Architecture and interior design thread

nice with the mossy grass between the boards

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That looks like the exact reference I have in one of my Figma page.
I'm watching you in Figma.

cutting them into a manhole cover must have been fun?!

yes, the very same. please send me the rest of your mood board so I can rip off all your other ideas

Had no idea 76 Rensburg was pebbledash on the back, they've been hiding a dirty secret!

By the time you've finished your garden our vendor's solicitors might finally have actually sent the probate over to ours :/

Gravel Boards, thats a decent idea! They come in a few diffrent widths too I think

Ohhh yep, this is good

We got one of these last year. It works very well in our case and in combination with the rest of the garden gives complete privacy on the patio. Not sure how they compare in cost but we wanted a solution that can be out of the way in winter so you get more light in the house.

https://sunstorparasols.com/

I'm after some sort of windowsill planter thing to house potted seedlings, and starter plants.

Basically the best spot in the house for starting plants is in the guest bedroom which is being converted by my OH into no1's bedroom. Pots live there late Feb to mid April.

Right now there's a load of crap on there anyway, but I foresee a discussion over this space. So in an effort to provide a non-shit looking solution I'm after a planter type container 20cm x 135cm max that could house pots.

Any ideas?

We are trying to work out the best use of this space to the left side of our built in fridge bit.

Thought I'd pick the brains of you guys as you've probably got some great ideas that we haven't thought about.

We don't need extra storage but if we had some open storage here it would give us more flexibility in the current drawer space.

Otherwise we have thought about a mirror or putting up a picture.

If I did it again I would probably have bumped the door over but 25cm and extending the run on the left from 40cm to full standard size.

The size of the space is H:237cm/W:88cm/D:25cm

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bit late to the party but these are pretty functional

Fuck me they’re pricey! Just what we need so will probably end up getting one though.

Cheaper IKEA version
https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/skadis-pegboard-white-10321618/

They usually pop up in the Vitra sample sale - still not cheap but 40% off

Hopefully this has a dividing grid of resin-bound gravel to allow drainage.

Do you find these ugly?

@dbr put us on to them and we've used them for a variety of storage solutions now.

or at a cheaper end

Long time lurker on here and the "own your own home" thread. Currently about 2/3 through work on the wreck of a house we bought about 3.5 years ago in SE. Feel like it should be mandatory to do the whole thing in miniature before trying the real thing. Learnt so many lessons (most of them the hard way). Def bit off more than we could chew when we bought the place, massively underestimated how much it would cost to do up, got burnt working with an architect who seemingly had no clue on how much the works would cost when it went to tender so had to scrap approx. 6 months of work and go back to the drawing board and very quickly realised when we started strip out that there was absolutely nothing worth keeping so ended up taking it right back to four brick walls (which makes you wonder what you paid for) - but hey, it can only be up from here, right?

Anyway, this is really a long and convoluted way of getting to my actual question: does anyone have experience of using microcement / beton cire as a finish for patios, steps and garden walls? Seems pretty cost effective but have some residual concerns about how it might be affected from frost given it's only 2-3mm thick. If we hadn't already poured the slab up to the threshold I'd be nicking the brutalist gravel board idea from @chrisbmx116 ...

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Did you buy the Auer's direct? I was looking at their tool boxes the other day.

Christ that looks like a lot of work. Be really interested to know what you thought/hoped you'd spend, what the architect thought, what you've ended up spending. I don't think the place I got 6 months ago also in SE will have nothing worth keeping, but there's going to be a lot that needs doing.

What's the plan next?

Solent Plastics should be able to sort you out

We'd originally hoped we'd get away with £120k, but after getting the keys and starting to poke around underneath the many layers of wallpaper, laminate flooring, carpet and 60s chipboard paneling it rapidly became clear this wasn't going to cut it. Cue a couple of years of saving and scrabbling and we went out to an architect with max. budget of £170k (this is for a three-storey mid-terrace). They did some great looking plans (in hindsight, too great looking), went through planning and got it all signed off but when it went out to tender everything was coming back around double (even with cost engineering). No way we could justify (let alone afford) that, so ripped up the plans, ditched the architects and stripped out all the complex, structural work and trick glazing and focused on getting the bare bones and detailing right.

Really happy with how it's turning out now, just wish we hadn't wasted so much time/money with the architects as they were impossibly ambitious with what they thought we'd be able to achieve with the budget, and some of their early decisions/recommendations that we did carry over have ended up costing us as they required non-standard sizes (sometimes by only a few centimetres) which has meant we've had to either amend details late on in the process or otherwise specify bespoke where we might have got away with off-the-shelf had we been aware of it earlier (I'm looking at you, pivot door).

Long story short, choose architects who have a track record in projects the same size as your own and stress test the plans with a contractor as early as possible to avoid getting burnt. If you're going to go ahead without an architect (as we are now) you'll need to prepare to spend what seems like every waking hour stressing over every individual detail in order to make sure it all comes together in the way it looks in your head (TBC on whether we've managed that).

@dbr did our kitchen quite some time ago, finally got some photos without stuff everywhere

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Do you find these ugly?

Sorry missed this. Cheers.

No. But idk if my OH will like them.

The alix ones might be a better shout as there are different colours. Plus they fold so can be stored in the shed. Just need to work out the best ones as the current scheme is pretty neutral with colour coming from accessories I think. Curtains are sort of that 90s denim colour.

stunnin' great work @dbr

sliding doors? And this is new place or old place?

Nice work @dbr