Our table is both functional and sentimental @Lamb Chopped. It has been made using the tabletop from Cheery husband's grandfather's dining table. It was our dining table too for many years, but we replaced it not long after moving to our current house.
The table was offered to other family members but no one was interested in it, so Cheery husband set about re-using it. We were able to score some drawer units from the Swedish shop's ex-display section, and the table top was added with timber sides constructed to hide the drawer units. It looked like an oversized coffee table. Now the top has been removed, a large tray added on top of the drawers and then the top re attached with (almost) standing desk hinges affixing the table top to the new tray. It can be moved out of the way to give access to the tray section and Cheery husband is re-attaching the original table skirt back on to the table top to disguise the walls of the new tray section.
It is nice to be re-using the table-top and putting it to good use to improve the look of what is essentially a large storage chest. Both boys in my house love their Lego and as Cheery husband's Grandfather was keen on hobbies himself, we hope he would approve.
Mrs RR has finished emptying, not the house, but our v.small greenhouse. Wow! Next, her studio .... this could take some time. I have to rationalise my model-making stuff. But who to give it to? I appears lots of us modelling oldies are 'decluttering' at the same time.
I’m clearing my small study ready for the decorator. It has just dawned on me that as well as removing everything I ought to actually sort the contents, not just put it all back unsorted.
We "inherited" a large coffee table, about six feet long and three wide, which my husband turned into a Lego table for our son. He went out and got wood boards to put around the edges of the table so the Lego wouldn't fall off (as you do), but the genius of it came when he got ornamental scrolly type wood pieces--the kind you see on old porches for architectural interest?--which he attached to the standing boards, perpendicular to the standing boards but parallel to the table top, so that in effect the table turned into a large swirly picture frame with a huge shallow rectangular pan behind (beneath) it, if that makes sense. And there's room on each swirly wood bit to park a small Lego creation to be admired.
We are going to have to clear out most of the house and move into temporary accommodation because the house needs underpinning. The saga began last July and they have just got to the stage of agreeing that yes, it might be a good idea if we moved out while major structural work on both the upstairs and downstairs of the house is taking place. And they'll ask the builders who are doing the actual work to talk to us about what needs to happen and exactly what we need to move where. Another month or so of uncertainty, then.
Meanwhile, my husband has grudgingly agreed that it might be a good idea to start packing up his beloved model railway.
I misplaced something small but vital to me - my pedometer. It doubles up as a watch as I hate wearing watches and hate even more getting my phone out to check the time. I know it was here yesterday, and I've looked in all the usual places.... nothing.
So, since moving furniture to see if it had gone underneath or behind anything had become inevitable I steeled myself to deal with the stored recycling and the cleaning/re-sorting/rearranging of the bags and boxes.
The pedometer is still AWOL, but numerous neglected places are a lot cleaner.
@Jane R we had to have the first place we bought together underpinned. I was pregnant at the time so all rather stressful but worth it in the end. The insurance paid for our rental place, which was actually somewhat nice than the flat we were living in.
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The table was offered to other family members but no one was interested in it, so Cheery husband set about re-using it. We were able to score some drawer units from the Swedish shop's ex-display section, and the table top was added with timber sides constructed to hide the drawer units. It looked like an oversized coffee table. Now the top has been removed, a large tray added on top of the drawers and then the top re attached with (almost) standing desk hinges affixing the table top to the new tray. It can be moved out of the way to give access to the tray section and Cheery husband is re-attaching the original table skirt back on to the table top to disguise the walls of the new tray section.
It is nice to be re-using the table-top and putting it to good use to improve the look of what is essentially a large storage chest. Both boys in my house love their Lego and as Cheery husband's Grandfather was keen on hobbies himself, we hope he would approve.
Meanwhile, my husband has grudgingly agreed that it might be a good idea to start packing up his beloved model railway.
So, since moving furniture to see if it had gone underneath or behind anything had become inevitable I steeled myself to deal with the stored recycling and the cleaning/re-sorting/rearranging of the bags and boxes.
The pedometer is still AWOL, but numerous neglected places are a lot cleaner.
Thank you. I've now ordered a new one... I'll report back if the old one turns up!