hahaha... just had to share this

[mrsflibble]

my plumber came into the kitchen to update me on his progress with the new boiler this afternoon as informed me that he was so sorry, but he'd have to trail pipes around the top of my kitchen to get the gas from the inlet up to the new boiler (a replacement for the condemned back-boiler) and did I mind that they'd be copper.
mind? i gazed in wonderment around my fugly kitchen and said "do you think they'll mess up my wonderful décor?!" he told me that many women see the boilr in the catalogue and are then shocked to see that there are pipes coming from it once it's fitted... what planet are these customers living on??! i said " didn't care if they were gingerpink with purple spots so long as they do the flipping job!!!" we laughed, i made yet more cups of strong sweet tea and we all enjoyed a home made mince pie.

[Millymollymandy]

Can't he bury them in the wall? I'm one of those people who can't bear to see a pipe or electric cable - thankfully all the houses I've lived in in France have everything hidden, and boilers are always in basements or cellars anyway where pipework on display doesn't matter!

Anyway as long as you are warm and you don't mind, then that's all that matters!

[mrsflibble]

burying them would mean hacking off all the plaster and my landlord having to pay for a plasterer which after he's forked out for the boiler I'm not sure he'd do lol! honestly, once i post pics of my kitchen you'll see there's no way they could make it look worse.

[Millymollymandy]

Oh, it's rented! Pipes all around then. What are your tiles like?

[mrsflibble]

hideous

[Stonehead]

Oh, it's not so bad. I was expecting something like this...

[mrsflibble]

the chubby kid at the front does look quite like Soph...!!!

and I'd kill for a window like that! ok, I'd want glass in it but still!

[ina]

hideous

No, retro chique!

[Cassiepod]

yummy! Only in a rented house can you get something like that I quite like a lot of the dated stuff, especially if it was well built at the time. So long as it all works and your warm and happy then it's all worth it.

[Milims]

Tradespersons usually have a special tool to accommodate situations where the householder doesn't want trunking/boxing or chasing out etc - it's called a magic wand!!!

[Millymollymandy]

Ha ha ha, I have rented houses with 70s tiles a lot, LOT worse than that! At least the wallpaper is quite neutral!

[mrsflibble]

I like the pipes. they just add to the overall holliday chalet-style décor.
plumbers are all done. they would have carried on to tomorrow but one of their wives is getting induced to labour tomorrow as she's overdue and he didnt want the job to carry on so he'd miss that so I had 4 plumbers all over my house for most of today trying to get it finished.

I'll be enjoying the fruits of their labours later on when I have a hot bath and glass of hooch in my warm bathroom.

[ina]

I'll be enjoying the fruits of their labours later on when I have a hot bath and glass of hooch in my warm bathroom.

I could envy you! Hope you have a nice, relaxed bath...

[red]

Ha ha ha, I have rented houses with 70s tiles a lot, LOT worse than that! At least the wallpaper is quite neutral!

yup! our house is hideous - well teh wallpaper is.. floral 1950s-70s. and our kitchen is dark pink.... thats where the damp has not lifted it off completely..... brown flowers? you were lucky.....

[Wombat]

Looks OK to me

Perhaps that's why Mrs Wombat won't let me decorate........

Nev