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We had the house rewired and are now (months later) getting around to patching and painting walls. The living room has a woodchip wallpaper-like texture (but it's paint, not wallpaper) - I thought I'd be able to buy a tin of "Lumpy Paint" and match the texture easily, but I can't find anything. Every article is about how to get rid of texture, rather than repair it.

Guess I'm just going to have to buy some paint and experiment??

Hard agree. We've got a full 1.5cm drop. Getting the washing machine under the counter with the back legs adjusted was an exercise in perseverance.

Please tile under the units!! It's just cork/you'll save about £4 not doing it.

Or one day someone will move in and remove the kickboard and spend an eternity in the kitchen pondering why you chose not to tile beneath.

No. Also in a radon affected area, and close to an old asbestos factory. The exposure is tiny.

The makita one is good, if you already have the batteries for it.

Apart from the 30s one and the 50s one they all look like totally normal houses.

"This trend for grey at the moment – I can’t bear it. Everything is grey. People are even painting the exterior of their houses grey! I need colour in my life."

I do feel this way about dark grey carpet (and hexagonal bathroom tiles and gold taps, but especially the grey carpet). It looks awful and depressing.

Are the existing boards reasonably flat (no massive peaks/troughs)? Because if so cork underlay + engineered wood would probably work. If massive peaks and troughs, I would probably rectify that by replacing individual boards/shimming/trimming, rather than trying to fix it by adding more stuff on top.

We are going to go for the above (levelling the subfloor by replacing boards) + cork + bamboo.

@Señor_Bear are you laying the tiles end-to-end, or staggering them (like bricks/railway tiles?)

I went for the second option - thought it looked much better/more seamless, especially once sealed.

Interesting. We are going for a 70s theme in our house.

I like woodchip wallpaper. I think it's going to make a come back.

I don't miss London sourdough prices. Big loaf of organic sourdough £2.80 in Yorkshire.

Amazon is not good. I understand that it's the right combination of convenience and price for huge swathes of the population, but at a cost to its employees/the planet/your future self when you need to purchase something but it's an amazon double-plus-prime product and you don't have enough amazon credits to purchase it.

Wow! Definitely worth it - amazing what a difference it makes, visually.

Wish the ground would thaw so that I could get to planting. And that my online seed orders would arrive! Am really hoping to get started early this year (my first with a garden)!

Also bought a hotbin on impulse, and am now hoarding food and garden waste in anticipation of its arrival.

The coloured grout looks great.

Somewhat oblique...

At the bottom they shall go!

I have a slope on which I want to plant fruit bushes, including blueberries. The soil is slightly acidic, but will need supplementing. Is it better to plant the blueberries at the top (supplement may wash out and run down?) or at the bottom (won't lose acidic material, but water will percolate through the less acidic soil before it reaches the shrubs?

I'm leaning towards planting at the bottom, as they're also less likely to dry out that way.

Ah, ok. Well, whatever - we get used to everything. Eventually you'll learn to love cleaning those crevasses!

Why couldn't they be higher/up against the ceiling?

When I eventually get around to putting in a new kitchen the cabinets are going to abut the ceiling and have totally flat faces. I've devoted enough of my life to cleaning grease off surfaces.

I think you're joking, but I'm not sure.

Very clean! But the gap on top of the cupboards is making me angry - such a tiny gap is worse than a huge gap.

Lovely tiles. The whole house looks great - what's the kitchen like??

Oh. I've just realised our kettle is a knock-off stelton kettle/that I lack both originality and funds.

Recycled glass worktops (like the one below) - hideous or delightful?

Have also lifted loads. Just use a pry bar. Or a large flathead screwdriver and something solid to lever it on.

Eta - should have refreshed the page.

Ingenious but incredibly laborious!