After saving for around 8 years I finally got the keys to my first home last Friday!
Being a bit of a DIY enthusiast I decided that I'd go for a project house, although a few days into the project I'm starting to think a new build would have been much easier/cheaper, but wheres the fun in that? To make matters even more challenging I can't get any time off work so trying to find a balance between getting contractors to handle the work and working late into the evenings. Only benefit is I'm currently renting a house across the road and working from home so makes it easy to meet the contractors.
The property is a 3 bed detached house built around the 1930s, structurally everything seems to be fine. Although a few roof repairs are needed.
As the kitchen/bathroom are both presentable I'm hoping to leave these for a year or two before breaking the bank on them.
Floor plan
Contents
Home Automation
As rack under stairs, with some wall mounted bits.
UniFi access point mounted in the office
Living Room
In ceiling speakers - Niles Audio CM630
Kitchen
In ceiling speakers - Niles Audio CM630
Possibly wall mounted TV
Master Bedroom (with bay window)
Current kit list
In ceiling speakers - Niles Audio CM630
Being a bit of a DIY enthusiast I decided that I'd go for a project house, although a few days into the project I'm starting to think a new build would have been much easier/cheaper, but wheres the fun in that? To make matters even more challenging I can't get any time off work so trying to find a balance between getting contractors to handle the work and working late into the evenings. Only benefit is I'm currently renting a house across the road and working from home so makes it easy to meet the contractors.
The property is a 3 bed detached house built around the 1930s, structurally everything seems to be fine. Although a few roof repairs are needed.
As the kitchen/bathroom are both presentable I'm hoping to leave these for a year or two before breaking the bank on them.
Floor plan
Contents
- House structure/layout - Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5
- House front - Part 1
- Hall/Landing - Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 / Part 8
- Node 0 (under stairs) - Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 / Part 8 / Part 9
- Living Room - Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3
- Front Room
Dining Room (temporary living room)Done - Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 / Part 8 / Part 9 - Kitchen - Part 1
- Master Bedroom - Done - Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 / Part 8 / Part 9
- Office (back bedroom) - Done - Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 / Part 8 / Part 9 / Part 10 / Part 11 / Part 12 / Part 13 / Part 14 / Part 15
- Box room (small bedroom) - Done - Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7
- Upstairs Bathroom - Part 1 / Part 2
- Downstairs Bathroom - Done - Part 1 / Part 2
- Garage - Part 1
- Man Cave - Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3
- Garden - Part ?
- Home Automation - Control - Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4
- Home Automation - Networking - Part 1
Home Automation
- Loxone Miniserver
- 3x Loxone Dimmers extension
- Loxone 1wire extension
- Loxone Air extension
- Loxone Tree extension
- 8x Loxone Air Valves
- Nx Loxone Tree Valves (underfloor heating)
- AV controlled via UniPi (running Node RED)
As rack under stairs, with some wall mounted bits.
- Master server - E5-1620v2, 128GB RAM, 1TB NVMe, 280GB Optane, 1TB SSD, 108TB storage, 10GbE
- Secondary server - Dual E5-2660, 128GB RAM, 10GbE
- Mikrotik CRS317-1G-16S+RM (10GbE core switch)
- Dell 5524P and Dell 5524 stacked
- APC UPS 1500 - With network card
- APC Zero PDU
- Multiswitch for satellite/TV
- 3x HEOS Preamp
- Rotel 1506 - 6 channel amp
- Philips Hue Hub
- Texecom alarm
UniFi access point mounted in the office
Living Room
- Sony 55W829
- Epson TW9400
- Euroscreen Draper ReAct 2.1 93"
- Marantz SR7011
- Rotel 1552 MkII
- B&W 683 S2
- B&W HTM61 S2
- BK400-DF
- Nvidia Shield
- Apple TV
- Media PC
- Silverstone GD08
- MSI B450 Tomohawk Max
- Ryzen 5 3600 with Noctua NH-C14S
- 16GB Corsair Vengeance
- Corsair RM850i
- Intel X540 10GbE NIC
- AMD 5700 XT
- Samsuing SM951 512GB
- Raspberry Pi 2 for RS232 control of Projector screen
In ceiling speakers - Niles Audio CM630
Kitchen
In ceiling speakers - Niles Audio CM630
Possibly wall mounted TV
Master Bedroom (with bay window)
Current kit list
- Sony 50" Andorid
- Marantz NR1508
- Kef LCR
- Intel NUC (i5, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD)
- Hackintosh - 4790K, 32GB RAM, 512GB NVMe, GTX 980
- 3x 4K Dell 27" Monitors
- Audiolab M-DAC
- Audolab 8000P
- B&W 685 S2
- MacBook Pro 2014
- Sony 49" 4K HDR TV
In ceiling speakers - Niles Audio CM630
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