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Kitchen (Dublin)
by Scooobydooo
I suppose that one of our main projects was the bathroom when we moved house and there was no way we could clean in a dirty room. With all over and done with. It is now time to go onto the next nightmare. What is it? The Kitchen. The kitchen is my pride and joy and let me describe it to you at the moment. turquoise with glossed ... over tiles, no units, the worst lino in the world that always looks mucky even when you have cleaned it. One unit over the sink. Washing machine pipes that are blocked and will not allow hot water to flow, so we have to put the external waste pipe taped to the tap when it is wash day. No storage space, we cut a book shelf in half to store the food in, that sits under the worktop that we got hold of.
A colony of spiders who lives in the non existing skirting boards who quite frequently pop out to say Hello Karen and nearly make me wet myself when they creep out with out any warning. Yellow, white and blue and green ceiling. One half with strip light, another with a gross old white lampshade. A door storage cupboard with another family of spiders and a door handle that does not work and does not open and shut and is a nightmare. A back door that lets more cold heat through it when it is shut rather than when it is open.
So there you go, that is my kitchen at the moment. Now money in our house is not abundant and we have to set a budget on what we spend. The budget is £1,000 for all the units and the work and decor and tiles and new appliances to compliment the kitchen. Our lovely oak dining table that cost us £600 will be going to live in their but at the moment, we know if we leave it in there it will get badly damaged.
So this is what we are doing and how on earth can we come under budget for everything when the average people spend around £5,000 alone on the kitchen.
As we have two main windows in the kitchen and a main glass plate in the back door, there is plent of light in there affording me to
have a darker terrocotta paint colour to add the warmth that it is so desperatley in need of at the moment.
I have bought 6 rolls of Bubble paper that have cost me £30. I large tub of Terrocotta paint that was £15. One tin of white emulsion paint for the ceiling £5 and 1 tin of gloss for the door £5. 2 chrome light fittings with electrician to fit will cost us £100. 5 packs of tiles to replace the old ones and grout, cost £50. So that has already cost us around £200 and so far so good, well on budget. This work will be done in the next month after we have had the draftproofing done in the kitchen on Friday.
So we are left with £800 for the flooring, appliances and kitchen units and fitting. We have ordered the units at a cost of £200 and the floor tiles were an amazing £30. so this leaves us now with around £550 for appliances. We will fit the units and repair anything that needs to be done as they will be going where the original ones once went before the last owners smashed the kitchen to smitherines. Well the appliances are reconditioned and in mint condition and for a fridge/freezer/cooker/dryer has only cost us £300. We have still got around £250 left from our budget and everything is ready and raring to go. What we do with the spare cash, I haven't got a clue but there is surely bound to be problems along the way with the electrics there fore the money will be used either for that or to put up the outside lights that are linked into the kitchen for the back garden and also for the front of house one which is linked to the hall way.
I really cannot wait to get my kitchen done as I have lived the last 6 months in a dump but rather than get a loan, we wanted to save for it. It will be a luxury to be able to turn on the cooker of sit in the kitchen eating a meal where it is nice and warm and I am really looking forward to it.
Karen :0)
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Kitchen (Dublin)
by Teve_Gtx
There slogan being 'Don't Sign Untill You've Seen Living Design' What an experience I have had with this company. A three day job has taken so far four weeks and the job is still not complete. There kitchens are very well manufactured but in my opinion the fitters they sent were very unprofessional. There work ... left a newly fitted worktop damaged, splintered panels that were roughly cut, a door with a drill hole in the wrong place and a loose plinth. Also fiited was an internal extractor hood that requires filters. I paid for an externally fitted version of which still not has been ammended. The job should of been finished at least two weeks prior to Christmas 2003. I ended up calling out an electrician on December 24th so that I had my cooker and washing machine up and running over the Christmas period. This company will not get my reccomendation at all.
The only thing I regret signing is the cheque.
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International Bar (Dublin)
by dannyada
My first visit to the international bar was chance, Dublin has so many pubs and choosing one out of all of them is tough. In the end on the way back to the hotel from dinner in the trocadero ( great ) we dived into the international bar. The bar itself is small crowded and full of very old furniture. The interessting ... thing though were the people.
The first person I spoke to was a man - 50 odd - wearing a neoprene vest (wetsuit) with a feminie haircut, (a bob) undoubtably a man he went by the name of Beverly, we got talking -it's difficult not to in Dublin - after complementing him on his unusal atire I managed to palm him off to my freind, they then started discussing the merits of various hair conditioners and colourings etc..
Behind Berverly was another guy - a builder semmed normal enough until he started talking about his carrer with MI6... expecting any minute to be told by this man that he's also been abducted by aliens I took a seat near the window ant a table full of people I'd never met before - this is Dublin
After about half an hour a large block of illegal substance started making it's way round the table - people breaking off various sizes as it rotated I decided to go and rescue my freind who had moved from "Beverly" to "Cosmic bob"
My friend was at the table behind us she was being meditated over by a hippie looking person, "cosmic Bob" he was actually trying to teach her to roll ciggerettes except rather than teach her by demonstation was trying to telepahtically transfer his knowledge to her.
As I sat and watched I noticed to more people in the corner, very nice they turned out to be aswell if you could ignore the fact that they both looked like they were either about to go to jail, had just got out of jail or were about to be arrested for something they were very good fun.
After the cosmic session to my right had been conclu
ded with a rather negative result - she still can't roll ciggerettes we decided that is was time to leave.
We were only in the international bar for about two hours, but it was the single most bizare evening of my life.. every time we go back to Dublin it's our first stop, every time we have a good night, and every time some thing weird happens.
So if you do go - Saturday is best - be prepared for a bizare experience, talk to as many people as you can have fun
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