The decorations went back in the loft today. We completely failed to do anything about clearing that part of the loft while they were out, which is a bit pathetic. We had some reasons: we were ill, which pushed everythign behind, then it was Christmas, and then there was stuff and then... well, here we are.
My Mum is coming to stay and I've had to excavate the guest room. Stuff was binned, stuff was charity shopped (well, it's in the boot of my car waiting for me to go to the charity shop) , stuff was stored neatly... and some stuff was put in a pile of other stuff in the box room, waiting to go in the loft. Except there isn't any room.
We did go up there together, took a look at that end of the loft, and agreed on how we could improve the storage. But doing it will have to wait until Mum has been and gone, and then my grandson has been and gone. I may engage help in getting stuff out, which will, hopefully, leave me enough energy to review and organise. We'll see.
On the Success! front, we've done yet more stuff to the kitchen. DH has trouble with the concealed drawers, mainly because I fill the drawer below too full. We were discussing the tip-on (push to open) runners which are part of the two under plinth drawer units we bought. We have a couple of concealed drawers which have already have tip on runners, and we discussed making all the concealed drawers have tip on runners. We bought some bits to see if DH could do a conversion: I bought some preloved tip on runners from Ebay, and DH bought some bits to convert the actual drawers from the Blum Warehouse. We did 3 to start with, and it turns out that they work really well.
We then decided to go ahead and do all the concealed drawers, so I bought more preloved runners and DH ordered more bits. I then bought an additional mahoosive concealed drawer (as part of my continuing efforts to try and move everything to its final home), which was a Marketplace bargain. This was so big (900 wide and 500 deep) that I had to buy a longer preloved runner, and DH had to order yet more bits.
DH also fitted one of the plinth drawers (the other is going under a tower unit, and we have to raise the tower unit to the correct height first). It works really well, and will look great when we put a front on it.
We weer so pleased with it that we've now ordered a made to measure plinth drawer for under the sink unit as well. It'll be another week or more before that arrives.
We're still waiting for the Blum Warehouse bits to arrive, they were on shutdown until Monday and then didn't have everything in stock at that point. In the meantime, DH has installed the runners, all of which arrived really promptly. My mahoosive drawer enabled me to move many many lots of contents around, trying to stick to my mantra of everything being in a sensible place. I'm tempted to write it all down here for my own nostalgic reference, but it's not exactly scintillating stuff.
The base units now have the right things in them, and most of the units are in the right place. One run needs a reshuffle, and I guess we will do that when we get the replacement fronts, which I ordered at the same time as ordering the two wall units.
I don't imagine we will make a huge amount of progress over the next week as I'll have other priorities.
