[OT] I'm MAD! (as in crazy)

Emily, I found my paperwork on the freezer, its:

"Currently Unavailable". I don't know if anyone else is making one, but I sure love mine. My only regret is not getting a 7 cu. ft., as sometimes I pass on Costco frozen stuff because I don't have any more room. Then again, I probably would have filled up a 7 cu.ft. and wished for more room. ;-}

Beverly

We would have to run water supply pipes and a drain to the back porch, which is not heated or insulated. Remember, too, that the house is brick, solid brick. On a poured cement basement. Alternatively, we could stack a washer and dryer in the same footprint in the kitchen. It would be easy to add the wiring for a dryer, but venting it is another matter. It's an inside wall. In a perfect world, I would consider having a utility room built onto the house with space for the washer and dryer, perhaps a laundry tub, counter and storage. But I do like my back porch, which was added to the house early on, I'm sure. It has windows on three sides and looks out on my patios on the north side of the house.

My DH's notion has always been to put the laundry in the basement. I have nipped that notion in the bud.

It's no longer being made, apparently, but is still available at several retailers:

Curious, since it's a patented feature, and was top rated. You'd think they'd make more.

Thanks, I'd appreciate it.

I am sitting at the computer, with a phone on each side, waiting for the DGS to call me, if there is time between flights. He left Orlando, FL this morning for Houston; and has a 4-hour lay-over till his non-stop flight to Paris. He arrives sometime in the morning, and then goes on to Vienna. He returns to the US on my birthday; what a wonderful gift, especially if I am in Orlando when he gets home.

I found some CDs of conversational German at Half-Price Books and he copied them onto his computer to practice. He's certain people in most places he'll go, speak some English, but he wants to talk to them in their language. He feels as I do, "A person who speaks two languages is worth two people."

That was one of the first phrases I had to learn in Spanish class.

Emily

I've seen the small upright and the chest freezer at Wal Mart, I think. Or maybe Lowe's. Barbara in SC

What's neat about Beverly's little freezer is that it has the chest opening on top, PLUS a drawer that pulls out of the bottom. Much less likelihood of things getting forgotten in the bottom of the chest. I think it's a great design. Trying now to figure out if I could justify buying one....... And where I could put it if I did.

And mischief!!! Basket races anyone????

Sharon

> >> But "Currently Unavailable".>>

Isn't that just the way? I had never seen one like that. I got an upright freezer just because I didn't want to have to mess with digging for stuff in the bottom. Too I was always fearful the kids would see me diving into the chest freezer, push my feet in and close the lid. LOL (remember, I'm short, I'd have to do a handstand in there to get at stuff on the bottom of a normal one.)

I've been really pleased with my upright. It's in the laundry room. We did have it in the garage for a while. But that was just till we took out the preschool sized toilet and sink that were in the laundry room. Not kidding. The commode was Maybe 18" high. It was low enough the dog and the cat both thought it was a self filling water bowl since they knew human potties were much taller than that. Didn't want a toilet in the laundry room (a powder room would be nice but this was just Out There.) So DH capped it off and tiled over the opening. We replaced the wee little sink with an actual laundry sink. ;)

The point of all that was......Joanne, you could put one out in the garage if there is room.

Sharon

In our first house, the washer and dryer were in the attached garage, next to the kitchen but at the opposite end of the house from the bedrooms. :-}

When we were looking for our second home (this one), I fell hard for the 1500 sq. ft. mostly unfinished daylight basement, because it had a 12' X 15' finished laundry room (W&D hookups and deep sink), and I knew it would be perfect for my sewing room. All the plumbing was roughed in for a full bathroom right next door, which DSIL and I finished in '96. I don't mind the laundry downstairs, I count it as exercise.

We never did get all the rest of that lovely space finished, mostly it's a big semi-organized storage area. I am working bit-by-bit in culling out the unused stuff.

I may actually get the great family-TV-pool table room, kitchenette, and fourth bedroom finished, someday.....

Beverly

ROTFLOL. You would have to agree to a handicap for you youngun's. Maybe one square wheel, like on grocery carts? ;->

Beverly

I bought my basket like that from Nancy's Notions last year; it has been a tremendous help transporting clothes to and from the laundry room, which is about halfway between the 2 bedrooms. A great help!

-- Emily

Beverly, I've saved the photo so I can look for a similar one. Thanks so much.

-- Emily

Beverly, Thank you again; I just realized I did not say Thank You in the previous post.

-- Emily

It's a problem solver, Sharon, not a problem creator! And it doesn't have a steering wheel.

Sharon, the garage is in the basement. It's next to the basement bathroom and DH's sauna. And his office. There's a stool and stall shower in one section, and a vanity sink next to the sauna. All done after we bought the place. The shower drain had been cemented over so they could pull two cars into the basement, end to end. The toilet was broken from when they had left the garage door open on a cold night, and the water froze. We replaced it and put in a stall shower after we jackhammered up the cement patch. The old kitchen sink was there, and we took it out and put in a used vanity sink we got our hands on somewhere. I sort of wish we'd kept that old sink -- it was the kind that was all-in-one with the drainboard.

Joanne provided a link to several retailers.

Kinda pricey, but if you need (or only have room for) a small chest freezer this one is great!

NAYY,

Beverly

Oh, come now, Emily, I knew you were thankful. ;-)

Beverly

> I also ordered this for the adjoining entry hall (also from Macy's but I> can't find it on their site):>

Oh yes, it is! And, to be honest, I'm not surprised that you couldn't resist 'pimping' the rooms after doing the floor so nicely. Plus, if you think about it, textiles are the least expensive way to give your rooms a maximum change. OK, the rugs are not exactly cheap, but less expensive than a new couch, for example. Personally, I really like those colours you picked, gives such a nice warm glow, makes the room feel a couple of °C warmer.

Don't know if you remember my postings from three years or so ago when I talked about my wedding first. Then it was about redoing the living room and bedroom. We have all walls white, even the panelled niche where the dinner table is (DH gave it a coat of white glaze which leaves the grain of the wood still visible), only the wall behind the couch got a red wallpaper, structured a bit like vilene. I was afraid that the red might be too much, but it looks really good and I'd do it again, any time. In our bedroom, the wall opposite the windows, right behind our bedhead is done in the same wallpaper. Folks who've seen it praised the effect of the white door case against the red wall, and it really is nice.

Anyway, we're all waiting for pics, and if you show us yours I'll show you mine (as soon as I'm better and get the darned place tidied up fit for taking pics). ;-)

U.

Aw!!!! You just have to lean really hard...like you do on a sled. C'mon Joanne!!!!!!!!! Don't suck all the fun out of it.

Sharon