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Post by flatin5th - Knight of the NC on Oct 30, 2010 19:15:44 GMT
so I don't have to go there ever again!  (and so I dont have to take the smuttiness off topic for you laydees!) Worktops? Lack of clutter? Too right - I haven't spent 2 weeks putting the things in to have other things left on them!  |
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Post by flatin5th - Knight of the NC on Oct 30, 2010 19:55:25 GMT
And I can't stand a maze of untidy wires when they can so easily be tidied up using cable ties and trucking! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by nobody on Oct 30, 2010 20:03:44 GMT
And I can't stand a maze of untidy wires when they can so easily be tidied up using cable ties and trucking! ;D ;D ;D ;D Are you really James ;D |
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Post by xjsarah on Oct 30, 2010 20:03:51 GMT
LOL!! Quite right, too, Flatin5th! ;D I can't stand my kitchen worktops being cluttered up with stuff, so anything that lives on them, but is not in immediate use, is set back against the wall, thus leaving as much space as possible. Temporary clutter is fine, as long as it is tidied up afterwards. Otherwise, using the kitchen for its intended purpose would be rendered impossible. I can live with a maze of wires as long as it is off to one side of the room, or behind a shelf, where it can't be tripped over. Isn't practicality a wonderful thing?! ;D |
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Post by flatin5th - Knight of the NC on Oct 30, 2010 20:10:25 GMT
And I can't stand a maze of untidy wires when they can so easily be tidied up using cable ties and trucking! ;D ;D ;D ;D Are you really James ;D I did one of those 'Which Top Gear Presenter are you?' quizzes and I came out as mostly Clarkson, with a lot of James, and only a little bit of Hammond! But I think that was wrong - |
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Post by jacqui on Oct 30, 2010 20:31:01 GMT
You should have called this thread "Man Lab II" ;D
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Post by Hops on Oct 31, 2010 9:18:56 GMT
Haha I love the title of this thread! ;D And I love uncluttered worktops (when they appear) ;D
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Post by Mayfayre on Oct 31, 2010 12:25:46 GMT
I had heard of these "uncluttered worktops" but never met one in the wild (I don't cont kitchen showrooms) until I saw TOH's mother's kitchen. Even the sugar bowl lives in a cupboard, I'm surprised she doesn't put the kettle away when it's not in use! I understand the principle but I can't be doing with keep having to get things out & then put them away again when you use them all the time. A few square inches of available worktop would come in handy occasionally though.  |
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Post by Hops on Oct 31, 2010 12:31:53 GMT
I had heard of these "uncluttered worktops" but never met one in the wild (I don't cont kitchen showrooms) until I saw TOH's mother's kitchen. Even the sugar bowl lives in a cupboard, I'm surprised she doesn't put the kettle away when it's not in use! MOH's mother does put the kettle away... I think it's absolutely annoying, since it's used at least twice a day. I like to have the appliances that I need on a daily basis at hand. Other things, like the mixer, belong in the cupboard. |
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Post by nobody on Oct 31, 2010 15:54:13 GMT
I had heard of these "uncluttered worktops" but never met one in the wild (I don't cont kitchen showrooms) until I saw TOH's mother's kitchen. Even the sugar bowl lives in a cupboard, I'm surprised she doesn't put the kettle away when it's not in use! MOH's mother does put the kettle away... I think it's absolutely annoying, since it's used at least twice a day. I like to have the appliances that I need on a daily basis at hand. Other things, like the mixer, belong in the cupboard. I've never know anyone who puts the kettle away before. You could lose valuable seconds in a emergency if you have to dig it out |
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Post by devil-may-care on Oct 31, 2010 16:48:54 GMT
By the way, nobody, love the quote in your signature! ;D ;D
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Post by Wyvern on Oct 31, 2010 16:54:22 GMT
A few square inches of available worktop would come in handy occasionally though. What do you mean? At least half the breadboard's free to work on... |
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Post by dit on Oct 31, 2010 17:11:00 GMT
I've been very good since I had my kitchen gutted and rebuilt last year. I have neat clutter, if such a thing is possible; on the black worktop is a black breadcrock, black coffee machine, black mugrack, also microwave and TV, so all this black kind of merges with the worktop.
What I don't have anymore is pots with untensils in, chopping boards, trivets, breadboards etc, so there's much more working space. I'm being very firm with myself and it seems to be working.
My only concession to clutter is my Poohbear biscuit pot. Well, I never said I was perfect!
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Post by flatin5th - Knight of the NC on Oct 31, 2010 17:27:27 GMT
Dit - this is how it should be! Properly co-ordinated! Oak worktops = Oak floor, oak chopping board, spice rack, breadbin etc. Doors are gloss balck, so black toaster, kettle etc! I could only get a stainless steel extractor hood that I liked, so there is some stainless in there too!
And - not even Pooh Bear biscuit barrel is allowed!
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Post by dit on Oct 31, 2010 17:38:05 GMT
My extractor hood is brushed steel (with glass) as is my kettle. Where did you get a black kettle from?
I like the sound of your kitchen, but could seriously fall out with you over my Pooh Bear. It's my quirky bit!
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Post by flatin5th - Knight of the NC on Oct 31, 2010 17:49:19 GMT
My extractor hood is brushed steel (with glass) as is my kettle. Where did you get a black kettle from? I like the sound of your kitchen, but could seriously fall out with you over my Pooh Bear. It's my quirky bit! Currys -   I also have a black resin sink - but, due to extreme clumsiness on my part, it is in two pieces and waiting to be replaced! |
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Post by dit on Oct 31, 2010 17:54:46 GMT
I like the kettle, will investigate Currys. I so rarely use a toaster that I only have a £5 jobbie from Tesco, which I keep hidden in a cupboard!
Commiserations about the sink.
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Post by Wyvern on Oct 31, 2010 17:58:01 GMT
I think it's time someone revived the Caddymatic. It keeps the tealeaves off the worktops (they do make the best tea), and that's another bit of clutter out the way. Press the button, the tealeaves go straight in the pot. Genius.
Unfortunately, they only ever came in 60s/70s kitchen colours. The one my mum had was orange. My godmother had a green one. The one I found on eBay, after almost two years of searching and getting outbid, is bright red (they all had white fittings) - and it's in my bedroom doing nothing because I don't have a kitchen to call my own. Now one in black with a chrome or steel lid and dispenser button and nozzle would be very stylish. You could use it for coffee or sugar instead of tealeaves, if you are a teabag person. I think they're fab.
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Post by xjsarah on Oct 31, 2010 18:04:00 GMT
I've never heard of the Caddymatic, but it sounds rather useful. I don't really drink tea, but I can't help thinking that I'd like to have such a gadget in my kitchen anyway! ;D |
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Post by flatin5th - Knight of the NC on Oct 31, 2010 18:08:49 GMT
I've never heard of the Caddymatic, but it sounds rather useful. I don't really drink tea, but I can't help thinking that I'd like to have such a gadget in my kitchen anyway! ;D My eldest son made a tea, and coffee, and sugar caddymatic type of thing for his GCSE project - it was very angular and made from clear acrylic! I might even still have it upstairs! |
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Post by nobody on Oct 31, 2010 18:22:46 GMT
By the way, nobody, love the quote in your signature! ;D ;D Thanks that part of the book just made me LOL. |
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Post by lew on Oct 31, 2010 19:52:33 GMT
Blimey I think I'd be hated by all my kitchen is FULL of lovely clutter....oh well, probably it's why I'm on my own ;D Oh it does have a lot of commerical kitchen utensils and equipment, and stainless, I have contacts |
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Post by Hops on Oct 31, 2010 21:04:11 GMT
Oh I don't dislike clutter, as long as it all is/looks clean.. Speaking of tea, I have special shallow shelves to put all of my tea varieties on display. It makes choosing a tea very easy (or hard, since I usually have around 50 different kinds) and it gives the kitchen a cosy atmosphere without occupying a lot of space.  |
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Post by lew on Oct 31, 2010 22:23:58 GMT
Oh all clean, just lots and lots of clutter, it makes me feel all at home ;D
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Post by dit on Oct 31, 2010 22:40:47 GMT
I do have lots of stuff, though not in the kitchen since it was done up. There's still some of the kitchen stuff in the back bedroom though, waiting to be sorted for sending to the charity shop.
I have little 'collections' of things elsewhere in the house though. I've got about a dozen paperweights and other bits of small glassware, a number of eggs of various sorts (alabaster, marble, semi-precious stones etc), same number of crystal bits, a small collectioon of fossils...They're all very clean and rearranged frequently but they do take up space.
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Post by eshalda on Oct 31, 2010 23:01:52 GMT
Ditto dit, everything you have said above applies to this household. As for collections, well where would I start..........
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Post by TheDaisy on Oct 31, 2010 23:07:56 GMT
I understand the principle but I can't be doing with keep having to get things out & then put them away again when you use them all the time. A few square inches of available worktop would come in handy occasionally though. Now I'm a lot like this. Shame about the fact that TOH must have a mild form of OCD ;D Egad, I'm surprised one of us hasn't killed the other one after all this time ;D ;D Maybe I over exaggerate slightly. But I just don't do tidy. My version of tidying the kitchen, for example, is to gather all my cruddy stuff from the table and the worktop and spend time trying to make it all fit onto one shelf in the cupboard under the sink. Depending on how much stuff I've got spread around the place, this may/may not work. Same kind of thing happens upstairs, except it gets squashed into one of the drawers under the bed ;D it can be amazing what gets found when a proper clear out of the cupboard and/or the drawer is done. I blame the fact that TOH has spent half a lifetime as a cadet/civilian instructor for the local air cadet squadron ;D this forces pack-rat approach would never suit me. |
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Post by dit on Oct 31, 2010 23:20:02 GMT
What I haven't admitted so far is that my upstairs rooms are in a state of (neatly) organised chaos. My bedroom is lovely (apart from the carrier bags stuffed with shoes and the fact that all the wardrobes are overflowing, some with stuff that hasn't been touched for years) but the back bedroom and study are in serious need of a serious sortout. A friend has told me that it will probably take me a year to get the whole job done. Ye gods!
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Post by bob on Oct 31, 2010 23:46:46 GMT
I cannot bear kitchen clutter, when i first moved in with the man his kitchen worktops were covered in junk. I cleared all the sides off and filed everything in the cupboards, ive even bought him a dishwasher to store the dirty dishes in (and go mental when he leaves used plated etc on the sides).
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Post by brycegold on Nov 1, 2010 10:18:39 GMT
It's wierd because I tend towards clutter everywhere except in the kitchen. It's the only room I ever keep constantly tidy. Not sure what that says about me but hey ho!
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(and so I dont have to take the smuttiness off topic for you laydees!)
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