Bargain of this year!

[canalsiderenovation]

You'll remember our quote for ideas for our dressing room/walk in wardrobe being about £7k purpose built. Ikea PAX was coming in a about £2k for just the frames plus we wanted island, dressing table etc and it didn't quite fit our space.

 

Have just got around 10 metres of Porcelanosa walk in wardrobe/dressing room units plus 1.2m island and dressing table for £1000. It's more units than what we need but we can adjust the configuration to suit and due to the height I'm thinking they will need to go through our windows (good job it's a bungalow) and potentially hacked in/may need magic man to sort out any minor marks. Hopefully won't be noticable when they are fitted.

 

Unfortunately didn't include the granite island top and dressing table granite top but we can explore alternatives to use as worktops.

 

So excited!!!!!

[Onoff]

43 minutes ago, canalsiderenovation said:

So excited!!!!!

 

& you just can't hide it. 

 

Can't get The Pointer Sisters out if my head now...

[Bonner]

Do tell, where did you find such a bargain Ebay, FB market?

[canalsiderenovation]

Just now, Bonner said:

Do tell, where did you find such a bargain Ebay, FB market?

 

A very poorly advertised item on t'internet that didn't mention the make in it but we went to look at it 3 hours away, original invoice was close to £40k. Builder removed items from a swanky house he is working on so presume he had them for free or at a low price and thought he'd take the chance on storing them and selling. Also had some very expensive kitchen appliances that he was told to skip which I guess he will try and flog. 

[canalsiderenovation]

18 minutes ago, Onoff said:

 

& you just can't hide it. 

 

Can't get The Pointer Sisters out if my head now...

 

I can't get Crunchie out of my head now..... And there is no chocolate in the house anywhere....

[ToughButterCup]

2 minutes ago, canalsiderenovation said:

 

I can't get Crunchie out of my head now..... And there is no chocolate in the house anywhere....

 

None here either.... I'll just nip out and get some.....

[MikeGrahamT21]

26 minutes ago, canalsiderenovation said:

 

A very poorly advertised item on t'internet that didn't mention the make in it but we went to look at it 3 hours away, original invoice was close to £40k. Builder removed items from a swanky house he is working on so presume he had them for free or at a low price and thought he'd take the chance on storing them and selling. Also had some very expensive kitchen appliances that he was told to skip which I guess he will try and flog. 

How the other half live hey!

 

Great find for us normal folk though lol

[canalsiderenovation]

16 minutes ago, MikeGrahamT21 said:

How the other half live hey!

 

Great find for us normal folk though lol

 

Indeed. I didn't even realise Porcelanosa did walk in wardrobes/fitted dressing rooms. We had our hearth tiles from there and they weren't cheap! 

 

My only worry is it's not got doors it's an open wardrobe sort and I still think it will look messy but the wife says she is organizing everything by colour and it will look like her Pinterest board of walk in wardrobes, hmmm.

[joe90]

1 hour ago, canalsiderenovation said:

the wife says she is organizing everything

It’s her job to keep it tidy then ?

[canalsiderenovation]

Phew it's all in, had to come in through the window. Here's some pics of what it looked like before it was moved. We just need to try and sort through it all and get it hacked in. Odd couple of scratches we may need to get magicman to sort and then a worktop but we have a dressing room/walk in wardrobe!

 

[Faz]

Looking good mate - like the idea of the island though not sure what it would be used for. Might see if I can do something similar although time is running out for changes....

[Ferdinand]

4 minutes ago, Faz said:

Looking good mate - like the idea of the island though not sure what it would be used for. Might see if I can do something similar although time is running out for changes....

 

Chasing games, or to hold the fondue.

[canalsiderenovation]

15 minutes ago, Faz said:

Looking good mate - like the idea of the island though not sure what it would be used for. Might see if I can do something similar although time is running out for changes....

 

Plonking stuff on!

[Dave Jones]

[Onoff]

20 minutes ago, Dave Jones said:

 

In the next scene O'Neil and Jackson use the teleporter to transport the bomb to Ra's ship and the ensuing blast destroys the ship in space, along with Ra.

[canalsiderenovation]

On 05/09/2021 at 18:26, Onoff said:

 

In the next scene O'Neil and Jackson use the teleporter to transport the bomb to Ra's ship and the ensuing blast destroys the ship in space, along with Ra.

 

Our 'ship' has done well this week, we have been up to Llangollen!

 

 

[markc]

On 05/09/2021 at 18:26, Onoff said:

 

In the next scene O'Neil and Jackson use the teleporter to transport the bomb to Ra's ship and the ensuing blast destroys the ship in space, along with Ra.

Rings beat public transport any day

[markc]

25 minutes ago, canalsiderenovation said:

 

Our 'ship' has done well this week, we have been up to Llangollen!

 

 

Very nice Llangollen is gorgeous in the sun

[joe90]

45 minutes ago, canalsiderenovation said:

Our 'ship' has done well this week, we have been up to Llangollen!

Been there, done that, yes lovely place. Did you find looking over the side opposite the path scary?, no fence/barrier and a ,long way down , Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.

Edited September 11, 2021 by joe90

[canalsiderenovation]

57 minutes ago, joe90 said:

Been there, done that, yes lovely place. Did you find looking over the side opposite the path scary?, no fence/barrier and a ,long way down , Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.

 

Very much so, not helped by the fact I had to run over 2-3 times to check it was clear the other way. The 'narrows' up to the basin/marina were challenging too as it was one way.

[SteamyTea]

4 hours ago, canalsiderenovation said:

Our 'ship' has done well this week, we have been up to Llangollen

Did you manage to see how they fitted the balustrade in place.

Might be useful for a when people ask how to fit one to their stairs.

 

 

[ProDave]

5 hours ago, canalsiderenovation said:

 

Very much so, not helped by the fact I had to run over 2-3 times to check it was clear the other way. The 'narrows' up to the basin/marina were challenging too as it was one way.

You tend to be okay approaching Llangollen late afternoon, few boats leaving then, and leaving in the morning, few boats arriving then. 

 

SWMBO went below for the aqueduct crossing, the drop on the non towpath side frightened her.  But I did persuade her to then walk along the towpath to the middle of the aqueduct.

[canalsiderenovation]

Here it is, less than £1700 all in with the quartz worktops, wardrobes and fitting. Only minor gripe is that as our dressing table was in a slightly different place than it was originally fitted and connected to things and as we don't have it connected to anything you can see where the skirting was cut and in hindsight we should have had the worktop longer so the joiner could have put an end piece on. There will be a standing mirror there so you won't see it and perhaps we can think of something to put there to cover it.

 

Needless to say we are putting clothes into something not made of cardboard tonight ?

 

  

[ProDave]

I missed the bit about HOW you got the worktop lifted up?

[canalsiderenovation]

19 minutes ago, ProDave said:

I missed the bit about HOW you got the worktop lifted up?

 

The lovely joiner guy plus me and the wife! Who knew the joiner does a lot of weight training ??