The House project has started!

The House project has started!

Yep, after about 3 years of planning the house building project has started. When we bought the house we knew it had potential for us. 

We lived in it for a year before starting our plans - why? Because we wanted to understand it - to experience a full year with the changing seasons.

The Project 

We worked with an architect to create the initial picture of what we wanted (actually we worked with two - the first one didn't understand our vision!) The vision was to create a space where we could live as a family, and could that could grow with us (We have two young children who will soon become teenagers). Tim, the second architect from Marshall Carley Ltd, got what we wanted and helped us refine our thoughts to create an image of our vision.

The existing house is a 1960s bungalow made from brick with concrete roof tiles. It is in need of updating and modernising.

As it is a bungalow we have a great opportunity to create space both upstairs for bedrooms and downstairs for living.

The Plans

We think we have created a house that gives us what we want. We decided not to demolish and rebuild due to our budget constraints (it is a large house already and we estimated that to give us an equivalent size was beyond our budget).

We plan to put 3 dormer style windows into the rear of the house with a master bedroom built into the increased gable height over the sitting room. 

The front of the house will be less imposing while allowing light into the whole of the house. 

It's now 1st July 2014 and we are about to start the build. We have moved into a caravan in the back garden and the house has been cleared to storage. The scaffolders are in the process of erecting a complete canopy over the main house structure - and boy does it look big!

Hopefully the builders will start next week!