Matt tiles. Oak floor. (terracotta is rubbish in a kitchen)

Hmmm. Interesting. I agree on the floor. The part that has been demolished had a terracotta floor with a black and white border (not my taste or choice but hey ho!), so it would feel good to be rid of the last vestiges.

Are you any good with bathrooms too? This one will be a blank canvas. 8'x7'6" room with a very large West facing window that floods with late afternoon sun and sunsets. It's currently painted in burnt orange with gold flake lacquer, which I will own up to as being my taste, and has an original roll top bath with gold coloured ball and claw feet. Unfortunately, the bath is totally impractical.

Large honed natural stone floor tiles; not polished. I have anxiety that I will slip on a wet floor

Brick walls covered with ceramic tiles.
If the walls are some type of timber construction then you need to be very very careful that the wall cladding does not allow water penetration.

I've been reasonably successful with bathrooms since a fairly early age.

Gold flake eh? With orange. Hmn... could be worse, harvest gold, for example.

I take it that the ball and claw feet can be removed from the tub. Take them to a plater and tell them what colour you want. You could have them glass beaded (matt finish), Shot blasted or peened (look like cast), or leave them polished.

You could try painting them, but use an epoxy if you want it to stand up. Or take them to a shop which does powder coating.

You could close in the space under the bath with hard styro and tile it, but it would look like '70s crap.

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Well, running the terrible risk of de-railing this thread (but hopefully the OP will be back soon and it will get back on-track), if you and JW want to make a go for it with you in your sumo suit (and your lovely OH is compliant), here's how Marilyn did it in her last place, terracotta and all (not my taste, but went for about USD 3'5 million - and that 6 years ago):

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Derailing the thread? Nah, don't you worry about that. A proper conversation about the latest Maserati would be in order now.

You have no idea how entertaining!

Most probably I won't be able to catch up with this thread till late in the evening and I'm already missing it.

Don't stress, you know how it will go - we had countertops, oversize photos of Tom's guitars will probably follow soon, we had Phos's demand for erotic something, we had arrogance and mob talk, book bragging, grammatical pedantry, shit countries and and after the shit stirring - a faint hint on charitable spirit..there was enough patronizing so I predict a bit of good will today. The EF meteo also predicts a slight increase of cat memes, probably also more countertops or fishtalk, coming from the warmer climatic front. People with opposing views might get a bit of acceptance, Friday is almost here.

Nothing unusual - typical day on EF

PS: moving memes don't post on my cheap as* cell, people, post some funny not moving ones? Ta.

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No way! It's a funny one. There is a cat on the grass coming closer to an automatic yard water sprayer and once he gets his nose to it, the water starts and the cat jumps.

Silly cat

I have been here for over a year now and I find the swiss people are nice once you get to know them. Of course, you will run into a person who doesn't like the foreigner, but that is everywhere you go.
However, if you do not like the country then I think you should look for something else. Money is not everything.

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Maybe because you are likeable.

There's a lot of truth in that. People usually mirror the person they are interacting with. If you exclude those who are serial hot-heads, or those who are just having a bad day/life themselves, and you consider the average person, I find the general rule of thumb is you will receive the same treatment you are giving out.

OH - Μιχαήλ mou - is The One and it took far too long to find him to ever risk that, no matter how eloquent JW is. Johnny Depp had his chance, but let himself down badly and has gone to seed into the bargain. Even if Josh Holloway swam an ocean to find me (in Davidoff 'Cool Water' style), I'd have to say...

"No Josh! Just no lad! I have my Greek god now so you'll just have to swim away, you toned, chiselled, smouldering, moody piece of physical perfection you!"

As for Marilyn's kitchen, I quite like it, but the heavy wood roof is a tad oppressive. In a World where money were no object, I'd have gone for this with oak instead of mahogany worktops, and complete with mirror balls

Now where were we...?

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Of course. And people pay attention to what they are looking out for, and then attract even more of it. I often take a person's feedback as more indicative of the person than what they report of.

I think the Swiss are wonderful.

Bees to honey, and flies to..... what?

Totally agree.

The Swiss people I know are very much like the people from my home town. They don't like brash, ostentatious people with a sense of entitlement. They say "grüezi" to you when you pass in the street. In my home town, people say "Oreet" in the same way. They appreciate good manners and a sense of humour. They're mildy inquisitive, in that, they like to be able to 'place' you, where you're from, and why you're here, and light up when you ask them about themselves. They're incredibly generous and appreciate small, reciprocal gestures rather than expensive gifts. But best of all, when you scratch the surface, they know how to party.

What about the folk with a Ph.D ?

Indeed.

But in Switzerland, those are normally sex parties!

Tom

Some only have a Masters... in baiting.

There are too many "Bachelors" as well who are looking forward to get l..d I mean paid. The intranet world belongs to BS

"they know how to party" and how. Last Sunday we went to a sort of wine festival where they boil whole hams in water with vine leaves and who knows what. We had a couple of bottles and a coffee with schnapps then were about to leave when one of our local friends turned up and started offering bottles of wine and kaffeeschnapps like crazy. Then some others joined us.
Luckily the event closed at 5pm so we could politely leave at 7!

Then last Friday was the closing party this year for the weekly market.......