The House Projects Thread

[ste]

Loft will obviously be extended into the new part too. Will add an extra velux up there. That'll then be quite a huge space, but I'll keep it 'unofficial' rather than declare it as a bedroom or something. I don't want to have to start meeting regs up there.

[Jobbo]

Ste, have you got the current floorplans which you can post? From the elevations it looks like you're building a whole extra house worth of floor area

Our house was built in 1966, had only been owned by the first occupiers and was bought from probate too. Fortunately, they'd actually done some maintenance, replacement and an extension over the years so it's not been nearly as interesting to live with as your place. The kitchen is from about 1978, almost modern

[ste]

Err, I should have, let me have a look and redact any address details etc.

Essentially only the garage area is new area though. The current garage will become the TV and utility. The extension to the back of the kitchen technically replaces the previous conservatory that was there when the plans were drawn up (and passed).

[ste]

Here you go:

[GG.]

I particularly like that your house has a beard on the drawings, Ste

[ZedLeg]

That's a substantial garage Ste

[ste]

Ha, wife calls it The House Beard.

Cos I'm dead funny and that, when the gardner comes and does a trim I write 'Trimming wife's bush' on the bank transfer. I'm so silly.

[ste]

That's a substantial garage Ste

It was the biggest angst when doing the plans. I had it seperate initially which would obviously have meant a lot of living space, but cost made me move it back into the main structure. I was then kind of tied to keeping it to match the existing other side of the house. So it could fit 4 cars, but you never would as it'd be a bit of a squeeze. I basically wanted something I can have 2 cars in, with room to work on one and still have room for proper work benches etc. I'm now thinking of partitioning off the back area, maybe so my office can be back there with a big window into whatever's in the garage. Maybe partition off 2 bits so I can have an office and a bit of a gym. Can do that myself in stud walls post-build though.

Essentially, now we can afford to finally do this, Mrs Ste has recently decided she'd actually quite like to move. So depending on how that pans out we may do things to make it more marketable. Not many people will want a garage that big, whereas a gym and office will be more in demand / saleable.

With that in mind I'm also considering building in block and rendering the whole thing. Traditional Sussex is render and hung-tile top half and those properties seem to be in demand. Even had plans drawn up for that but we can't decide so haven't submitted them.

[Jobbo]

Err, I should have, let me have a look and redact any address details etc.

Essentially only the garage area is new area though. The current garage will become the TV and utility. The extension to the back of the kitchen technically replaces the previous conservatory that was there when the plans were drawn up (and passed).

I was thinking about how a builder prices it rather than how a planner considers it. I imagine there's no part of the old conservatory base which is useful for the extension, for instance.

And she wants to move?! That's got to be to a different location entirely, surely? Because you could either do up your existing house and stay in it (which would be most pleasant, I'm sure), or do the extension and have free rein to make the house exactly to suit you.

You should suggest to her that you go on Love It or List It with Phil & Kirsty

[Swervin_Mervin]

House Update

<Lots of cool stuff>

Anyway, here's the plans that we had approved a few years ago.

Hopefully not too many years ago.

[ste]

They expired once. We had to re-submit.In fact, I need to check how long we have left, they may be close to expiring again.

Jobbo - same village probably but further out. She wants more land basically. We should do well from this, we bought it cheap and will add loads of value; I guess it'll open up opportunities and it'd be silly not to at least investigate them.

[Swervin_Mervin]

They expired once. We had to re-submit.In fact, I need to check how long we have left, they may be close to expiring again.

At least you're aware of it - we deal with so many massive developers that seem rather disappointed when they're made aware their permissions have lapsed

[DeskJockey]

Scaffolding for render work gone up today. Builder decided they'd like to work over the weekend, who am I to say no?

Council has refunded half the planning fees without having to chase them, so that's a nice upside.

[ste]

...they may be close to expiring again.

Bollocks, expired a few months ago. Also looking at the planning website the drawings I posted here aren't even the final ones, the conservatory has a totally different roof for one.

Best make a decision re. render or not and get them re-submitted this weekend.

[IanF]

I’ve always been a big fan of single colour kitchens, but I looked at this house recently and it works well. Those bi-folds are 15ft high for scale.

[Carlos]

4.5m high bifold doors , not in that photo ?

[integrale_evo]

Not unless the breakfast bar is 6ft tall

[IanF]

4.5m high bifold doors , not in that photo ?

No? They are chest high seats and check the height of the parasol outside?

[Simon]

[Mito Man]

4.5m high bifold doors , not in that photo ?

No? They are chest high seats and check the height of the parasol outside?

The doorway on the right looks standard height, in which case the bifold doors look no higher than 2.5m - and the parasol would fit be shorter than that.