New Stuff
We got some much needed new stuff this week.
1. Laundry shelf. Our little laundry room lacked any storage space beyond the window sill, but the wall above the sink was empty. I picked up this shelf last week at Howard’s Storage World. My friend Albert came over last weekend with his hammer drill (since our walls are all masonry) to help us hang it. I am ridiculously pleased with my little shelf. (In my Elizabeth Bennet voice: “Shelves in the laundry! Happy thought indeed.”)
2. Kitchen shelf/bars. We approached the big empty space above the kitchen sink as both a challenge and an opportunity. The Snook has long desired to HANG THINGS in his kitchen. With that in mind, we picked up a bunch of Grundtal accessories from IKEA a few weeks ago. Albert helped the Snook hang them. We’ve got two shelves across the top, two bars across the middle, a hanging spice rack, a bunch of hooks, and a magnetic knife rack. Now we just need to decide what else we’re going to put on it!
3. My new Campers. Most mornings I walk by the Camper shop in the QVB in the city, and every day for some weeks now I’ve looked at these shoes in the window. Last night Miss Fee turned up at the TC SnB with a Camper bag of her own. Their sale was still on, she said, and she was happy to accompany me there afterwards. My shoes were on sale for 50% off! I couldn’t resist. They’re very comfy.
missfee
January 25, 2008 — 3:57 pm
YAY for campers and camper enablers….
welcome to the club – there is no leaving it now…..
Campers today Fluvogs and then the world hahahaahh
patrick
January 25, 2008 — 4:14 pm
I can get behind you on one point at least— Magnetic knife racks for the win. That is all.
(Except… do I see a Global vegetable cleaver, santoku-style paring knife and… I can’t quite make out the third one… serrated utility?)
Kris
January 25, 2008 — 5:07 pm
Good eyes! We’ve actually got four Globals. Vegetal peeler, paring knife, serrated knife, and the one on the far right is a carving knife. In the middle are our non-Global chef’s knife and bread knife.
Shan
January 26, 2008 — 7:54 am
We don’t have a knife block for our knives – they came in a briefcase if you can believe it. Bought them at some big home show. I’ve been toying with the idea of that magnetic knife rack, but I wanted to see how big it was. Thanks =) Now I’ll be getting it.
Kris
January 27, 2008 — 10:59 am
I think you can get lots of different size and shape magnetic blocks. In our old flat we had a smaller wooden one (with magnetic stripes embedded down the center) screwed under one of the cupboards. The only problem with that arrangement was that I kept knocking the handles with my hand and dropping knives into the counter. Not good. At least this way they’re out of the way of accidental bumpage.