How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

Lol.

A. Yeah
B. No - Oak shelf
C. No
D. No
E. Yes, to the ceiling, because your shower head is close to it.
F. Yep, same as E
G. Not sure which bit this is, outside of bath? If so, no.
H. No, it's not going to get wet.

This is based on only tiling where it's needed and I think personally that too many tiles look like a public toilet :)

Hah.

Probs could have gone green on bath panel in retrospect but the tile choice nearly ended in divorce and I was concerned about overload. Other things i wish i'd done or had budget for -geberit / wall hung WC - heated mirror - better extraction - a heated towel rad + underfloor heat - a wall light fitting over the mirror.

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I'd say tile it all (except for B) or else you always end up with one bit of tiling that just randomly stops.

Or just tile E and F to the ceiling and the rest to the height of the shelf in A.

Top of the window isn't going to work unless your shower head is pretty low.

lelz

I only saw the first colour pic and thought 'why don't they go all the way across the back?' then I saw the second pic and thought 'fugly'.

I had a similar extension all the way across the back on a similar red brick house but we had a pitched roof which IMO looks nicer.

So my preference would be all the way across but try to make it look more attractive.

Will try to dig out some pics

Yeah, think that's where I'm going, I'm a bit worried it will all look a bit disconnected if I only tile the bits that need it, ie the shelf/boxxed out area will stand out more..

Dead nice and defo quite similar... think I'll do roughly the same.. A, E and F basically, to the ceiling.

here are a few pics that i can't load in order but basically going from

• house with side extension on left of pic built before we moved in which contained a kitchen at the rear and a garage at the front. first pic has ratty and rotten single pane glass and wood conservatory
  
• house with conservatory removed
  
• rear extension in place
  
• extended patio in place
  
  

here are a few pics that I can't load in chronological order but basically going from

• house with side extension on left of pic. Ground floor built before we moved in which contained a kitchen at the rear and a garage at the front and first floor extension built by us circa 2009.
  
• ratty and rotten single pane glass and wood conservatory on rear
  
• house with conservatory removed
  
• rear extension in place
  
• extended patio in place
  
  

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and the inside shortly after completion. The non-kitchen end now has large dining table and chairs and large TV on the wall

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That looks like a great space.

haha - i'm just looking away in disgust from the state my kids leave the loo on a daily basis....

Yup unfortunately the house is in a conservation area and adding mass to the first floor is going to be tricky and that makes a pitched roof tricky, does the rear of your pitch fall back towards the house or joined to the wall at its apex?

thanks, it is and it has transformed the house.

we spend most of our time in here now. It also makes it easy to access both the living room and what we refer to as the computer room or I suppose study is a better description through the two arches visible on the left in the pic with my eldest boy in the armchair

it's a false pitched roof and has a flat roof behind it (well, a gentle slope for drainage and an exit point for water rather than completely flat).

The glass pyramid thing sits on the flat roof behind the pitch. Hold on, let me see if i can find another pic

EDIT: a selection of pics to show the pyramid on the flat roof behind the pitched tiles

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Have you got some sort of internal gutter/lead valley?

Liking this. Getting strong Stan Smith tennis whites vibes!

Cheers

yes, in the first pic you can just see the shallow gutter running the width of the roof to the left of the plyboard and hidden behind there is a lead valley through the wood and venting onto the external tiles

I posted these before but thought I’d get thoughts on these two 1st floor layouts. One means moving a wall and losing separate entrance into the master bedroom the other involves a more complex structural solution removing the bib from in the en-suite. I think the full width en-suite is the better solution but worried a little about turning a 4 bed into 3 bed...

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I’m designing a bathroom at the moment and I think your soil pipe in the second pic would be awkward to box in, given the size of the room.

Wow - that’s going to be a great dressing room.

That’s a really clever solution to get a skylight in under the upstairs sills.

Lovely big space.

Love the scale of the rooms in the first, but can’t help feel the space in the second would be more practical as without the integrated day bed the dressing room could convert back to a bed room fairly easily. I wouldn’t want to turn a 4 bed to a 3 bed as you never know what the future holds, be that children, elderly parents who need care or just a sudden desire to move out of London for good and you’ve knocked 40k off the value.