How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

Depending what you’re looking for - We have a full set coming from Wandsworth Windows. They were the best price we found for ‘nice’ proper wood double glazed sash windows.

https://sashwindows.london/

Also got a quote from LSW but they were much more expensive but had a quicker lead time. londonsash.com

Lead times were pretty big with all the people we talked to 4 months +

Yeah. The owner was my old landlord in the late 90s and had fitted the flat I was in (plus their whole house above). When I moved out I got them to do the house I bought. Can recommend.

Appliance chat - Is it common knowledge that Bosch, Gaggenau, Neff & Siemens are all the same company? I thought I was going mad for a minute when I had a number of tabs open and kept seeing the same extractors.

Depends on the appliance I think. Extractors are just a stainless box with a fan so no one really bothers with R&D. They probably all come from the same factory.

AEG, Zanussi, Electrolux and… another one I can’t remember are the same company. Ovens, hobs etc are just tweaked or have different logos. There’s a few cross over companies like that. I think John Lewis hobs and ovens are AEG too.

I don’t think the extractors mean they’re the same company though, it’s just not worth doing your own so you badge an OEM one.

Actually Bosch own Gaggenau and Neff. Siemens are just lazy.

They have a website with the 12 brands listed. https://www.bsh-group.com/

Apparently 4 are global and the others local to somewhere.

No worries, it looks great. Well impressed 👍

Anyone got some good inspo for a downstairs WC? These are only two photos I have from before we moved in, but largely looks the same (different mirror and with non of the ‘stuff’ in there’

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Thermador, I thought that was still a family owned company.
General Electric sold their appliance business to Haier.
The Yale Appliance blog from Boston is good insider info on appliances. Talks about actual failure rates instead of anecdotes.

@Sparky I’d also recommend them - we had them replace 8 of our windows a couple of years ago.

Pink, obviously.

No Notion boards?

Basically we can't afford to have it form part of the scope of current reno and EC don't have time. But I'd quite like to get it done whilst we're doing the rest of the house.

one of those barbican sinks in a fancy colour and a terrazzo floor/skirting.
Aesop poo drops, no LLV motivation.

Just copy BVDS now tbh.

Not likely to do anything soon, but does anyone have any good references for a kitchen in the dining room of a victorian terrace and the normal side return extension as more of a living/dining space?
In our case, the living room and dining room have been opened up, but not necessarily relevant.

Got terrazzo flooring in the other downstairs bathroom.
I think we might keep it fairly similar although plans to use Dtile's have been shelved bc they're expensive and a total faff apparently.

so kitchen towards the front/middle of the house?

Yeah, in our case. Living room at front, dining room is a bit of a hallway and the side return and 1m extension can't really accommodate a proper place to sit. Just wondering if having the kitchen in the middle would be a good option. Would probably involve removing a chimney breast so may be unrealistic.

This is when we bought it, but we have taken out the wall between the front room and middle room.

I have always liked the "kitchen in the middle" layout of this place round the corner from us.
Used to belong to Stephanie Flanders off of the telly. Floor has aged very badly.

https://www.hansonarchitects.co.uk/nasmyth
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/details/england-98871653-91959471?s=a60190a8a47c4bd00a81b79b789e86634eeddb109800885cedf7a8c56861651f#/

Plans from Hammersmith website

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I wanted to do this but ended up moving instead; dining room at front of the house, kitchen in the middle (range cooker in the chimney breast) and then living room overlooking the south facing garden. I found a few precedents online at the time (classic trawl of the modern house, mostly) but all lost to the wind now.

A friend of mine in a swanky place out west (admittedly with a bit more room to play with) went one further with the kitchen at the front, dining in the middle and living at the back. His place is great, but I don't know whether that's the concept or just the effect of having spent so much money fitting it out with shiny things.

dining room is a bit of a hallway

This is a common problem that I have spent far too long thinking about. Looks like your place is the same as mine (i.e. 15 foot wide terrace). Basically there are two options to avoid the hallway / awkward middle room problem:

1. Kitchen in the middle: efficient on space, nice room at the back but you lose the opportunity to have a massive food prep space with island etc
   
2. Central "utility / WC core" with open plan kitchen-diner at the back and slightly enlarged front room. Lose the ability to close off the kitchen but can go more fancy with it. Get a slightly nicer living room at the front (rather than a snug) but most likely it will be dark.
   

This was another "kitchen in the middle" although spoilt with excessive use of pocket doors
https://www.lawsonrutter.com/property/lrs10019ea/w6/london/claxton-grove/house/4-bedrooms

I thought we had too many pocket doors!