In my apartment block in Philly, I didn't find the laundry room to be creepy, but it was still cold, poorly lit and ill-provisioned, and a ludicrous distance from my apartment. I feel very comfortable with my current stance of refusing to live anywhere without a laundry and a dishwasher. (My apartment in Ivanhoe had a European-style laundry, which is perfectly acceptable.)
Yes. Lucky for you, people may be in danger.
Buffy ,'Him'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
billytea - Aug 29, 2009 6:18:03 pm PDT #6141 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Zenkitty - Aug 29, 2009 6:18:42 pm PDT #6142 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
What is a European-style laundry?
billytea - Aug 29, 2009 6:23:17 pm PDT #6143 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Fires=scary. I can get the initial temptation not to leave because really, does this happen (but I have more warning, I'm thinking hurricanes) but...then I read up on Mt Stromlo and NO.
In the fires early this year around Melbourne, many people decided to stay and defend their homes, and wound up dying in their cars trying to flee once they saw how bad it was. However, it seems Emergency Services was negligent in not advising people of the extent of the danger.
Bec's farm was threatened by fire when she was growing up. Her parents opted to stay, with all their kids, and try to protect the place. It burned out some of their acreage, but they were very fortunate that it didn't reach the house. Seriously terrifying for small children.
billytea - Aug 29, 2009 6:24:46 pm PDT #6144 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
What is a European-style laundry?
Instead of getting its own room, it was set into a cupboard area. Saves on space.
Zenkitty - Aug 29, 2009 6:26:57 pm PDT #6145 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Oh! Why, I have one of those! Wouldn't call a space big enough to fit a full-size W/D a "cupboard", though. It's a, um, "laundry nook".
Kat - Aug 29, 2009 6:34:58 pm PDT #6146 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Like a harry potter sized cupboard maybe.
We didn't have a finished basement at all. The basement was where all the stuff went and we would occasionally play down there. My dad had a workshop, there was food storage including a chest freezer and the sewing machine was there, along with the washer and dryer.
But Ohio is damp and so even with a dehumidifier it was damp down there.
§ ita § - Aug 29, 2009 6:36:26 pm PDT #6147 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A friend of K's has to evacuate, but is considering not doing it because her house is "all I've got."
Is her staying going to save the house?
Kat - Aug 29, 2009 6:38:10 pm PDT #6148 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
ita, of course not. It's not like her presence bestows some magical Save-The-House power. I think it's idiotic.
sarameg - Aug 29, 2009 6:39:08 pm PDT #6149 of 30001
I'm really glad they painted my basement white. It isn't finished, per se. Concrete floors and cabinetry, but raw foundation plastered & painted white. I don't know if I could cope if it wasn't. It's a really visceral reaction I have to raw basements. And mine, while having a weeping wall, doesn't smell like basement. This is also critical.
Technically, parts of it aren't below ground. Front porch room is 3/4 below. To the back, well..it's 3 steps up to alley level.
quester - Aug 29, 2009 6:43:27 pm PDT #6150 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I have always hated basements because of my spider phobia. The only time we didn't have basements was when we were living in California. Tennessee was a bomb shelter...it was the '50s and we lived in Oak Ridge. Midwest houses all have basements or storm cellers.
However, I am right now living in my sister's finished basement. But, I have plug in bug repellers in every outlet!