For the 8th time...............May Babies!

[egypt]

well hello

lol - so who does your dad recommend (that's in the same sort of price range, obviously!)

B&Q's good quality and value (we had one in our old flat and it said so on a Which report)

Unfortunately, B&Q is that little bit too far away - it's hard work with two littlies anyway without dragging them further afield.

just chatted to casmie, but fyi twiglett, my dad agrees with you.

Ooooo dilemma. Homebase bland and bleugh... nothing took our fancy. Wickes seen quite a nice one - prefer the cupboards, slightly better quality although less intelligent design on some of them... but the little "extras" like sink finishes etc were a bit uninspired - much prefered the MFI one.

Dragging out to B&Q this afternoon. May go back to Wickes for a quote depending on how this afternoon goes...

... hate you all, knew what I wanted this morning (only joking!)

sometimes i really wonder why do i bother!!
went out shopping, came home and started cooking for ds - really lovely turkey/courgettes + potatoes (in lemon/sweet cream sauce) - and??? he fell asleep on me while i fed him
oh my! guess this is our destiny from now on

awww casmie! it's difficult, isn't it? i hated having the builders around. had to decide so many things and kitchen esp!!! hope you'll find what you want really soon.

Casmie - what about Ikea carcasses and carpenter made fronts?

We are moving once we have found a house we like spots - finally decided on Shelford, but there have only been about 3 houses in our budget and the right size that have come up there in the last year - might end up buying somthing that is not right and doing a big building job. I can't wait to get into my own house - this one is big, but that just means more cleaning, and I want a home - not just somewhere to live. I want to decorate, and note my kids heights on a wall somewhere knowing that their kids will see them in years to come.

Bad night last night ddddds slept from 8pm to 9am, but dd is ill with a hacking cough and temp, and slept practically all afternoon, so didin't go to sleep until 10.30last night, then woke up at 3 and threw up all over the landing. I cleaned up and got her settled, jsut drifted back to sleep when she woke again. We got her tucked into bed between us, drifted back to sleep again and she threw up again all over me! She seems abit better this am though.

Oh and Twiglett - Series 3 of ANTM started on UK lIving last night - did you see it?

Ikea is completely out - WAY too far away.

Plus I've been looking at our current kitchen and that's pretty ropey construction (although it's the best kitchen we've ever had, lol) and I just don't notice it day to day! As a new property chances are it was a Howdens (i.e. MFI trade) and it's survived a good 10 years and still looks nice. If we weren't extending then we wouldn't even consider replacing it...

Problem is, I'm just confusing myself with choice, I think!!! Dh has just pointed out that what with ds2's sleep times and travel times, we're going to get about 10 mins at B&Q before closing time this afternoon

Casmie I had a moment of wondering, in my fetishistic love of other people's domestic detail, what you did with all your frozen EBM when you defrosted the freezer? Seem to remember you had rather a lot...

It was all gone - I stopped expressing a good while ago, and a lot of it went out of date ( sniff ) so none left to worry about...

Georgina .. go in to B&Q on your own to check out the doors but arrange for them to come to you

they're great .. they measure up and plan it and leave you with colour print outs to think about .. you don't need to have the whole family traipsing round

or have a look on their website to narrow it down .. B&Q

Yeah, looked at the website earlier and none of B&Q's kitchens caught my eye - think it's going to be Wickes tbh... really liked their soft-close cupboard doors - will see if I can find a picture...

We're going to go for cheap bumpy white tiles to go behind with some sort of trim (get something cheap from B&Q or Homebase - will still look quite nice but won't break the bank). What I'm stuck with now is the flooring. Ideally would like something as cheap as possible, easy to clean & maintain. Would have liked ceramic tiling but I think we're going to be pushing it financially. Any ideas?

vinyl ... get the floor tiles so you can replace them easily (I like the black and white ones personally in the standard checkerboard effect)

or marmoleum .. slightly more expensive but still better than tiles

just remind yourself that if you were paying for natural slate / stone you'd also have to fork out for underfloor heating or risk frozzled toesies

or laminate flooring if that's your style (but you'll need the special water resistant ones)

vinyl floor tiles at B&Q

Think the marmoleum sounds a good idea... will investigate Allied or similar next weekend I think (need to sort out carpet for the study & dining room anyway).

Marmoleum is gorgeous, do it do it. Fact: linleum, of which Marmoleum is only existing brand name, has naturally antiseptic properties. Great crawling baby option. (and it's gorgeous.)

Cat - just wanted to say that I was thinking of you for tomorrow. Hope all goes well. Ring me if you need to chat.

xxx

of course - yes - Cat, hugs and kisses {{{}}}xxxx for tomorrow. Come and have a whisky with us at the end of the day. Will be thinking about you.

me too cat! been thinking of you ((((((hugs)))))))

oh my! you better watch channel 5 now
3 celebs and a baby!!! soooo funny!!!

wow casmie! you seem to do serious decorating - how many rooms?????

Susi - the extension should give us three extra rooms along the back - one on the back of our current dining room which we're going to use for dh's study (he's working from home quite a bit at the moment); one on the back of our current kitchen - which we'll make into a walk through area of the kitchen (sort of a semi-utility area, but will have the fridge/freezer in, etc); and a room on the back of our garage - which will be our new dining room (again, open plan from the kitchen - making an L shape). We'll then use our old dining room as a play area for the kids.

We're not talking huge rooms here (it's an extra 2.7m out from the house), but should give us considerably more space in a well-organised way.

sounds great! it's just so much nicer to have all these seperate rooms! - can't imagine how we lived before we moved over here. - now i've got 2 rooms and no idea what to do with them
but i don't envy you the building works! hope it'll go smoothly!
we also need to do lots of decoration still. but first lucas was too young for any paint or similar. and now we decided to do the heating first - it needs to be done in the whole house - will be happier once that's over and done with!

I'm not thinking of the building works too much, just going to take it a day at a time

Eeep... heating. That's a job and a half - don't envy you that!

lol, wanna swap???? - although we need a new bathroom too
will it ever end????