Owning your own home

interested on a price for that, if you don't mind sharing.

@tommmmmmm Logic says yours is 45 then. are we going to get some bedwetting about it not being to regs? Can be the first to say; that's not to regs, tear it down you terrible human?

Offer Accepted.

This is now the hard bit right?

That is correct. Prepare for rage-inducing nonsense.

It's only the hard bit if you're not getting building work done as well.

Had the joyful task of reading through the life insurer's definitions of critical illnesses yesterday. Basically a list of things you are bound to eventually get.
Thats another 70 quid a month...

stair angle

the problem with deviating from building regs is when building control come to sign-off, or if non-notified, when a pre-sale survey is carried out by a good surveyor. at best a negotiated reduction in sale price, at worst a building control order to rectify, or if someone takes a fall and sues you, it happens..

Current state of our kitchen...

Current view of the back of the house...

...bit of a way to go yet. Steels should be going in today.

Looks a bit drafty.

You might need a bit more counter top space then that... etc etc

So much natural light, though

Direct access to vegetable patch and herb garden.

True.

Plenty of natural weather ingress too.

Blurring the lines between indoors and outdoors etc.

I am well jel of your house Ru.

Is it going to be a glass roof?

@tommmmmmm - Nah. Back bit of the extension, where the french doors are, gets an upper floor (continuing existing roofline) and will be broken through into the house, with those french doors being re-used perpendicular to where they are now, opening onto a small roof terrace. Rest of the extension has a large rooflight in the middle with (hopefully) a green roof around it.

So from the new upper bit (a split level bedroom) you'll be looking out over terrace and greenery (along the backof the house to the right in the picture).

...if that makes sense. Will update when they've built a bit more.

Never mind all that...

How much is the kitchen costing?

Anything more than a grand and you're a mug.

i spent a grand just on the ivory drawer pulls..

What borough is this in @villa-ru...?

We pressed for months in Lewisham to get a roof terrace and were basically told to GTFO on multiple occasions

I spent nearly 10k on a 1.5x1.5m ensuit. I may be a mug tho

@Soul - Ha! dunno at this stage, but certainly in the 'mug' area. We're re-purposing the existing original 50's cabinets (that didn't get accidentally stripped out in the demolition), doors, hinges etc. New formica faced birch ply worksurface and new cabinets. Keeping exposed brick (currently external) wall.

@WjPrince - we're in Croydon (borders). Those french doors went out onto a roof terrace anyway, so we have just moved it across a bit - and we're lucky that that aspect doesn't look out onto any neighbours. We did another extension in Balham and were told to GTFO where it would have overllooked the neighbours gardens.

Woah! This is impressive. So those steels sticking out have been inserted, they're not original right?

Love the 'French doors to nowhere'.

I have also got used to the site of MANY ACROWS. I need to post some pictures up.

I'm loving the Roman columns vibe