Owning your own home

Just needs a dartboard and it's finished.

Very nice. What are you doing to box in the bath?

Looks great. Loving the border trim on the top of the green tiles

If you want a competing quote for sash windows, @Señor_Bear and I have both got windows from these guys
https://www.checkatrade.com/trades/JoinersWindowsReplacementServ

Dov had his installed a while ago and mine are going in the week of the 11th. Very good quality and a very reasonable quote.

I haven’t even thought about it yet beyond I’ll make something out of wood

A lot depends on your budget and how much you want to change things. Removing the walls between kitchen and dining room will immediately open that space up more. You could have a long run of units/worktop along the north wall (might be too long if anything)
Alternatively open the whole space up and have a big peninsular in the middle for prep/eating at with storage underneath.

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Ceiling tiled would help this a lot.

thanks, thinking longer term so budget could be whatever we decide, its usable for now (if we get the house)

mainly thinking that long term wanted to do something with it, the windows are pretty big which kinda puts me off extending the north wall units too far

Thanks! Will do, may have to fight my way back into London at this rate but will make it.

What about switching the dining area and the kitchen around? Dining area could become quite nice and cozy and kitchen could be a decent size?

yeah, definitely more expensive with having to move pipes etc, but would probably give us closer to our desired end result..

Wooden or UPVC?

Makes sense. Can you post some pics of the rooms so we can see the windows etc?

Very nice, tiler did a cracking job

Wooden.

However if anyone wants some free UVPC windows our old ones are going spare. They aren't very pretty but work perfectly well. Standard 3 bed Victorian terraced house.

looks fancy.. without furniture alot less so, the floor is fucked under the table, walls need repainting and the kitchen is all ikea so functional but don’t feel all that solid

it’s on the first floor

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Where is the fridge and freezer?

fridge under counter, fridge freezer combo in the utility room, downstairs..

Does anyone know a decent lime plasterer in east London?
I am tackling a damp area, pipes outside were broken and have been fixed but possibly in the spring I need to remove gypsum plaster and put some lime.
I had a look online and everything linked to lime was bling bling

Materials are about 50% more but the labour should be like-for-like

What was the ballpark price for a bay windows and a single window? Costing up new projects in my head before we have even exchanged contracts.

It's great.
Can you get an echo off the tiles when you talk?

fridge freezer [...] downstairs

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this is one thing we definitely want to fix if we were to get it and do some work trust me...

What is the scale/cost of your job?