| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| marigold |
Isn't that AMAZING darlings?Kirsty furnished her entire second home for only £23,000
Read all about it! |
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| vegplot |
Re: Isn't that AMAZING darlings?
I'd do it for 15 shillings and sixpence (in 1415). |
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| marigold |
I've just been sitting here vaguely totting up how much my furniture cost me and it struck me that the computer, printer etc probably cost almost as much as all my furniture and kitchen equipment put together  .
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| Effie |
She really does sound like a blathery fool. | ||||
| cab |
I wonder if that includes central heating, windows, etc? | ||||
| Bebo |
If it does £23,000 isn't that bad (she says having paid the best part of £7k for a new heating system 18months ago). |
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| lottie |
My new kitchen is being delivered on the 27th---and I am still apalled by the fact that it'll cost considerably more than my first house ---a really sobering thought for me about how things have changed.
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| Bebo |
Our kitchen units cost less than a third of the price of the work surfaces 
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| cab |
Built ours mostly with ikea stuff. Cost about a grand or so. | ||||
| marigold |
I suppose it depends on how you define furniture - to me it's tables, chairs, sofas, beds etc. Agas and fridges I consider to be household equipment rather than furniture. Windows and central heating are part of the structure. The stuff in my house that I call furniture cost about £2k (a lot of it cost nothing at all!), kitchen equipment (cooker, microwave, washing machine, fridge, freezer) adds another thousand or so. Dunno what the soft furnishings, bedding, books and my personal belongings add up to, but they would probably cost a lot more to replace than they did to buy .
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| lottie |
The furniture in the rest of the bungalow is cheap as chips as nothing from my previous life fitted except the beds and I wanted to save my money for the kitchen  ---already delayed having it done last year 'cos one of my kids needed the money.
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| cab |
*sits stroking desk bought in three pieces from Oxfam and restored at the cost of very little money but a bit of time* | ||||
| vegplot |
Does the stroking make it bigger? |
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| cab |
No, but it reminds me that waxing helped. |
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| kirsty |
I have to admire my famous namesake for her frugality.
Mind you, she does have a seroius shoe habit which probably meant that she couldn't really splash out too much. (Probably the only thing we have in common  )
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| lottie |
The one thing we have kept is a bookcase that came from a chapel that my husband restored---I was sad to leave furniture we'd bought from auctions over the years---nothing antique just solid victorian--but you can't move from a large 6 bed house to a small bungalow without compromises, and sending it back to the saleroom helped the downsizing and stopping work fund 
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| mousjoos |
I used to make "made to measure" furniture & kitchens for a living, but I still bought ours from B&Q, due to lack of time. |