**Official SINGLES THREAD 9-11 MAY** On Singles and DIY

9th May 2008 | Snugs

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Does your home reflect your single status including your attitudes towards it or are they formed from childhood and how your parents home was like.

Is your home functional, decorative, needs attention and somewhat tired or well maintained and modern? If you had a partner do you think it would be different?

Daveloneranger gave a few single spins on the topic.

Would a guy who can “DIY” be somehow more attractive to a lady?

If he was not a pratical person either around the house or with cars/bikes or other machines would that make him somehow less attractive, appealing or at least “marketable”?

On the otherhand does women doing DIY stuff etc more or less appealing to men?

What got me to think about this subject was that we had an insurance claim due to a roof leak part of the claim covered redecoration to the bathroom and painting/wall papering one of the bedrooms and papering landing, drop and hallway. This led me to start the painting and thinking about flooring upstairs and in the hallway that needed to be done. This kicked started me whereas before I was quite content to live in the tired look of the home.

This had happened after mum became too old to do the DIY dad as long as things function is not too worried about it looking modern and prestine and as for matching well he would never notice. I am very similar in some ways and go for function above matching and look but this insurance claim gave me the opportunity to actually have a few areas of the house that do match and are more modern.

I would surmise for me I am quite happy to live in tired but functional house but if kicked started can enjoy and want something better and probably if I had a partner who was into the DIY etc would be more into it.

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In progress photos

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Included in the insurance claim was also decorating the middle bedroom which I have now moved into. The mantlepiece painting was not included so this is my handwork.

[Little Bill]

Hob = Burner(s), in the US.

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We only use the word burners if gas if electric they are elements or rings.

[Nowhere Man]

I hope you soon get another job be thinking of you.

Thanks, I'll be needing it, one "good" thing, I could use a little vacation, haven't really had a day off, except for illness or holiday in over 4 years. I only missed 3 days of work due to illness, I got that terrible flu back in February.

[Nowhere Man]

Stove is an old fashioned English word for a cooker my nan used to refer to our cooker as a stove and my dad still does. Interestingly though he also refers to our electric and when we had one gas fire as a stove.

We say "stove" over here too although "range" is also used. Some people over here still say "icebox" (like my late aunt) for refrigerator. Some also say "Frigidare," which is a brand name refrigerator, I have one from 1938 that still works.

A potholder in Britain is the square shape oven cloth. We also have oven mits or gloves.

Pretty much the same here too.

We also say truck in fact I would say if you are under 50 in Britain you would use the word truck and lorry over 50 probably mainly lorry. We often use the term rig for the cab only.

Over there, we use "rig" too although more often, I've heard "tractor," "semi" or if a trailer is attached "10/14/18 wheeler." A low laying trailer is called a "lowboy," I once saw a "lowboy" loaded with two M-60 tanks when I was driving down on I-5 in California just outside of Bakersfield, it was back in 1987.

Sometimes various regions over here have their own terms, here in Pittsburgh, we use the term "gum band" for "rubber band" although a former boss of mine had a friend from the UK who called them "elastics."

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Rubber band and elastic band both terms are used in Britain.

The word just elastic is normally used in connection with sewing when you want to elasticate something.

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We also use the term tractor unit but most people in Britain unless in the freight business think of a tractor as this

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Hello snugs!

I LOVE DIY projects. Not for themselves, though; for the house. We have a big old house, formerly a convent, and it was falling down. Been rehabbing it for years, loving every minute!

I was raised by an unusually intelligent and academically oriented mother (the absent-minded professor sort) and my father died when I was very young, so we had to hire people or shift for ourselves.

I learned a lot about home improvement and a lot about men. The doctors and lawyers and bankers out there, aren’t nearly as appealing as the plumbers and paper hangers and landscapers.

Moreover, when you see the doctor or the lawyer or the banker coming, you’re not particularly happy to see them. But when the fellow comes to get things done, it’s “Oh thank Heavens you’re here!”

If I ever get married and have kids, I promised Mom long ago I’d make sure they got vocational training, even if they’re geniuses.

Thanks for posting the pics! They’re great (as always!)