What business housekeeping jobs are you doing to stay productive?
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Comments (69)Have a look at how this house would have been presented in 1928. See if you can find any archives from the firm which designed it. Pebble-dash has a long history of domestic use here, going back to the nineteenth century, and it is possible to renovate it or replace it with modern pebble-dash which looks very handsome. At one time a terrible pink pd was used (later twentieth century), but the look you would be after is a tawny, sandy-beach range of colours. Your house was built at a time when there was a great taste for creating manageable homes with subtle rustic touches to give a cottagey feel without making extra work for the maid/housewife or actually making it look like a real cottage (which at that time still meant the slums people were escaping as much as anything else.) The 20s were also a time when the popular taste for half-timbered and timber-framed buildings was very strong. The people who call the buildings in Canada and the US "Tudor" because of the timber decoration on the exterior derive their description from early 20th c useage in Britain. Real timber-framed etc buildings used render which had to be reparied and repainted pretty constantly. This is where pebble-dash, a vry tough material, comes in. I wouldn't lose it! I'd keep it and clean and mend it. If you get someone in to fix it the old-fashioned way you'll be surprised at the skill it takes (not unlike harling.) Look at the nice way it flares at the bottom so neatly. Don't lose these humble period details, I beg of you. But rethink the porch and hide the burglar-alarm....See MoreDo you flip your mattress?
Comments (19)Ordinarily, I flip mine ("flip" sounds so easy!) every three months without fail: end-to-end, side-to-side, end-to-end, side-to-side. Repeat, ad infinitum. It does extend the life of the mattress and help it wear more evenly. (Did I mention I once worked for a mattress company?) With new ones and plush "mattress toppers" built-in and memory foam layers on one side and not the other... You can't really flip it over. Both sides are not the same. In the UK our mattress is sort of foam-core / layer-filled. (I don't think it has springs. It's not like the US mattresses I'm used to.) The top is the top, and the bottom is the bottom, and one does not sleep on the bottom. Consequently, I flip it from side-to-side, but not over, every three months. (If I'm making sense here.) In the US we have a traditional coil-spring-with-layers-on-both-sides mattress: no memory foam, no combination "stuffing," no mattress topper. And I do the quarterly thing with it. ...and suddenly I feel like an old lady who grew up in the '50s and learned housekeeping from Mom and my aunts and my grandmothers. O.o...See MoreDuring a heatwave what are you most likely to do?
Comments (14)It's one of the times I really appreciate going into work because we have air conditioning. I hate excessive heat and feel really sorry for people who work in shops n offices without it. Night times it's a case of windows open, big fan on and just laying on the bed to watch TV. Less Movement = Less Hotness. Sleeping's been OK because I never wear nightclothes and just drape a sheet over myself....See MoreWhat are you glad you put in your kitchen, and what can you do without
Comments (123)Thank you for everyone's comments, had no idea this thread would prove so popular when I started it. We are plastering this week and we have finally bought most things for the kitchen. I did find some real 'finds' though if anyone is looking. Not sure where you are based, but regarding electrical goods we researched all our own and narrowed down our list, and once we had that we looked online for the best prices for each appliance. Instead of buying from lots of different places we took it to Bentalls, who not only matched, but also cost us less, and beat some online prices with a good 'deal' price they also then will hold on to them until you need them, but if anything goes wrong you have 'bentalls' rather than several online dealers to return items to. RDO Appliances also do this if there is one near you, but i'd advise you to research prices first. Another thing we found was inserts for the kitchens. Through our kitchen supplier these were expensive, bin inserts, pull out drawers, pull out larders, even the pop up sockets, sourced seperately through ebay and online we managed to save quite a lot of money by doing this, so our fitter will still have the right things on the day, but we are not getting the inserts from the supplier. What else..... erm kitchen worktop, unbelievably the exact same worktop, same material, same cut outs etc.. same sizes differed between suppliers by 3k! so do shop around for your quartz and granite....See More- 4 years ago
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