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

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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?

My alarm clock is a coffee maker with a chilled station for the milk for this exact reason

My son was given a teeny tiny fridge for Christmas - it would fit a pint of milk and not much more. Makes no noise at all and looks a bit like a little black box so not recognisable as a fridge as such.
Do it! Life is entirely too short to not enjoy the little things like your morning coffee in bed.

I drink black coffee first thing and have been taking a small vacuum flask up at night for decades. Wouldn’t suit the tea drinkers or ‘posh coffee connoisseurs’ though.

Oooh like a luxury hotel! 🥰

I also vote a kettle but a good thermos for the milk given you’ll have to bring cups etc up and down anyway

No they still exist and are brilliant!

https://amzn.eu/d/09KVpbVS

Teasmade

I'm with you, I've got a retro teasmade, literally the best thing ever! I don't drink milk but you could get away without fridge if you put your milk in a cold cup.

We have an instant boiled water machine rather than a kettle in our spare bedroom. It creates less steam. Could you have it inside a cabinet to reduce clutter so you open the doors and have a little designated tea making area?

Have your tea downstairs and leave him without.

My granny had a teasmaid in the’80’s. I don’t know if they’re still around.

Can you fill a Thermos and take it up with you at bed time?

YANBU I’d stop making the teas first! See if he changes his mind. Why do you always make them - are you up first or something? I’d probably give him the choice of doing it every second day so you’re making the teas roughly equally or you get a fridge and kettle.

Personally I wouldn’t be keen on a kettle or fridge in my bedroom now that I’ve got my own place. I had a kettle in my room when I was younger and I stayed in flatshares. I loved the convenience of it, because I didn’t always want to come out my room and face the others 🤣

I quite like bimbling down to the kitchen in the morning, emptying the dishwasher or inspecting the garden while the tea brews and then taking it back upstairs. But to be fair to DH it's a 70/30 split of who makes tea - and he makes it more.

A cup of tea in the morning in bed is one of my small joys.

Do it - we bought a hotel minibar fridge (totally silent) for the attic bedroom in our previous house.

I would get a kettle and buy these
Lakeland Semi-Skimmed Milk Pots (Pack of 120) - A07724

As someone has already suggested, why not get a teasmade?

Do it - we bought a hotel minibar fridge (totally silent) for the attic bedroom in our previous house.

I have a good coffee machine & a mini fridge in my bedroom. I don't think I'd have a kettle though. I think Swan are still selling teas-mades, that could be a non steamy option if you're not a coffee fan.

I would do it. You could go the whole hog and get a Teasmade, they do still do them. Then you can justify it because it is an alarm clock really 😉

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9104653

This is the quietest mini fridge I could find at 27db.

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8180403

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.

So instead of going to get a tea himself he would cease to function? I know it’s not the main point of this thread but I don’t get why some women enable men’s laziness like this.

Unless you have mobility or medical problems I can't think why anyone would need to do this.
It's 2 floors not 20.

We’ll be either agrees or signs up to delivering you a hot drink in bed every morning at a time to suit you without any complaints or nagging.

Hey don't you drink the tea downstairs? I can't see why you would want to take it back upstairs to drink.
But if you must have tea in bed then a kettle and fridge is a sensible option if the room is big enough

Yes I'll helpfully put the kettle on for dh whilst I'm in the kitchen but daily tea in bed?! .

I don’t see why not. Hotel rooms have little kettles and pots of teabags and sugar on one tiny shelf.

We had a loft conversion for 10 years and my partner never once failed to truck down the stairs of a morning to fetch my coffee (and breakfast in bed in the weekend). Never once did he complain!!

I would have hated to have my coffee machine, milk frother and a fridge in the bedroom. They'd all require cleaning and I'm allergic to cleaning.

I think you need to train your partner better.