How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

That’s all the wall cabinets there’ll be. I actually hate wall units, but needed to box in the extractor.

Will prob upgrade to extracting down draft hob at some point and delete that entire wall cabinet bit.

Whack a shelf across it imo

Grand thanks. Have you used these ones?

Last one I did was actually from these guys -
https://greenrooftops.co.uk/

Has taken really well, has a nicer variety than the Grufekit.

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Is that your actual roof? That's absolutely fantastic! I'm going to have to rip mine up & start again.

I went with https://www.sky-garden.co.uk/

Looks great! Less kg/m² too which is good.

Are there rules of thumb / fashion trends in patio slabs? Clueless here - red brick extension, anthracite bifolds, no idea what'll suit.

Yes I concur with the previous comment looks good to me

Is that your actual roof?

I wish, it's a clients house. The bees were loving it today.

There's gonna be a shelf to the left of the steel post.

@Rodolfo It would look better with the wall unit to be aligned how you've marked, but that would make it quite high. It's currently 800mm from the worktop; feels like 900mm might be too high to be practical, and decrease the efficacy of the extractor...

I was thinking of doing this with our pending flat roof extension. Now I might demand it and make sure the roof is specced to suit it because that looks great.

I'm sure ours would end up full of sycamores and geraniums trying to grow though.

Two friends of ours have sedum roofs, and both have had to fit metal mesh over theirs to stop the aroma of cat/fox turds wafting in through the back bedroom window.

I'd also love to put a strip of sedum on our roof tho, so keen to hear suggestions for avoiding a turdful time that don't involve a chastity cage...

Lovely job!

Sort-of unintended consequences that are cracking you up at the moment...

We're about to get one on a bike store in our front garden. I hope that doesn't mean visitors to our house are always greeting by the scene of our cat laying a cable.

Those ceramics look beautiful! What's the rationale behind protruding fixed spots vs traditional flush spotlights? I've seen them used quite a lot on architect projects etc that I've looked at

I’ve just never really liked recessed spotlights; probably trauma from living in a cascade of rented house shares with runway strips of eleventy-three spots in the kitchen.

Much better pink tile.

Now also looking at 60x60 marble effect tiles instead of hexagons. Will cost less, be less busy and hide dirt better.

I like top right best I think.

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This is said tile but bigger.

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We had marble effect checkerboard tiles in our previous bathroom and they annoyed me. I didn't like that you could see repeated patterns and I didn't like that they were pretending to be something they weren't. But I also wouldn't have LVT pretending to be wood or pretend slate by choice.

Don’t disagree but it’s a very small bathroom.

4sqm floor (half of which is under a freestanding bath) and 9sqm of wall with the white tiles. I think it’ll be pretty easy to avoid repetitive patterns.

Our entire downstairs is LVT. 🤷🏼‍♂️

On the topic of bathroom flooring, the downstairs loo in my house is, for boring historical reasons, the only part of the ground floor which is carpeted, which is obviously a stupid choice of floor covering for a downstairs loo. The lavatory pan and pedestal sink are attached directly to the floor and the carpet is cut around them. Lifting them further up, in order to lay tiles underneath them for example, would be a massive pain.

So what floor covering would be best, which can be fitted around the existing fittings rather than underneath them? No cork. Reminds me too much of the 70s.

I think a light grey tile would look good with those tiles

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for boring historical reasons, the only part of the ground floor which is carpeted

Ah yes, back when the only way to wipe ones backside was to drag oneself on a plush shagpile.

Jeez the standard of interiors in this thread is way too high for me to post this here - but here is my cost of living crisis boiler cupboard re-do anyways. If you would have told 2007 me that in 2024 I would not be able to afford birch ply panelled interiors and would be forced to stoop to osb….. 🤣 Ah well - just some fucking coat hooks (said my OH) …

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