Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

choille

Rummer wrote: »

I have a building type question that I hope someone can help me with. Currently we are thinking of using our dining room as a nursery, however I am loathed to lose that family space and so I am considering another option that I need some advice on.

Upstairs we have two bedrooms a small double and large room with a walk in wardrobe that could easily be split into two. It is tricky to explain but bear with me. The walk in wardrobe is at the bottom of the room and extends onto the landing which has a large cupboard that backs onto the walk in wardrobe.

Now what I was thinking of doing, was putting a stud wall down the middle of the bedroom which will instantly create one room with a door. Then taking out the back of the cupboard in the hall which would extend the landing and lead to a door into the other half of the bedroom. The main issue is that one of the rooms would not have a window although we could add windows of sorts by adding them to the upper part of the stud wall.

That would make three rooms upstairs and still leave our dining room. What I need to know is would I need planning permission to pop up a stud wall and take out the back of the cupboard? Obviously I would get a builder to check if the cupboard back is load bearing, I doubt it is as you can knock the wall. Also curious as to roughly how much it would cost?

It really would be ideal if we could keep the dinning room as there is no other space to eat together in the rest of the house and I do prefer the thought of all the bedrooms being upstairs. However if it is not practical then I will just have to wave my gorgeous table goodbye, sniff.

You do have to have windows to the outside - this is for light, ventilation & fire escape - health & safety.

Could you eventually have a bed settee in the dining room & a drop leaf table for you & OH - not ideal?

How wide is your bedroom window? Could you split it?

choille

We had about three drops of rain today & incredibly hot with loads of clegs about but the roof is really coming together. It's so exciting in a sort of jaded way. I have the fan going this evening as it's sooooo hot & sweaty.

Managed to saw some treelets down that were crowding some acers I'd rescued/liberated from the path of a very posh person's garden.
How everything has grown...suddenly.

I should of watered stuff but haven't. Most of my onions have bolted.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

We had about three drops of rain today & incredibly hot with loads of clegs about but the roof is really coming together. It's so exciting in a sort of jaded way. I have the fan going this evening as it's sooooo hot & sweaty.

Managed to saw some treelets down that were crowding some acers I'd rescued/liberated from the path of a very posh person's garden.
How everything has grown...suddenly.

I should of watered stuff but haven't. Most of my onions have bolted.

Glad you are finally getting there with the roof - makes such a difference compared with temporary coverings.

The Clerodedron bungeii I liberated from a similar rough path, sulked all winter and spring before deigning to grow a few cm. Then I fell over it. It's still clinging to life, but determined to punish me.:(

My reduced 50p Radar onions from a local farmers' shop tried to bolt, but I cut the flowers off. I pulled them today and they're fine.

choille

I had a Crinodendron[sp?] that I killed - well it started to die & I had a look & a mole had kinda burrowed all around its roots, so I shifted it & that did the trick. It's crisp. It took a few years to get to four foot or so. I loved it. I will get another.

rozeepozee

I am sleepless and furiously skim reading as I only received my email notification now, should have been yesterday at 7am-ish!

The building work has stopped while we wait for the attic trusses to arrive - next week. Meantime I'm trying to organise the plumbing and heating but have to have three types of installers: electrician, domestic plumber and renewable specialist (need to be MCS approved) for the woodburner and solar thermal. Just as I have finally organised who we are going to have for the latter, the domestic plumbers are all booked up!!!! And I'm still waiting for the electricians to get back to me.....

OH has had the awful job of stripping the roof of it's old disgusting loft insulation (I don't suppose there's a way of reusing this?) and the floorboards (in this heat!) in readiness for the new roof.

And today is the last day of school for six weeks - so between the kids, the build and the stress, I'm not sure how much I'll be at the computer for the forseeable

Sorry to hear of everyone's ailments. Hope they improve soon.

Rummer

Cloudy but warm and dry today. Been lounging about this morning and trying to convince myself to get ready and get started on cleaning the house

To get the garden sorted I am waiting to borrow a friends branch cutters allowing me to deal with the unruly bits of hedge. It is already looking better with the work I have done so far but I am keen to press on and get it done

lostinrates

At last, toms are ripe. We can eat. .

choille

Meltingly hot with loads of cleggs & midgies today. Sweaty indeed. Will have to paddle in the burn at this rate. been cutting out willows again. The banking I planted up with stuff too close together - as you do, so I'm clipping out the ordinary stuff, not that what's left is in any way extraordinary.
Everywhere is so out of control, but there's dragonflies zig zagging about.

Davesnave

We have been at the local Fayre and taking part in the Flower Show..... DW spent all of yesterday preparing her arrangements, but having looked at the others, I think she'll be an 'also ran.' Let's face it, flower arranging is a serious business and there's nothing to say the flowers can't be bought ones.

There's a veg section though......:D But for that blackbird, I could've walked the toms.:mad: I also left my prize lettuce behind in the rush.

Judging's over, no one is texting good news.... yet!

choille

Flower arranging can be cut throat I hear tell. Commiserations, but you may win something.

We seem to have wasps swarming....if they do. They're everywhere. We thought it was a pack of motor-bikes going up the road.