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Speaking of which, we've got planning permission, the OK from the upstairs neighbours, final designs nailed down with our architect so for us the demolition should start early next week. Can't believe it's all finally about to happen!
We have a lovely south facing garden which we've split with the neighbours so that we can bash out the wall and bathroom at the end that currently block all the light, put glass doors and a big skylight in at the end and move the bathroom and toilet to the side so a new kitchen/diner flows down the whole length of the space.
Putting in some floor to ceiling glass with larch cladding (which is being mirrored in the fencing we've already mostly put up) for privacy and a sliding glass door out to the side return, as well as a sunken ofuro (Japanese bath) sticking out into the garden in a glass box to make it a bit more interesting.
Basic thinking is heavily influenced by modernist stuff, especially some buildings we saw in California such as the Schindler House. The aim is to get as much light as possible into the kitchen which will have a polished concrete floor and a lot of white, while the bathroom/toilet will be a lot more Japanese influenced, specifically by Junichiro Tanizaki's In Praise of Shadows, so it will be much darker but with dappled light provided by the larch cladding to give a luxurious kind of feel: we're looking at using quite dark decorative micro cement on the walls but offsetting with exposed copper pipes and so on. Plus there'll be the view out of the bath of course, looking out onto our (already fairly well established) bamboo grove :)
Current feeling a combination of excited/totally bricking it!