How many kitchens can one man need?
We bought this 1930s semi-detached house in the UK in 2018. We spent about 80k on gutting this house and making it ours. This is our first house and definitely looked at the purchase as an investment, so we were only really looking at houses that needed a large renovation, but we definitely bit off a lot here. Our contractor commented a few times on the "liberties" and "creativity" of whoever did the plumbing and electrics during a remodel probably sometime around the 1970s when the large back room was added.
The kitchen and downstairs bathrooms were moved, every wall and ceiling was re-plastered, the whole house was repainted, the original hardwood floors were re-finished, and everywhere that didn't have original flooring got tiled or new engineered hardwood. We redid the electrics and plumbing, got new radiators, and installed can lights throughout the house. We are very lucky as my husband's step-father is a retired architect, and he helped us with changing the downstairs layout. We had to hire an engineer to help us with installing 3 steel beams that hold up the upstairs of the house after taking out the central chimney breast in the house. Outside, we put in a patio and had some massive bushes and dead trees cut down.
We started renovations in July 2019 which was ongoing until lockdown in March 2020, at which point everything was put on hold. At that point, the only thing left to do was paint the entire house and refinish the original floors, so we lived like that for more than a year. We're expecting a baby (any day now!) which pushed us to finish it all up, and the painters left a week ago. We decided to take photos in the same angles as the original listing photos from when we first saw the house, to show how far we've come.
Edit: I've added a before and after layout of the downstairs of the house for clarity of the changes we made with moving walls and rooms to the imgur post. :)
Edit 2: to comply with post requirements!
Our kitchen
Cabinets from Howden's (I believe the Chelford line) cost £4800
Countertop is quartz from Merchant House cost £3600
Refrigerator is Samsung RS5500k cost £1100
Dishwasher is Bosch Serie 6 cost £620
Extractor is Franke 90cm Extractor cost £419
Stove is Rangemaster Infusion cost £1800
Engineered hardwood flooring is from UK Flooring Direct cost £2800
All tiling from Topps Tiles cost £870
3 new windows from Alpha windows cost £1400
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Do your worst!
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
You take away their little brooms
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
Buenosdillas
It’s pronounced “Noel.”
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Nothing, it just waved
Bob
So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."
Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.
Just to clarify, 12345678
Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...
Notices there's only 2;
Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."
I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.
I was just sitting there doing nothing.
There hasn't been a post all year!
