Owning your own home

by north of the river, I assume you mean... north of the M25...

I would LOVE something like this instead: https://goo.gl/maps/6ms1k5hfymQYDu4o8

Dream big!

The Guardian wrote an article about this thread

https://www.theguardian.com/

I've never been to the wastelands and I have no plan to start now.

All good food for thought - seems someone else has got in their first and is buying the house though....

All my (very quickly assembled) dreams ruined

Immediately made me think of this kind of development.

https://goo.gl/maps/5j6fjq9Npd3JXcm87

Genuinely disappointed. I actually thought it would feature.

I remember listening to a talk by someone who did a similar study in New York among spouses of people earning $1m p/a. Admittedly NYC is expensive and to have a UK middle class lifestyle you'd probably need a household income of >£250k. But because of a number of factors - having a mortgage or renting, knowing of far wealthier people, not being able to spend unrestrictedly - they didn't see themselves as "rich"

Your refurb is going to really stress me.

I reckon we'll constantly have to downgrade things to keep it on budget and I like nice things :(

But on the plus side I'm actually looking forward to doing more myself. Worked out a plan/tools I'll need last night to make my own nice ply doors for Ikea kitchen cabinets which would be a lot cheaper than Plykea etc. but open up a wider selection of more interesting veneered ply.

If the stress hasn't got to me by September I suspect having to listen to the soundtrack from Dirty Dancing 40 times over two months from a house I bought cos it was quiet just might :/

Good thinking, may steal :)

i hate bay windows, create a weird room. shape that youc ant put anything in

They are perfect for Christmas trees. We've got an EKENÄSET in ours.

They are perfect for having a nosey up and down your street when you hear odd noises.

FTFY

also planning on doing this if we complete, that theyve put door on every section of, even the ones with drawers, so you have to open the door fully to open the drawers?? nonsense, definitely going to make some myself

I do this. Except when it has a Christmas tree in it.

I asked this a while back but it maybe got lost in sofa chat.

Who do I talk to about replacing some stairs? Is that a joiner thing or could a fairly competent builder do it? We're looking at something a little more than off the shelf like this: https://pin.it/1Gjso5L

Our current stairs are a fucking nightmare, too steep, the first step is a half step and as our house is a dark little hobbit hole I want to try and allow a bit more light in (plan to put a tiny skylight above stairs at some point).

I have no idea where to start with this.

How about -
Room on left - Gym + corner shower (then can become Bedroom later.)
2nd from left - Office (becomes Living Room)
Middle right - L-shaped kitchen + toilet (pocket door off office)
Right - Craft Room (becomes bed two/dining etc)
I would add pocket doors between each room, so you can open it up for bigger party space / not have to go outside between each when raining - and not have to reconfigure to adapt to a full living space.

The ambitious proposal provoked an interesting discussion with the local planning authority and resulted in a positive outcome

lol. I assume this means ‘we fought them for years and when we lost in the courts we ultimately gained approval by releasing the planning officer’s dog from captivity’

Finally nailed the very last of the unpacking and now have shit loads of moving boxes available for free in E11- near the Bushwood end of Leytonstone.

Tend to lurk a fair bit on this thread and seem to recall a couple of others out this way with plans to move soon

cork floor in action. (don’t zoom in on my books u book-zooming xunts)

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I never knew cork had such a cult following until the last few pages of this thread

don’t zoom in on my books u book-zooming xunts

More interested in the Bruichladdich...

Those ikea chairs are great

Video update from Kylies house, water pressure near her and Chris is rubbish. 35 million dollar mansion and no even a rainfall shower head. What. Is. Life.

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That looks fantastic.

that was a christmas gift - I usually go in for more heavily peated islays (there's an ardbeg 10 just out of the picture) but enjoying the bruichladdich so far

@Bainbridge yup - big fan. they're so solid and comfy for the price

@chrisbmx116 thanks - just trying to do my bit to counter bq's anti-cork propaganda

I quite like that pale cork but there’s something very nature-reserve-activity-centre about it.