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john of wessex

Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Posts: 2130

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 17 7:47 am Post subject:

Ty Gwyn wrote:

Are utility rooms out of fashion these days?

I'd definitely go for both Utility & boot rooms

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 17 9:05 am Post subject:
I'd like a swimming pool and gym but then I don't that would look right in the old farm house I'd like, with 2 acres of land. Yes to utility and boot room.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 17 9:16 am Post subject:

Ty Gwyn wrote:

Are utility rooms out of fashion these days?

For me, no. But it seems a stupid place to put a washing machine. It's always seemed sensible to me to put it where the washing is. The utility room can have things that belong outside, but need frequent checking or coddling. Animal feed, boots, various garden things on their way out, light tools, batteries etc. Pets (my dining room is currently home to all of the above, including a dozen chicks and a few hundred meal worms)

I'd quite like one of these.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6DSPoVTJ9ME

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6613
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 17 11:08 am Post subject:
That's a fancy way to dress up a root cellar. I don't see how it's "based on a root cellar" and not simply just a new root cellar however. I didn't see ventilation, but it would definitely need it, so I imagine it's there somewhere.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 17 11:51 am Post subject:
Quite impressed by him (assuming it's the designer) being hardcore enough to take it to the beach with him. I thought a 50L coolbox was going it but I shall obviously have to up my game.

john of wessex

Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Posts: 2130

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 17 6:32 pm Post subject:
Generator Room? https://prestonservices.co.uk/item/portable-domestic-solid-fuel-fired-steam-driven-electrical-generator-sets/

gythagirl

Joined: 18 Feb 2010
Posts: 1467
Location: Somerset

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 17 7:38 pm Post subject:
Washing machine in the utility room because the utility room has the door to the garden where the washing line is...

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15999

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 17 7:42 am Post subject:

A cellar would be nice, but we have never had one. I have the washer, drier and freezer in the utility room, which is the end of the old kitchen, now more of a passageway, with a rather interesting selection of pipework.

I would like a house away from a main road with a garden big enough to grow vegetables, but not too big. Would also like a wood fired cooker. We have been looking at one of those for about 40 years, and am beginning to wonder if I will ever get one before I am too old to do the stoking.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 17 9:03 am Post subject:

NorthernMonkeyGirl wrote:

This is apparently common in the US (those that have machines rather than use laundrettes). There's a whole Thing about washing machines in kitchens being strange and unhygienic

I don't know about that, but it makes practical sense: clothes off to get in the bath and straight into the washing machine.
Also, we have a large bathroom here: what else to do with the space?

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 17 12:10 pm Post subject:
No no no no no... the bathroom is meant to be a sanctuary, not a laundry!

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6613
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 17 12:12 pm Post subject:

Shan wrote:

No no no no no... the bathroom is meant to be a sanctuary, not a laundry!

Just think of the acoustic cover that is provided by a working laundry machine though!

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 17 12:19 pm Post subject:

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 17 12:24 pm Post subject:

Shan wrote:

No no no no no... the bathroom is meant to be a sanctuary...

Ah, if only it were...

Bebo

Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 17 1:16 pm Post subject:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-67752140.html Walking distance of a station. That would be heaven.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 17 1:20 pm Post subject:
Still commuting then?

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