The Plans

A couple of weeks ago we received the draft plans for our 'new' house. We were thinking, are we doing the right thing, is this the right layout? What else should we consider? All these doubts went through our minds, should we do what the neighbours are doing and add a study downstairs? After a visit to the neighbours, they were raving about our layout and they were going to change it to be the same as ours. Strange eh?

Well the plans have now been submitted to the council for approval. We're pretty happy with the changes we are going to make to the house and the extra room we're adding. Let's hope the council approves and we are good to go in 6-8 weeks. Anyway we thought you might like to see the plans. We like 'em, now...

We're number 37 by the way... From the back of the new bathroom is the extension. We are going 6m back which apparently is quite long for 1890's terraced houses. The whole back extension will be our kitchen / diner with bi-fold doors to the back patio.

The look from the back with the skylight...

View from the side, we are looking to add an en-suite bathroom to the top floor. Let's see how the first planning application goes eh?

We have some time to wait for the planning permission to come through so in the mean time we are re-plastering all of the inside. As it so desperately needs!

The waiting game

The reason for the blog silence was that we were playing the waiting game. Waiting for the neighbours to sign on to the idea of doing a joint planning application. Without them, we couldn't extend and add the much needed space to the house.

After a few tense meetings, they came around to the idea, embraced it and are now almost more gung ho than us! Almost...

The next step was meeting with the Architect, talking through our ideas, what might work and what dreams needed to be shattered.

So we waited some more, waited for the architect to chat about the plans, waited for them to come back and take measurements and now we are waiting for the drawings. When you know you have to wait 8 weeks for the planning permission to come through, it's a little frustrating waiting for everything else.

So in the meantime, what we couldn't wait for was to get started with the destruction!

Remember this?

Well this is now what it looks like...

We also decided to see what we could get for some of the items in the house, so the cooker? SOLD! The shed? SOLD!

Selling the shed also gave us the opportunity to see the original rotting shed sitting behind the metal one as well as sizing up the garden. It's not a bad size actually! See for yourself...

Before:

And after...

So while we wait for the plans... more destruction to follow... how fun!