How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

Buy a decent airbed?

Just ordered a load of Velfac (after obsessing over every detail for weeks), builder booked to rip our house a new arsehole start of next month.

Been procrastinating picking up barely-used appliances from posh houses all over town, when I should really be choosing and buying tiles for the bathroom.

Simultaneous side return and double dormer. No frikkin idea what I'm doing, apart from spending the most fuck-off amount of money in my life so far...

That's really smart idea. Nice one

The problem is anyone who knows knows that its a few mm of plastic between you and falling poop.

Remember I've a kid. I'm intimate with all poos now.

please, cast iron darling

The wacky thing is you’ve actually got poop inside you right now

this’ll get ye, we have clear glass in the bathroom window

As long as you don't hear a long plop every time it's used, it seems like a smart way of ensuring a good run without loosing space to boxing-in.

As others have said, unless you are expecting to use the bed a lot get a decent sofa and a big airbed. Gives you a far bigger (and cheaper) range of sofas and the big airbeds now are pretty bed-like when up.

Are these actually comfortable to sleep on and can you fit two adults? It looks tight to me.

We really wanted something like this for our kids bedroom. Not £2k worth of like obvs. But ultimately settled for the dull choice with lots of useful storage.

this’ll get ye, we have clear glass in the bathroom window

We have two! In one bathroom! Madness.

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Our bed is a futon and our sofa is a different futon (because we just moved and don't have the money for furniture). They are adequately comfortable

we don't have that one, but i do have one the same model bought from eBay for next to nothing. it is a little tight but a friend lived in our spare room on it for 3 months and was ok. It's not king size but it's also not hideous and not terrible to sleep on

at an old job, the soil pipe went through the design office and had an elbow in it, so you'd get a proper splat sound like someone dropping a bag of compost (which in a way they are). It was loud enough to interject in conversations.

There definitely appears to be a strong opinion.. think I would need to try one of these magic airbeds because I am not sold on that at all

can't imagine getting my parents to sleep on an airbed for a week

Is there somewhere that sells Moroccan ‘zellige’ tiles for sane prices, or am I stuck paying boutique money?

Wholesaler/importer?

google reverse image search, there will be a warehouse in Croydon or in the grim north saving you a bit on Kings road prices.

Previous investigation had Wayfair doing them for about a grand. Figured if we did that I'd rebuild the mechanism/bed into a false wall made from 2x4 but it never happened.

There are to be some nice examples in the don’t move improve archive and the like.

It’s big money and disruption tho.

All projects and people are unique yada yada but whilst taking up some space - chimney breasts (at ground floor) do give you a simple structure for interior design - ie. There is a symmetrical focal point so you can do stuff in the alcoves either side and have a picture or mirror central. Conventional sure - but I say this as someone who bought a house with a more or less square living/dining room one wall of which is glass and spent 6 yrs not being able to figure out/ afford an interior that’s either functional or looks vaguely presentable.

Can’t believe you wrote that much about clear soil pipe, can’t see it catching on personally but you go!

Good luck! Hope there’s some learnings from this thread.
I’m trying to find my fave loft but totally forgotten who did it. It had a decent amount of real wood, built in desk, and bathroom at the back of the main bedroom which wasn’t my first choice but what we ended up with.
So close to actually done now.

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Thanks! Been living vicariously through your project…

We’re not putting in a bathroom/bog in the loft, don’t want to lose space. Current situation is a kitchen with en-suite bog; bathroom is on the ground floor at the back of the house, separated from kitchen by a single door.

We’re moving the bathroom into one of the first floor bedrooms, and putting in a small bog on the ground floor. Hope the lack of amenities in the loft won’t bite us down the line!

Ha! Isn't that what the forum is for?
FWIW its really useful having a loo up here, especially for elderly parents who stay - is that something you may need to consider?
The eaves space is a bit of a waste of space, you could put just a loo and basin in there and forget about a shower?
A big first floor bathroom sounds like a ideal, we had to cut ours up as our place is so small we needed the space back, but a separate bath and shower was the dream.
Dedraft are a classic ref, this is one of theirs without a loft bathroom.
This is the ref I was trying to find, funnily enough ended up with a similar (if way more budget) arrangement.

Ew, plastic?!

It's got to be glass, surely.

(I'm impressed you bothered writing all that, it's very convincing).

https://plankhardware.com/ anyone? Yay/nay/other?