On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:41:09 -0800 (PST), stevelup
wrote:

snips

The front room at this house is half the size of the one where we
lived before which is what prompted my to bury everything in the
walls. It cost twice as much as it would have done with everything in
the room but we've saved an awful lot of space.

I like the idea though. Does it work well? I was given a 42" Plasma
recently [1] but there is nowhere in this 3 bed Victorian cottage to
put it!

Yup. When I was buying this place on my own some 30 years ago whilst
working for BT it was all I could do to buy the place and afford the
materials. Hours and hours of evenings and weekends disappeared in new
floors and removing chimney breasts, rewiring (well wiring as there
wasn't much in here), running gas, water etc etc left me pretty
d-i-y'd out.

Sounds a lot more challenging than my projects!

Well, not really, just more of it maybe. Like when we built the Kit
car. Many people (at that time) had done the various bit's involved in
building a car when repairing one, they just hadn't done them all at
the same time! ;-)

Now it's just a matter of keeping things working and enjoying
ourselves outside the house!

That will come before too long hopefully... Garden next after the
inside of the house!

Garden, noo, we aren't *that* old g! No, motorcycling, cycling,
boating, power kite flying / bugging, RC modeling, clay shooting,
archery, camping .... ;-)

All the best ..

T i m

[1] A chippy mate was given id from a trendy clothes shop when doing
some shop fitting in there and gave it to me when he replaced it with
an LCD jobby. I think there is some slight burn-in on the screen but I
thought it might make a good Wii screen. ;-)