Quick background. We bought a house last June. It's a 1930's detached Bungalow - 2 beds, large lounge and a big kitchen and dinning room. What grabbed our attention was it's potential. It was run down. huge roof space and big garden. The walls are made of what can only be described as cardboard, the heating is on it's way out and the wiring needs sorting.
The plan is to install some stairs, add 3 bedrooms and a bathroom on the new first floor. Knock through from kitchen to dinning room to make a huge kitchen dinner. We also want to create a hall way and move the lounge away from the front door. A study and kids room will also be created by adding a wall and moving the kids upstairs.
We've found a Polish builder that will undercut all others by 60% and the plans have been submitted to planning.
We plan to start work in February.
If this isn't going to be stressful enough I thought I'd write to Channel4 to see if they would be interested in documenting the project.
I'll keep you posted.
5 comments:
white house, bare brick or yellow render?
Bare brick.
What a small world. You now have a inside view of what we plan to do to the house :)
you'll have to drop me your email.
p.s. Don't be affended but I'm going to delete your first comment as I wanted to keep the location off the web.
No problem at all.
I did loads myself but it was all stuff like drains/electrical/plumbing etc. Not a great deal of visual stuff you see but then I ran out of puff.
Right, this year definitely!
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