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Only a quilter
Our refrigerator died. I mean big time absolutely un-recoverably died.
Compressor, fan, water tubes to the ice maker - everything - beyond repair. Buy a new one? Only expensive but still not easy. FIRST ! I don't WANT a big stainless steel 800 lb gorilla sitting in my beautiful kitchen. Bisque is a delicate silly word for off white but I've aimed the guys to the word off-white. They do that okay. Fun watching Mr. Esther going to find something for supper and the fridge is empty. Worse is Yogi when it's time for a Good Boy post-evening walk. Not there anymore. Everything is somewhere else. Ice chests are good. Yorkies don't much tolerate variations to their routines. But - do I ever get to the point? How is this about quilters? Well. A 'standard' double door refrigerator measures 35 and maybe 63/64ths . . . for no reason. Just is. Easy for me to inspect and consider what's available by putting my left index finger to my nose and stretching my right hand pointer finger out as far as it will go. Doing? said the nice refrigerator guy. Measuring. |
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Den 19-06-2012 05:45, Polly Esther skrev:
Our refrigerator died. I mean big time absolutely un-recoverably died. Compressor, fan, water tubes to the ice maker - everything - beyond repair. Buy a new one? Only expensive but still not easy. FIRST ! I don't WANT a big stainless steel 800 lb gorilla sitting in my beautiful kitchen. Bisque is a delicate silly word for off white but I've aimed the guys to the word off-white. They do that okay. Fun watching Mr. Esther going to find something for supper and the fridge is empty. Worse is Yogi when it's time for a Good Boy post-evening walk. Not there anymore. Everything is somewhere else. Ice chests are good. Yorkies don't much tolerate variations to their routines. But - do I ever get to the point? How is this about quilters? Well. A 'standard' double door refrigerator measures 35 and maybe 63/64ths . . . for no reason. Just is. Easy for me to inspect and consider what's available by putting my left index finger to my nose and stretching my right hand pointer finger out as far as it will go. Doing? said the nice refrigerator guy. Measuring. Here, most refrigerators are about 1/4 inch narrower than a standard kitchen unit (which is 60 cm). This allows the fridge to just "slide" into place between two units. However 63/64 inch is a bit small of an allowance for that kind of thing... Bisque is pretty fashionable here for kitchens, so hopefully you'll be able to find something that fits both size and colourwise. Hanne in DK |
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I feel your pain! My kettle died last week: no measuring problems, BUT
I wanted a white one. What was available (in the only shop open at that time in the evening)? Black, black and more black ... for a kettle?! I left them all there and microwaved my water for tea until the morning when I could go to a sensible shop and get a white one .... .. In message , Polly Esther writes Our refrigerator died. I mean big time absolutely un-recoverably died. Compressor, fan, water tubes to the ice maker - everything - beyond repair. Buy a new one? Only expensive but still not easy. FIRST ! I don't WANT a big stainless steel 800 lb gorilla sitting in my beautiful kitchen. Bisque is a delicate silly word for off white but I've aimed the guys to the word off-white. They do that okay. Fun watching Mr. Esther going to find something for supper and the fridge is empty. Worse is Yogi when it's time for a Good Boy post-evening walk. Not there anymore. Everything is somewhere else. Ice chests are good. Yorkies don't much tolerate variations to their routines. But - do I ever get to the point? How is this about quilters? Well. A 'standard' double door refrigerator measures 35 and maybe 63/64ths . . . for no reason. Just is. Easy for me to inspect and consider what's available by putting my left index finger to my nose and stretching my right hand pointer finger out as far as it will go. Doing? said the nice refrigerator guy. Measuring. -- Best Regards Pat on the Green |
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I'm a coward. I go for plain ol' white for all appliances and all fixtures like tubs, toilets and sinks. I've seen waayyyyy too many houses with what *used to be* fashionable colors and then can't find those colors when they need some replacement parts. Like the turquoise toilet with a white lid set..... Ugh!
Have fun (and good luck) finding The Perfect Fridge and sorry Yogi's routine has been messed up! Poor lil' guy. ;-) Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. On Monday, June 18, 2012 10:45:10 PM UTC-5, Polly Esther wrote: Our refrigerator died. I mean big time absolutely un-recoverably died. Compressor, fan, water tubes to the ice maker - everything - beyond repair. |
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Oh, Polly! Think of all the entertainment you'll give those sales
guys/girls as you measure out "just shy of a yard"! They'll be talking about you for ages! I hope you find something suitable. I know stainless looks nice, but I'm with you - give me old-fashioned bisque any day! Louise in Iowa nieland1390@mchsidotcom On 6/18/2012 10:45 PM, Polly Esther wrote: Our refrigerator died. I mean big time absolutely un-recoverably died. Compressor, fan, water tubes to the ice maker - everything - beyond repair. Buy a new one? Only expensive but still not easy. FIRST ! I don't WANT a big stainless steel 800 lb gorilla sitting in my beautiful kitchen. Bisque is a delicate silly word for off white but I've aimed the guys to the word off-white. They do that okay. Fun watching Mr. Esther going to find something for supper and the fridge is empty. Worse is Yogi when it's time for a Good Boy post-evening walk. Not there anymore. Everything is somewhere else. Ice chests are good. Yorkies don't much tolerate variations to their routines. But - do I ever get to the point? How is this about quilters? Well. A 'standard' double door refrigerator measures 35 and maybe 63/64ths . . . for no reason. Just is. Easy for me to inspect and consider what's available by putting my left index finger to my nose and stretching my right hand pointer finger out as far as it will go. Doing? said the nice refrigerator guy. Measuring. |
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I doubt even a matching toilet lid set would much help a turquiose toilet
Leslie. lol We've been house shopping and golly are there some ugly combinations! Here you really need to go with a low water toilet and those are mostly new and white,thankfully. I used to have all bisque appliances but went over to stainless because for resale that is the way to go here. A friend has an all new kitchen in white and it is handsome but I really think the bisque/off white is my favorite. Many houses we've seen have such a mishmash of colors it would be nice just to have matched sets,color is irrelevant! Happy shopping to Polly! Taria "Leslie & The Furbabies in MO." wrote in message ... I'm a coward. I go for plain ol' white for all appliances and all fixtures like tubs, toilets and sinks. I've seen waayyyyy too many houses with what *used to be* fashionable colors and then can't find those colors when they need some replacement parts. Like the turquoise toilet with a white lid set..... Ugh! Have fun (and good luck) finding The Perfect Fridge and sorry Yogi's routine has been messed up! Poor lil' guy. ;-) Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. |
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I often use the distance between by stretched out thumb and little
finger as a guesstimate of 8 inches when I don't have a ruler - gotta remember the 36 inch equivalent for some time when I'm not measuring fabric! Stainless may look nice but then there'd be no place for fridge magnets and my favorite comics that have been cut out of the paper. We have quite a collection by now....Apparently a friend of my daughter would check the fridge every time she visited to see what was new! LOL Allison On 19/06/2012 8:38 AM, Louise in Iowa wrote: Oh, Polly! Think of all the entertainment you'll give those sales guys/girls as you measure out "just shy of a yard"! They'll be talking about you for ages! I hope you find something suitable. I know stainless looks nice, but I'm with you - give me old-fashioned bisque any day! Louise in Iowa nieland1390@mchsidotcom On 6/18/2012 10:45 PM, Polly Esther wrote: Our refrigerator died. I mean big time absolutely un-recoverably died. Compressor, fan, water tubes to the ice maker - everything - beyond repair. Buy a new one? Only expensive but still not easy. FIRST ! I don't WANT a big stainless steel 800 lb gorilla sitting in my beautiful kitchen. Bisque is a delicate silly word for off white but I've aimed the guys to the word off-white. They do that okay. Fun watching Mr. Esther going to find something for supper and the fridge is empty. Worse is Yogi when it's time for a Good Boy post-evening walk. Not there anymore. Everything is somewhere else. Ice chests are good. Yorkies don't much tolerate variations to their routines. But - do I ever get to the point? How is this about quilters? Well. A 'standard' double door refrigerator measures 35 and maybe 63/64ths . . . for no reason. Just is. Easy for me to inspect and consider what's available by putting my left index finger to my nose and stretching my right hand pointer finger out as far as it will go. Doing? said the nice refrigerator guy. Measuring. |
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Now OT water saving toilets
I brag on my new-fangled (to me!) toilet every chance I get. VBG It was installed a year ago in my little 120 y.o. Victorian cottage. It is very inexpensive to purchase and has a water holding dump-bucket inside the tank (no condensation problems in our hot and humid Missouri summers!) and only uses 1.28 gal. of water per flush. (The write-up at Home Depot says it uses 1.6 gal. but it's stamped right on it as 1.28 gal.) It's rated a 10 for "flush power" on a scale of 1 to 10. The lid/seat that comes with it is flimsy and I chose to replace that.
http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1...3#BVRRWidgetID You're welcome! ;-) Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. |
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I'm with you -- white is my preference. You can always match it when you
have to replace one piece. Stainless seems to me to look so industrial and collects fingerprints like crazy. I have enough trouble keeping my small stainless trash can looking half-way decent. I don't like the textured white either; give me a smooth finish that's easy to wipe clean. Polly, don't forget to consider refrigerator height if you have a cabinet above. Make sure you've got clearance for it. I bought a new refrigerator about 3 years ago. The old one was 20+ years old and I didn't want to be in the situation where I have to buy one very quickly and settle for whatever is available. I got one with the pullout freezer on the bottom; I really like that -- my refrigerator stuff is more eye-level and I don't have stuff falling out of the freezer every time I open the door. Julia in MN On 6/19/2012 6:49 AM, Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. wrote: I'm a coward. I go for plain ol' white for all appliances and all fixtures like tubs, toilets and sinks. I've seen waayyyyy too many houses with what *used to be* fashionable colors and then can't find those colors when they need some replacement parts. Like the turquoise toilet with a white lid set..... Ugh! Have fun (and good luck) finding The Perfect Fridge and sorry Yogi's routine has been messed up! Poor lil' guy. ;-) Leslie& The Furbabies in MO. On Monday, June 18, 2012 10:45:10 PM UTC-5, Polly Esther wrote: Our refrigerator died. I mean big time absolutely un-recoverably died. Compressor, fan, water tubes to the ice maker - everything - beyond repair. Buy a new one? Only expensive but still not easy. FIRST ! I don't WANT a big stainless steel 800 lb gorilla sitting in my beautiful kitchen. Bisque is a delicate silly word for off white but I've aimed the guys to the word off-white. They do that okay. Fun watching Mr. Esther going to find something for supper and the fridge is empty. Worse is Yogi when it's time for a Good Boy post-evening walk. Not there anymore. Everything is somewhere else. Ice chests are good. Yorkies don't much tolerate variations to their routines. But - do I ever get to the point? How is this about quilters? Well. A 'standard' double door refrigerator measures 35 and maybe 63/64ths . . . for no reason. Just is. Easy for me to inspect and consider what's available by putting my left index finger to my nose and stretching my right hand pointer finger out as far as it will go. Doing? said the nice refrigerator guy. Measuring. -- ----------- This message has been scanned for viruses by Norton Anti-Virus http://webpages.charter.net/jaccola/default.html ----------- |
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Good point, Julia but height is not an issue. The nice cabinetmaker (quite
a wonderful artist) was surprised that I didn't want an over the refrigerator cabinet. I wanted a little tv in the kitchen and that seemed to be a 'safe from splatters' place. You've reminded me why I hope I don't have to settle for stainless. When our offspring were young, our kitchen was stainless. It would have been a fine place for beginning fbi guys to practice fingerprint recovery. "Julia in MN" wrote in message ... I'm with you -- white is my preference. You can always match it when you have to replace one piece. Stainless seems to me to look so industrial and collects fingerprints like crazy. I have enough trouble keeping my small stainless trash can looking half-way decent. I don't like the textured white either; give me a smooth finish that's easy to wipe clean. Polly, don't forget to consider refrigerator height if you have a cabinet above. Make sure you've got clearance for it. I bought a new refrigerator about 3 years ago. The old one was 20+ years old and I didn't want to be in the situation where I have to buy one very quickly and settle for whatever is available. I got one with the pullout freezer on the bottom; I really like that -- my refrigerator stuff is more eye-level and I don't have stuff falling out of the freezer every time I open the door. Julia in MN On 6/19/2012 6:49 AM, Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. wrote: I'm a coward. I go for plain ol' white for all appliances and all fixtures like tubs, toilets and sinks. I've seen waayyyyy too many houses with what *used to be* fashionable colors and then can't find those colors when they need some replacement parts. Like the turquoise toilet with a white lid set..... Ugh! Have fun (and good luck) finding The Perfect Fridge and sorry Yogi's routine has been messed up! Poor lil' guy. ;-) Leslie& The Furbabies in MO. On Monday, June 18, 2012 10:45:10 PM UTC-5, Polly Esther wrote: Our refrigerator died. I mean big time absolutely un-recoverably died. Compressor, fan, water tubes to the ice maker - everything - beyond repair. Buy a new one? Only expensive but still not easy. FIRST ! I don't WANT a big stainless steel 800 lb gorilla sitting in my beautiful kitchen. Bisque is a delicate silly word for off white but I've aimed the guys to the word off-white. They do that okay. Fun watching Mr. Esther going to find something for supper and the fridge is empty. Worse is Yogi when it's time for a Good Boy post-evening walk. Not there anymore. Everything is somewhere else. Ice chests are good. Yorkies don't much tolerate variations to their routines. But - do I ever get to the point? How is this about quilters? Well. A 'standard' double door refrigerator measures 35 and maybe 63/64ths . . . for no reason. Just is. Easy for me to inspect and consider what's available by putting my left index finger to my nose and stretching my right hand pointer finger out as far as it will go. Doing? said the nice refrigerator guy. Measuring. -- ----------- This message has been scanned for viruses by Norton Anti-Virus http://webpages.charter.net/jaccola/default.html ----------- |
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