How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

I love an island as much as the next guy but there is a point where they are detrimental to the flow and light of the house. A narrower peninsula would be more in keeping with the period and prob save a fair wack.
Jelly if long garden, I have the smallest house and garden in East London.

That extension looks really tastefully done. Just saw your dry stone wall thread as well haha, fairplay looks a cracking job

I can see there's repointing going on on the old side, are you using lime mortar?

Not being in London anymore does have advantages when it comes to space. the garden is a tricky space though as its long and thin. The island itself isn't costing crazy money, but it does dictate size of the extension. I think i could do with mocking up some alternatives

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Looks great, but I’d defo worry about light at the back.
Here’s a nice reference of a thin peninsula https://www.uncommonprojects.co.uk/#/new-gallery/

love that alot, hope we can do similar

Theres some really lovely stuff there . Very different look wise from the style were looking at

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Not really seeing the answer here so I'll ask it explicitly. How do I bathroom?

The one in the loft extension has a toilet, shower and sink. I want roughly the same out of a new bathroom up there but with potentially a slightly larger shower. The current shower is disconnected as it leaked like a drive and fucked the ceiling below. There was/is a shower pump in the airing cupboard where the hot water tank is on the floor below. I would obviously want/need that to be reconnected/replaced to even get hot water upstairs, and maybe even provide greater pressure to the bath on the same floor as the tank.

Who do I speak to for the whole thing? General builder? Plumber? Bathroom specialist? I have no idea about styling or decoration so hoping for help with that too.

You probably want a plumber/heating engineer for the boiler part and then a bathroom fitter for the other part.
What sort of shape/size is the room? @chrisbmx116 Will knock you something up in Figma on his lunch break tomorrow

Thats ace. Decent thermally broken aluminium for the windows is worth looking at. Velfac, kloeber, smart - to name a few

I’d look at flush fit aluminium casement. You’ll get much nicer profiles and thinner sight lines than you would with upvc. You’ll also have a much greater range of colours on offer - I’m not sure rich black upvc exists. It’s always black/brown and often with a shitty grain texture.

The only ral 9005 uPVC I've found so far does indeed have a shitty wood grain to it.... Had a quote from a Reynaers supplier for Alu. 21k all in , to replace all windows as per the pics. Plus 3 floor to ceiling panels for the side of the house, 4.5m x 2.4m sliding doors for the full width and height of the ground floor and sliding doors to the first floor balcony. Ideally I'd like this figure to be smaller

apparently a style blogger my partner follows has been painting (!) her uPVC surrounds recently

she usually puts out a blogpost with her method when she does these things. I'm waiting to see the finish - quite fancy trying it if the finish is decent

As @Tenderloin said, you'll prob be best off with a specialist boiler/heating person and a bathroom fitter.

Reg water pressure, a couple of options as you don't have a combo, I hear good things about Salamander pumps.

Reg style, thats all subjective and only you can answer that. My usual thought process is... (Based on period of house) Sympathetic or not, and then after that if the later what contemporary style.

Ideally I'd like this figure to be smaller

I know those feels, bro.

As others have said a specialist will yield better results. I had my old bathroom done by a general builder. It wasn't badly done, but undoubtedly a specialist would have done a better job. They will likely fit things better, and do better jobs of things like tiling. Most will have a plumber they work with too.

For my current house I'm having to get a high pressure unvented cylinder to ensure that the top floor bathroom gets sufficient pressure. This will also help with pressure if you have a couple of taps on at once.

So many costs , it's hard to correctly estimate before the quotes roll in and the remedial works start pulling up...

Yes Velfac, Timber internal, Alu external is the dream

Used to live in a house just like that in Ham...
Loved living there!

I stuck it in the homeowning chat but might be more useful here - has anyone done a full insulation retrofit on a solid wall house? Anyone gone for EnerPHit? Currently have standard loft insulation, thinking about mostly external wall insulation and render (solid brick 1920s walls), small area of internal wall insulation, underfloor insulation and moving the thermal line out to the roof. Potentially replace windows (currently uPVC double-glazed so not bad but a bit old).

Cheers. Just off a call with a client/friend who is having some work done at the minute and he really rates his builder. This is the second time he's used him, and he did a bathroom for my mate's mate and that went well. Will have a chat with that guy and go from there.

Not worried about preserving features as it is a shit bathroom currently in a not very inspiring loft conversion.

Sounds like something quite neutral would suit.
I'd recommend Lusso Stone for taps and sinks (brushed steel maybe?).

We have a black towel rad from @Bainbridge that may actually end up determining what the rest of the bathroom looks like. Such is my lack of inspiration. There is actually no rad in there currently, but the other two rooms have them so hopefully trivial to extend that loop into the bathroom.

Thanks for the suggestions, keep them coming! When I get time, I will measure the room and do a crude mock up of what is there currently.

Lusso Stone also do black! Their shower enclosures are over priced though.

A pal of mine redid his house to the tune of 6 figures and he didn't match his taps and it reallllly stresses me.

I'm really liking bold colours in bathrooms, seen a few nice bold green tiled bathrooms. Floor wise rubber is a great choice as its light, simple and durable https://www.colourflooring.co.uk

Or cork of course.

ms_com likes bold colours, and is coming round to the idea of cork. I need to rip out the old shower cubicle to see what damage has been done to the floor/joist from the old leak. Outside of the shower, under the lino looks like perfectly serviceable floorboards. But not pretty ones, so I would imagine some kind of low maintenance floor covering.

This is my reference sheet for my current build... https://www.pinterest.co.uk/eightarmedpet/bathroom-v2/
I'm going pink and brass and creating a utility room from a slice of the bathroom which is going to be a bright orange corridor in.