the daydream fund challenge thread

rozeepozee

This is the current front elevation of the unlovely Kookaburra

Davesnave

RAS wrote: »

Unfortunately the postie arrives late morning and I am supposed to go to a meeting tonight, so it will be late when i find out.
Tell me tomorrow if they've not shown and I will get on the case straight away.
Hedge woundwort any interest? Having to pull a lot up at the moment because it has migrated under the fruit bushes. Rhizomes and copes with dry soil. Makes use of any wet later in thwe year.

We have that in one of the field hedges, but not in the garden under the elms, so far as I know. We also have this, which I rather like:

http://wildflowerfinder.org.uk/Flowers/N/Navelwort/Navelwort.htm

Davesnave

rozeepozee wrote: »

This is the current front elevation of the unlovely Kookaburra

It's still marginally more lovely than our place!

Must admit I've gone off bungalows a bit, but often that's the only option for affordable landed property which isn't old. We have 5 modern (under 50 years!) landed properties in our village and they are all bungalows. Thankfully, ours isn't like most others of its ilk, not being a Woolaway. Mind you, we'd not have considered it if it had been made from concrete panels.

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

It's still marginally more lovely than our place!

Must admit I've gone off bungalows a bit, but often that's the only option for affordable landed property which isn't old. We have 5 modern (under 50 years!) landed properties in our village and they are all bungalows. Thankfully, ours isn't like most others of its ilk, not being a Woolaway. Mind you, we'd not have considered it if it had been made from concrete panels.

Planners, in our experience of searching and asking, restrict to bungalows amazingly often.

We saw one place i loved the location of incredibly, incredibly, with a hngalow. The planning office told us no way no how would we be able to extend or put a house there as it was built in ' the local vernacular'. That being the style that could have been built pretty much anywhere in Northern europ pretty much any time between the war and now.

choille

To back to someone who mentioned they had a boring hedge; I've seen a tiny, trumpet-shaped, red flower that has been grown through a hedge - it has prolific flowers & is stunning. Sorry don't know its name.

Pouring down here still - beyond a joke now!

lostinrates

I'll be taking pics here in the wreck this week. Today the builders have temporarily turned our out door loo in to a palacial indoor one, with three entrance doors! We all think this is a goot but if you were a bit older, less exhibitionist or not a builder chances are this is the beginning of the months or years people get a static for!

Itismehonest

lostinrates wrote: »

Planners, in our experience of searching and asking, restrict to bungalows amazingly often.

We saw one place i loved the location of incredibly, incredibly, with a hngalow. The planning office told us no way no how would we be able to extend or put a house there as it was built in ' the local vernacular'. That being the style that could have been built pretty much anywhere in Northern europ pretty much any time between the war and now.

Planners can be a total law unto themselves, can't they? We once had a real headache because a local "vernacular building" guy with clout in Planning liked a 1982 replacement window :eek: This in a place going back hundreds of years.
Common sense eventually prevailed & we were allowed to get rid of it but not without cost & loss of time.

lostinrates

rozeepozee wrote: »

LIR, you definately have a literary career ahead of you. "Tales from the Old Farm Muckheap", first Chapter "Poop Soup"? :rotfl:

Welcome Betony!

Be nice wouldn't it. In fact i showed that and some other notes to someone in the correct sort of publishing who smiled sorrowfully and told me it wasn't as bad as some outlines he had received, but ultimately i am only marginally less untalented than others he turns away. If someone you know will be as blunt i think thats telling.

Shame, it would be excellent writing therapy for me...:)

lostinrates

Itismehonest wrote: »

Planners can be a total law unto themselves, can't they? We once had a real headache because a local "vernacular building" guy with clout in Planning liked a 1982 replacement window :eek: This in a place going back hundreds of years.
Common sense eventually prevailed & we were allowed to get rid of it but not without cost & loss of time.

Where we plan to put a staircase the listed buildings officer was a bit perturbed as the ceiling there is so well preserved. I pointed out it was 1960s or seventies plaster board....put in when half the house fell down and presumably took the original ceiling too. The staircase is also listed as original,but it most certainly is not,but it can stay!

rozeepozee

I've a picture of the sketch of the planned new front elevation, but I need to convert it to jpeg I think to get it to upload to the imageshack account I have before I can post it here.

Basically, the architect has suggested we raise the roof by 1.5m and this will give us 5 bedrooms and two bathrooms in the roof where there is currently an unrefurbed loft. Downstairs, where the bedrooms are now will be converted into modern living areas (it hasn't been modernised since it was built in the late 60s) and where the integral garage is, we'll be able to create a bedroom for a granny annexe and have a mini kitchen/living area for the Olds as and when they want to stay...

In the short term, I suspect funds will only stretch to creating the shell. We're on a frugal challnge now so that we have the savings to fit the place out over the next few years. In true MSE style, we don't much care for debt around here.