Owning your own home

What's the low level bit next to the washing machine?
And not planning on getting built in Fridge/Freezer?

It's a wall, within which is a cupboard. Difficult to model these things in the Ikea planner. Attached is a floorplan which makes it a bit easier to understand.

Fridge-freezer: current plan is to use the one we have in the convenient recess. Space is available above this for the microwave. A built-in fridge freezer would be nice, but not sure where it could go. (and budget doesn't allow)

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This week's four figure surprise.

Careful, it's only Monday.

I'm reading the work you've done with a mixture of admiration for it being done 'right', and trepidation having recently bought a semi detached nearby in not dissimilar condition, complete with some old bomb damage.

There's no way anyone could have seen that. It was both behind plaster and above a ceiling.

bomb damage

!!!

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You haven't got much cupboard space with this. Is there a reason you are not going all the way round underneath the window? You could relatively easily get/build a half height shelving thing for the bit to the left of the washing machine so the counter would be continuous.

Random assorted thoughts -

1. Is the wall that the cooker on a chimney breast? Although expensive
   you could have a cooker extractor thing in front of the window and
   extract air to the outside?
   
2. Having a sink > prep > cooker is usually a good thing so if there was a way to get that in, it would be ideal
   
3. You could use some 40cm reduced depth full height cupboards for a portion of the chimney breast if you went all the way round the window which would open up your sitting bit by removing the breakfast bar.
   
4. It might be nice to swap the draining rack to the other side so that you have somewhere above the dishwasher for dirty/clean dishes?
   

Fair enough - looked like an outside wall from the pic.

You've definitely had more than your fair share of misfortune so far though...

I agree with this. It's been a flippin nightmare.

Feel for you, for sure.

At least it will be done properly and look amazing when finished.

Looks nice! Personally I'd find the getting into the dining table area annoying, imagine trying to squeeze two people through there. You could make up a bit more room by shuffling everything back a little and defo get a built in fridge (ok, thats a personal opinion thing).
I'd also reduce the bench or just bin it off for a dishwasher and more worktop space.

Seconded moving the dining area. It looks like that would be a squeeze at times. Plus that area could then be utilized as kitchen space.

Could the idea for the bench then be incorporated into the dining area? - scrap that I've just seen your note above.

Looks nice! Personally I'd find the getting into the dining table area annoying, imagine trying to squeeze two people through there. You could make up a bit more room by shuffling everything back a little and defo get a built in fridge (ok, thats a personal opinion thing).
I'd also reduce the bench or just bin it off for a dishwasher and more worktop space.

Actually I'd reverse the whole thing, dining by a window would be miles nicer.

Had that with the back wall of our place - Victorian mid-terrace. It was hidden behind wooden panelling in the kitchen. No footings on back wall so complete rebuild - happy days :(

This is my future too. We're planning to knock it all down in 3 years anyway and build an extension so we need to make it last until then.

I agree with all this, do feel the constraints on drainage mean that moving wet utilities to the current table location would be much harder. But it would be nice.

The utility room door would rather get in the way of a dining table adjacent the window, I think. Worth noting I've had the dining table in the lcoation as shown on the plan for 4 years and whilst it's a bit cosy, its fine given we are two people in a 1-bed flat...

Edit: totally agree on the dishwasher. There's a slimline one snuck into the built-in units by the sink :)

bomb damage

!!!

Yeah, not direct, but apparently a bit of debris from nearby during The Blitz.
Some damage to the brickwork.

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clearly you are not a patriot, no poppy for you

Plot twist, he's German

bomb damage

!!!

Pretty common in London. The front of my Chambers in London is still pock-marked from a bomb dropped by Ze Germans in WWI (yep, First not Second - it was dropped from a Zeppelin) and you can see the new (all things are relative) bricks in the facade where they rebuilt the staircase that got taken out by another bomb in WWII.

I am getting my bathroom redone.

Here are some shots of the ongoing work!

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Look forward to seeing how this goes... want to do the same soon.

wut? your are ripping off that pink bathroom? good shout

I just ran through the decision in principle thing on HSBC's website, for the Hextals place.

I put in a 200k deposit and the full asking price 775, and it gave me a DiP of 620 - which has confused me. I was asking for 575 - so why the 620?

Other question, I'd be planning on offering a lot less than 775, presumably this DiP would be ok for a cheaper property?

Presumably the amount is some multiple of salary...
And yes, it'll be good for something cheaper too