A Time of Magic

Actually, we seem to be finally seem to be on the home run with the kitchen.

Not only do we have a solid roof on the extension but the plasterer is set to come tomorrow morning to sort out the new ceiling. The new oven is even sitting on the floor though it may be a while before that actually gets installed going by the discussions with the builders on Friday.

Still, that near completion means that it’s time to start serious thinking about the new bathroom. Things like Grohe faucets,corner baths, even corner cisterns. Featuring large in this is the “wet room” concept which seems to make cleaning a whole bunch simpler.

In days of old it used to be simple to equip an office. Just buy a nice desk, chair and filing cabinets and you were all set.

These days, of course, office furniture is much more varied and generally needs to be updated too which is a nuisance. Not so long ago everyone ran with desktops so “computer desks” needed somewhere to put that tower not to mention a monster of a monitor. These days many people stick to laptops even in the office but even for those that don’t the towers are a whole lot smaller and that monster monitor is now an even larger flat screen.

There’s not even so much need for those filing cabinets these days as more and more documents move online. So, for example, the human biology course that I’m currently doing comes with course books on paper but also downloadable copies of them (how long will such dual production continue, I wonder?).

You still need that nice chair though. Probably a heavier duty one as we’ve all become a whole lot heavier over the years!

Our bathroom is, to put it mildly, ancient and in dire need of an update.

One of the things that we’ve been considering is to lurch to the opposite extreme and replace everything with an ultra-modern equivalent. Funnily enough for a house previously owned by an electrician, the oldest parts are the electrical fittings, notably the bathroom lights are 1960s vintage. Well, I say “notably” as in practice the lights were of the style that in the 1960s was felt to be super modern and they don’t look as out of date as you might have thought when I told you their age.

Now the question is: will going ultra-modern with everything mean that the look won’t date that quickly over the years?