How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

Not quite a loft room, but we’re in a modern 3 storey townhouse, and it would be uncomfortably hot it not for having windows on both sides to allow airflow.

Our loft got hot but not much more than the rest of the house. We had three windows at the front and three at the back so could get decent airflow.

Didn't go for a Juliette as we wanted the option of putting things under the window.

I need a loft now.

Just ordered these for all the doors in my house, which are being replaced due to fire regs anyway. I have always hated the doors since moving in - and the matching naff brass light switches which I’ve gotten rid of already.

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We’re kicking off our renovation in the new year as previously mentioned.
We’re also a few weeks out from having our first child.
How badly are they going to fuck up the Dinesen Douglas fir flooring/staircase I’ve been eyeing up? should I just go for slightly more practical stuff?

Or just YOLO?

Someone like @EstelleGetty or @Sheppz might have an actual informed/professional opinion

So ideally you would do the reno before or after baby not during...

Personal thoughts:

Seeing the mess our child has made of this awful awful house in the four months we’ve been here has definitely put me off doing anything too nice to it for the foreseeable, as much as I physically feel the need to do so as I walk around the place. Doubly so due to our impending second hit. Well all those reasons and the crippling poverty the place and nursery fees have put us in.

But follow-on question is ‘if not now, when?’. When is it ‘safe’ to do it? The longer you wait the less value you get from it, and I can’t imagine 2 kids under ten are any more gentle than the one 18 month old we’ve got, and I’m not sure I can tolerate the compromises this place has for a decade.

TL; DR: goodbye HM and Dinesen, hello IKEA and laminate and fml.

When is it ‘safe’ to do it?

18 y.o. - so you have plenty of time to start saving

I had a kid in my pristine white walled, cork floored, TMH-shagging house for c.3 hours recently - and my anxiety spiked so much I'm now on klonopin

Wish I’d thought all of this through before child. Think I’d rather have the pristine white cube of a house at the moment.

How are they going to look once you drill them for stair gates?

Fml

Think YOLO is the answer

The front lounge is going to be an adult only space and then kitchen living spaces for kid - so maybe that will help a bit. Fuck knows. Already getting rid of the WC to make it a buggy/child stuff store room.

Stair gate?! Bloody hell - never seen one of those on TMH

The front lounge is going to be an adult only space

Lol. We have tried this. They can open doors and fuck with hifi components and relocate tv controls before they learn to respect your ‘no’s’.

(Do they ever learn to respect them?!)

The front lounge is going to be an adult only space

Damn right

You’re cheating because one child maybe almost respects you and the other can’t move under their own steam.

Yeah I mean everyone tells me this but I’m carrying on blithely ahead with the idea 🥴

Can relate. Recently the other half's friend visited, with their young child, who discovered the fun bleep bloop noises our new washing machine makes. It's a Samsung, and it's painfully close to actually being half washing machine, half toddler toy. Kid was having a whale of a time to be fair. Less fun for me, trying to work in the same room :/

Re: kids. There are two kinds of F&B paint. ‘Estate’ and ‘Modern’. Estate must be for the rarely used wings of your mansion and doesn’t deal well with paw prints….

Once the machine’s happily spinning they can sit and watch it for a while though ;)

Lol adult only space. What’s that?

Flooring has gone in, so the first test of it is little boy’s tractor and bike.

14m of hallway, and open plan living room/kitchen for him and his sister to zoom around in.

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It still makes amusing bleep noises when you turn it off mid-cycle :)

We made sure two buy one with a child lock on it. Makes plenty of beeping noises with the lock engaged, but won't be actually do anything