AIBU to want a kettle and mini fridge in our bedroom?

[toomuchpressure78]

Recently completed a loft conversion, and bedroom is now on the 2nd floor, after 15 years of marital bliss in a 1st floor bedroom. The bedroom is lovely and we finally have an ensuite so no longer have to share a bathroom with 2 DDs and their endless collection of hair bands, unclosed toothpaste tubes, shampoo spillages and the rest.

Only problem is its now 2 flights of stairs down in the morning to make a cuppa, and 2 flights back up again to drink it in bed. We're a week in and I'm over it.

I want to get a kettle and a mini fridge in the bedroom, so tea can be made without dealing with any stairs at all. OH thinks this is unnecessary and will add clutter and damp to the bedroom. But then again, OH only makes the morning tea about once a fortnight and would basically cease to function if I wasn't getting up every day to make the tea.

Who is right?

Fridges are noisy. Just put some milk in a flask.

Do you make love in the bedroom. I see that making it a kitchen might be a problem.

I don’t understand why you’re asking permission. Just do what you want - personally- I’d have my mini fridge and kettle 😍

Yep that's what used to wake me hissing and bubbling

We started making a little metal flask / travel cup of coffee each to take up the night before when our oldest was a baby to keep us going on the night feeds and have never stopped since, I love sitting in bed with a coffee before I move 😅 (but maybe easier for us as we both drink black coffee so no milk to cool it and nothing else needed).

I have a Tassimo in my bedroom, best thing ever!

I wouldn't want tea making facilities in the new bedroom at home, but I'm not a tea in bed kind of person. I'd be making tea in the kitchen with the radio on, and wouldn't be ferrying up stairs for either myself or anyone else unless they were bedridden. Husband would have to come down stairs when it was ready. As he thinks a kettle in bedroom is unnecessary he would have to come down to the kitchen to fetch it. After a few weeks he might just change his mind, if he is a tea in bed kind of person.

I'm joining the kettle and thermos flask to keep milk cold till morning brigade. I have a kettle in my bedroom and also a drying up cloth in my bathroom so I can wash and dry my mug in the bathroom, and keep my mug upstairs. But about time your hubby took his turn making the tea! (I haven't read all seven pages of answers, so sorry if I'm just repeating what everyone else has said!)

We've only ever had one flight of stairs to go down, and we have always had tea-making facilities in the bedroom - nearly 43 years now. We originally had a Teasmade, but now it's just a mini kettle in the bedroom.
At bedtime we take up a tray with the filled kettle, 2 mugs with teabags in, a small container with the right amount of milk, a 'squeezer' and a little pot for the used teabags. The tray and the kettle base (it's cordless) sit on a clear glass worktop saver on top of a chest of drawers. It's not the least bit messy. The milk is fine overnight, though if it's hot you could use a thermos as others have suggested.
So I'm with you on this, OP - though I think you could manage without the fridge.

Skimmed milk goes off a lot quicker. As do any products with lower fat contents

I don't get people calling this clutter. It wouldn't be untidy to have something sensible and functional in your bedroom. They have them in hotel rooms

Absolutely. Get Teasmade.
My mum and dad had one .
I heard it burbling all the time in my youth.
Does such a thing not exist anymore?

Giving 1970s 🤣

however @toomuchpressure78 ….

A) why don’t you just get up and have tea, is it really necessary to go back to bed to have it?

B) “OH only makes the morning tea about once a fortnight and would basically cease to function if I wasn't getting up every day to make the tea”. I wouldn’t be indulging this either….

Lol, just googled and apparently they both go off the same, I always thought it was the fat that went off first. But, whatever, mum has never had a problem with gone off milk by the morning!

Is that when they were popular? Because I’m an 80s baby 90s kid and had never ever heard of them before this thread 🤣so yeah that explains it.

Yeah I agree, as I’ve said upthread kettle or no kettle the biggest problem about this IMO is her husband’s attitude.

I mean assuming he’s not got a disability or illness why on earth is he expecting his wife to go up and down the stairs for his all important tea?!

Do it !!! I love my princess tea trolley due to chronic illness somtimes i get stuck upstairs this has made my life easier plus it pretty 😃

Go vintage but classy and get a teasmaid

No doubt most who are posting on here are too young to remember the advent of the Teasmaid! I think we put milk in a thermos. Of course everything had to be washed up afterwards, but it was the luxury of not having to get out of bed to put the kettle on! They gradually faded away, I think issues with scalding water and cleaning got too much...

Not to mention the god awful noise they made!

I used to put the ingredients in a mug and just pour the hot water straight from the Teasmade (pocerlain?) pot. There was only the mug(s) and a spoon to wash then

Absolutely. There was a phase when DH had a Teasmade which he put on a dressing table, which meant he had to get up to switch off the (very loud) alarm. Only DH is definitely not the sort of person who is able to react immediately when woken up. So not only would you have all the noise of the kettle cranking into life and building up enough of a head of steam to be able to propel the water into the teapot thingy, you then had the torture of the bloody alarm going on and on and on till DH could crank himself into life enough to go and switch it off. Eventually I had to put my foot down and tell him it was the Teasmade or me, happily he chose me.