Hollow fill fibre back cushions Fully upholstered in Linoso fabric
Gorgeous colour!
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
how long are sofas suposed to last?
mx wcfc
Well-Known Member
Blimey, no idea. Ours are 20+ years old? My understanding is that they are going to be replaced soon. They still look/feel fine to me.
Looby
Well-Known Member
My last ones were about 12/13 years. They were leather and fairly expensive.
I hope the new ones last as long because they’re costing us a fortune.
I’ve had cheaper fabric ones that haven’t lasted more than 5 years.
mx wcfc
Well-Known Member
Ours are fabric, but weren't cheap. They have lasted really well, and I'm pretty sure would last many more years if they were recovered. These days though, getting sofas properly, professionally, recovered? - you may as well get new ones. Sad.
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
I suppose I always hope things will last for ever. The old sofa was about 14 years old and the other sofa bed we bought at the time is still going strong with the bed not too uncomfy and the fabric of both is fine. I'm going to cut the fabric off the old one to make cushions. The old sofas were both very cheap sofa sofa ones.
moonsi til
worked it out now!
Might be lack of sleep caused by night shift but bought a new cooker today that is worth more than my car which TBH isn’t hard!
I ‘inherited’ a Belling gas range cooker with new house with notes on the bits that don’t work. I was planning to have repaired but other bits have not worked & I have left the gas on several times. I have splurged on this which is all electric
I ‘inherited’ a Belling gas range cooker with new house with notes on the bits that don’t work. I was planning to have repaired but other bits have not worked & I have left the gas on several times. I have splurged on this which is all electric
Will probably have a chair in front of that bit anyway 
Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
Moved into new rented cottage last Friday.
I have acquired (for free, from a mate who had found them in his house when he bought it last year): a fridge and a freezer.
As this place has no outdoor space, and is open plan living area, I have bought a tumble dryer. Plenty of space for it here and I can't be doing with having airers everywhere, picking up cooking smells etc.
As my previous mattress (9 years old, and second hand when I got it in 2012) went to the dump back in December after I sold my house (been living in hotels / airBnBs since then) I have ordered a Simba mattress. My first ever new mattress.
All being well both will arrive on Saturday.
I think I will need some light shades as the bare bulbs are a bit unappealing, but I will wait till Ikea reopens. There's no towel rail in the bathroom and I have identified that water splashes from the sink onto the wall sometimes - so I will also look for a freestanding towel rail which can fill the gap between the wall and the sink and kill two birds with one stone.
I have acquired (for free, from a mate who had found them in his house when he bought it last year): a fridge and a freezer.
As this place has no outdoor space, and is open plan living area, I have bought a tumble dryer. Plenty of space for it here and I can't be doing with having airers everywhere, picking up cooking smells etc.
As my previous mattress (9 years old, and second hand when I got it in 2012) went to the dump back in December after I sold my house (been living in hotels / airBnBs since then) I have ordered a Simba mattress. My first ever new mattress.
All being well both will arrive on Saturday.
I think I will need some light shades as the bare bulbs are a bit unappealing, but I will wait till Ikea reopens. There's no towel rail in the bathroom and I have identified that water splashes from the sink onto the wall sometimes - so I will also look for a freestanding towel rail which can fill the gap between the wall and the sink and kill two birds with one stone.
moonsi til
worked it out now!
New cooker finally arrived today, smidge of drama as we bought all electric switching from gas & paid for fitting but they are not allowed to switch off the gas so we had to do that & sign a waiver. Then our amp was not enough & something about the cables. But we got there in the end & the guys from Curry’s were really helpful. Photo of old & new.
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farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Toying with the idea of getting a lamp from this company - looks nice and colourful.
moose
like some cat from Japan
Oooh! Do it do it do it do it!!Toying with the idea of getting a lamp from this company - looks nice and colourful.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Was thinking of the desk lamps rather than floor ones, and they say you can control multiple lamps with the remote control so I might have to buy two.
Toying with the idea of getting a lamp from this company - looks nice and colourful.
What a really cool idea.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Have ordered two so will report back once they're here and set up. Will need to buy some more extension leads as I'm running out of sockets with all the stuff plugged.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
The lamps have been delivered. They give a nice warm glow in whatever chosen colour, but I'll see what they look like properly when it's dark.
You can set it to cycle through the colours in different ways - that's a bit much, but I suppose I could pretend I'm in a disco somewhere. Solid colours are better.
You can set it to cycle through the colours in different ways - that's a bit much, but I suppose I could pretend I'm in a disco somewhere. Solid colours are better.
moose
like some cat from Japan
You need never go out clubbing again!
