Owning your own home

up to 50% of the total area of land around your original house

As at it's footprint in 1948

@OneLessCardigan We need a posh looking brew shed

Brew shed/man cave...

I'm sure your neighbours would love living next door to Steptoe and Sons...

Angle grinder/plasma cutter, bi-fold doors, cover it in ivy and bob's yer uncle.

Genuine recyling and therefore more ecologically sound. As long as you give your neighbours plenty of warning, they won't moan.

All in for a couple of grand leaving more for bikes!

Ha! Will you carry it through the house?

Over the house dear boy, over the house...

As @Tenderloin said, we bought the house for £550k in November. 5% (a usual guide estimate) is £27.5k. The office was a shade under £17k.

Even with room for error, I'm comfortable with the fact that the investment has increased the value of the house by as much, if not more than I paid for it.

Anyone can make money in a rising market...

This has got me thinking about having one at the end of our garden but once the planned extension comes in, I wonder how big the garden would be.

I think that garden looks great now

Bathhousesaunashippingcontainer

Was going to correct you and say lady cave but that sounds like a euph

It's going to cost you more than a couple of grand - crane hire + road closure = pricey. Hammersmith and Fulham charge £2127, for example. Half decent bi-fold doors aren't cheap either. Our good quality but relatively budget bi-folds cost £2500.

I'm with you on the recycling bit. I don't actually think the neighbours would mind if it was done properly and fairly quickly, just don't think they'd be keen on an old shipping container rusting away at the bottom of the garden!

Cheers.

Electrics were completed today. Just waiting for the Internet to be fixed up on Wednesday then we'll get the back part finished w/ 20mm grey granite and a raised bed for veg. Should be done by Saturday.

"Pop Bromley"

It's true there are thousands hanging around that need putting to use (cheaper to make a new one than ship back empty to china) but if you're doing any significant alterations to the walls you need to add a lot of structural steel to get the strength back. Plus the fact it's probably coated in some pretty nasty paint and fungicide/insecticide.

5% seems a bit arbitrary (given the possible variation in original price) but the main thing is you're doing it early on and getting full use of the improvement. Sadly our current garden isn't big enough for a proper shed but we looked at getting a loft extension before we move and have been advised it's not worth the disruption for an unknown ROI, if we're not going get any use out of it.

Similar thoughts - we're planning on tacking on another ground and first floor at the back which would shrink the garden by about a third. There'd still be room for an office (and permissible under the 50% point mentioned up thread) but, coming from a flat, a long garden isn't something I want to give up in a hurry.

We've had one in our garden for the last 6 months. Would make a cosy man-cave if not already full of all our shit.
Doesn't massively enhance the view of the garden though TBH.

Doesn't conjure up the best of mental images, does it.

All you'd be doing is cutting some holes for services as well as the side wall for the apparently omnipresent, on trend bi-fold doors and then sealing up the doors at the end.

Shouldn't be too difficult for anyone with half a clue.

It's not going to support a great deal of weight (like another storey) so should be structurally sound as it is. Look at container city...

If you've got a spare £30k you could do something like this:

Val Doonican's weekend retreat?

Giles Winton-Smith

Because he's a nice balance between good and good value.

And also because he has the most middle-class name evah.

Found something then?

I lol'd.

But isn't this Val Doonican's weekend retreat;