The Doozer Family Self Build

greenbee

JGB1955 said:

Doozergirl said

Note the height of the flush.  You cannot flush any toilet in our house without dropping the lid!  

We recently stayed in a hotel with a loo.like that...it was super-annoying!  Second only to the total lack of shelf space for toiletries  toothbrushes etc etc.   Each to their own!

Given what happens when you flush the loo, making sure the lid is down is important. As is not keeping your toothbrush anywhere near it. Great design @Doozergirl (all of it, not just the loo!)

Doozergirl

greenbee said:

JGB1955 said:

Doozergirl said

Note the height of the flush.  You cannot flush any toilet in our house without dropping the lid!  

We recently stayed in a hotel with a loo.like that...it was super-annoying!  Second only to the total lack of shelf space for toiletries  toothbrushes etc etc.   Each to their own!

Given what happens when you flush the loo, making sure the lid is down is important. As is not keeping your toothbrush anywhere near it. Great design @Doozergirl (all of it, not just the loo!)

All of that!  🤢 

Thank you.  🙂

goldfinches

That's gorgeous @Doozergirl and a great design, thanks for showing us your photos.

EssexExile

greenbee said:

JGB1955 said:

Doozergirl said

Note the height of the flush.  You cannot flush any toilet in our house without dropping the lid!  

We recently stayed in a hotel with a loo.like that...it was super-annoying!  Second only to the total lack of shelf space for toiletries  toothbrushes etc etc.   Each to their own!

Given what happens when you flush the loo, making sure the lid is down is important. As is not keeping your toothbrush anywhere near it. Great design @Doozergirl (all of it, not just the loo!)

But watching the flush is the most exciting bit of going to the loo!

Doozergirl

EssexExile said:

greenbee said:

JGB1955 said:

Doozergirl said

Note the height of the flush.  You cannot flush any toilet in our house without dropping the lid!  

We recently stayed in a hotel with a loo.like that...it was super-annoying!  Second only to the total lack of shelf space for toiletries  toothbrushes etc etc.   Each to their own!

Given what happens when you flush the loo, making sure the lid is down is important. As is not keeping your toothbrush anywhere near it. Great design @Doozergirl (all of it, not just the loo!)

But watching the flush is the most exciting bit of going to the loo!

Oh. My. God. 

💩 💩 💩 

😂

phoebe1989seb

It's very beautiful, Doozer 😄😄😄 

(And DH - who knows about these things - was impressed with it all, too 😉)

casper_gutman

In my experience the downside of closing the lid when flushing is that too many people don't open it up again to check what state they're leaving the bowl in for the next unsuspecting visitor. 🤢

casper_gutman

Your interiors are stunning by the way, Doozergirl.

Davesnave

I've just realised it's about 16 months since I contributed to this thread! One reason is probably because I'm outclassed here when it comes to finishing; that bathroom's something else!

The other reason is I do millions of photos of the 'works' and hardly ever bother with the finished thing, which usually looks fairly ordinary and boring. I don't mind things being that way myself. I just want to go outdoors and play at farming! Whenever we've consciously tried to do something more 'interesting,' it hasn't worked out as intended, probably because we're not on the same page and I realise we’re much better at gardening than interior design!

Sooo.... I thought I'd just finish the bit I started when I posted the link to the way our bungalow looked when we bought it: (clicky, open in new tab)

https://ibb.co/rtbkzyV

Changing that flat roof meant ripping out the kitchen and the huge Catnic beam that hung into it, inserting a new steel and building above. We also altered the kitchen access to the other end when we relocated the front door: (Open in new tab)

https://ibb.co/1vjBk1V

The kitchen/diner was one of our more successful projects. Facing north, it became a bright and cheerful space, cool in summer and cosy in winter as one wall is heated like a large radiator by the wood burner next door.

As for the overall look of the building, we're happy with that too:

I'm afraid the setting still looks like this, with dumpy bags and redundant fencing. We ran out of cash in 2017 and although we now have enough to complete the landscaping, it's currently a case of "You can't get the staff!"

I'm not displeased. Expenditure overall has been around £400k, which for a completely re-vamped 4 bed with 5.5 acres of  land, stables and a developable 60' modern barn now looks very cheap.....but we have been here 12 years and one of us didn't survive the physical labour so well.

Would we do it again? No! Well....maybe. I dunno. None of us ever knows how the alternatives might have worked out. I've seen some terrible re-build disasters and at least we're still speaking to each other. One key thing we had were people with experience to draw upon and without them I doubt we'd have made it.

Rosa_Damascena

That is some transformation, @Davesnave , and very MSE! 

Your bungalow reminds me of properties in Ireland, charming with plenty of space around them. Do you live off-grid?