the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

Itismehonest wrote: »

By the time you've taken into account all our ideas, rozee, you may have such an enormous place that you'll be having to buy next door, too! :rotfl:

Actually, its not a joke. Our 'HUGE' kitchen turns out to be not so huge when ypu start fitting things in. In fact its disappointting. Our utility room now, looks tiny on the plans, because its becoming a stroage cupboard and down stairs loo and a back door.....corridors take up a lot of room :mad:

Itismehonest

Believe me I know how houses can "grow". Like Topsy.
How many sq. m. do you have to "play" with, lir?

Just read that & I don't think it was clear what I meant.... try again
Are you restricted within the footprint of an existing building or is there scope to manoeuvre &, if so, by how much?

lostinrates

Itismehonest wrote: »

Believe me I know how houses can "grow". Like Topsy.
How many sq. m. do you have to "play" with, lir?

Just read that & I don't think it was clear what I meant.... try again
Are you restricted within the footprint of an existing building or is there scope to manoeuvre &, if so, by how much?

Omg, just lost an epic reply to this. I will tell all, but can't face that typing again right now

Davesnave

Well, it looks as if all the good ideas for your build have already been mentioned rozee, and I'd agree with most of them too, particularly the need for a buffer area between 'mucky' outside and 'clean' indoors. I like a sort of indoors/outdoors crossover space too, though our conservatory currently doubles as the 'mucky room' in winter.

I've posted this elsewhere, but with the prospect of a half-decent day weatherwise, today, we headed off into one of the valleys on Dartmoor, where we walked for 3.5 hours without seeing another human being. The sun shone and it wasn't even breezy within the combes.


We overdid it a bit though. Both struggling a bit by the time we reached the car again.

Then, we completely negated all the good work done by buying two large portions of fish & chips! :rotfl:

choille

Beautiful photo Dave - looks smashing. What a great bridge.

LIR - Hateful losing posts - scmeam if you wish.

Spent a while trying to turn a large borrowed trailer by hand earlier on without falling over - old cat to go to vets tomorrow as wheezy again & baytril not touching it. Temps plummeting again. Could do with just sitting like now.

I want a M C Esher type floor that I've seen somewhere. I'd have to do it myself with lino - real lino & cut the shapes out, but it so surreal is the pattern best kept for hallways & bathrooms at most - anywhere permanent would probably bring on..........errrrrrrrr...............vertigo.....................

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Beautiful photo Dave - looks smashing. What a great bridge.

I want a M C Esher type floor that I've seen somewhere. .....

Yes, a great bridge that no longer serves its original purpose. There was quite a bit of mining and industrial stuff in that area in days of yore.

Fingers crossed for your moggy.

Whatever you do, don't make a flight of Escher stairs! :rotfl:

lostinrates

Ok, try again.

House...extra space....well, we have one wall of a coach house than can be rebuilt and a two story building that might make a grandad annexe. But the house, we have got planning for an extension, or rather, restoration, which will be one largish ish drawing room, and two beds/bath above, then another bed/bathin the roof space. Then another bed and bath in the existing roof space. Then the simplest way to describe the rest is a list of what it is now and what it will be ...but rummer might shoot me as i have her horse and dog as it is....


Siting room stays sitting room,
Dining room becomes music room/library
Kitchen becomes study library
Current day rooma and current study become one dining room,
current utility becomes Pantry/freezer store and downstairs loo,
Current store room becomes kitchen, small store room becomes utility.

We are also loosing a bedroom to become a bathroom, and a cot room beomes another bathroom, and the current bath and back landing will be part of a master bedroom/bathroom/dressing room. Dressing rooms seem slightly ott when you live in tracksuiits and coats though.....

choille

I'm not going for the esher stairs coz they wouldn't go anywhere.

I'm having a dressing room to store all me wellies in - big walk in cupboard /hanging space thang.

Banker (fat cat) has a long standing wheeze thing but am in the middle of changing vets after giving present one the benefit of the doubt too many times & he's started getting incredibly greedy.

Itismehonest

Sounds absolutely great, lir, but has totally lost me :rotfl:

What I meant was if the corridors are a problem - taking away space from the rooms downstairs - is there anyway you can eke extra space to accomodate them?
Or, come to that, as someone who lives in a house with no corridors, are they all necessary.

Itismehonest

choille wrote: »

I'm not going for the esher stairs coz they wouldn't go anywhere.

:rotfl: :j I got that one :j:rotfl: