I'm glad I'm not being pressured to remodel our kitchen. It's not new and shiny but it's not too bad either. I should go an fix one cabinet door, though. It was a bit stupidly designed. It's the door to a compartment in a corner where kettles are kept. Two doors are attached to each other and one of the hinges keeping the outer door is broken.
I would like to have the main bathroom and sauna renovated at some point. I'm unwilling to take a loan for it as it works perfectly and nothing is broken. I think it has some 5-8 years to go before it should be renovated. The house is new enough for the building code to have been demanding enough at the time of construction to increase the life time of the waterproofing as much as to give us plenty of time before it must be renovated.
Those corner cupboard hinges never seem to last that long - it has something to do with the weight of the doors and the stress created. The newer ones might be better, but I am glad we won't have a corner cupboard at all :)
The codes sure have changed a lot and we are kind of lucky in that the person who built this house, was a housing developer, so didn't skimp that much on the basics. The kitchen now though is from the previous owners and it is a horror in the way it has been designed and is not overly functional for cooking - I'd have expected more from Puustelli - but it could be that the owners designed it themselves.
Sauna and basement is on the "one day" list for us...
I can't understand why the outer door could not have been simply attached to the other side.
Yep - I have had the same thoughts.