making over a kitchen and bathroom

[bluebell]

I have a very old kitchen and bathroom - they are 1970's? The bathroom suite is cast iron bath and porcelain close coupled toilet and avocado colour.

I would like a new one but have problems getting it done!

Is there anything I can do that's is fairly easy ( ie cannot do DIY - in my day girls did cooking and needlework and boys did carpentry/ metalwork and hammering in nails etc.) to cover up all the stains on the bath?

Also my kitchen is a 1970's/80's fitted one ( its a sort of linen weave coloured one - pale beige if anyone remembers when those were around ) . The worksurface is very stained now, especially round the sink where it seems to be going rusty ( OH tells me this is because the sink brackets are rusting out and coming through on the surface) and I was wondering if there was anyway I could re cover it . I had thought of painting but dont think it would work somehow.

Does putting new doors on old base units work? I would like to have some new doors . I have a drawer unit which was replaced recently because the old one broke and now the rest looks a bit odd. The new drawer unit is gloss white.

Anyone know anyway to make a kitchen and bathroom over nicely when they are old like mine.

I would have them changed but my OH is being difficult. ( he is a plumber!!!!!!!)

[News Groups]

30 years old? All needs ripping out.

[Andrew Mawson]

bathroom

You'll be sorry! They'll all be collectors items going on the Antiques Roadshow in no time flat. I remember my parents hating Victorian style with the ferver I apply to 1930's stuff that people now seem to drool over Now where are my flairs and kipper tie?

AWEM

[bluebell]

Except I cant. If you have read my other thread you will understand why. My husband ( a plumber by trade and a skinflint by nature) thinks that if something is still working ( ir water comes out of the taps , no leaks, no drips ( and even if there were drips he would just change the tap washer - five minutes) and nothing smells , it does not need ripping out.

So I have an old bathroom and an old kitchen and I have to make do and mend . ( No we are not of the war time generation, I was born in the 1960's although he is a fities model). I blame the government and the emphasis on recycling and saving the bloody planet myself. This is why I have no kitchen and no new bathroom. If it works, why spend resources on a new one and create waste?

[Owain]

Have you ever thought of a good fire, and get it all done on the insurance?

Owain

[Frank Erskine]

... thereby sharing the cost around all of us...

;-)