Owen824
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I have now gotten over the fact that my partner and I designed our dream home only then for the economy to turn upside down and forced us to have to rethink. The Cammo Estate project (thread here) was a great one and would have loved to have lived there but life is funny like that. Anyways, I am a firm believer that things happen for a reason and back in July a house came up that we fell in love with. It was just what we were looking for...a complete dump!
We offered the asking price which was well below the value and we got the keys at end of August. This is where the fun begins. I thought I would wait till I had progressed a load of the work before starting a thread.
The house is a semi detached house overlooking Edinburgh West with great views to the Pentlands. It consisted of Large lounge, 3 bedrooms (1 large, 1 normal and 1 small single), 1 bathroom and 1 wc and a kitchen and a few cupboards. The great thing about this house is that it is built on a steep hill and the undercroft is unused.
Our plans are to do a two storey side extension where the old garage is and convert the basement area and extend out the back turning it into a 4 bedroom, 3 bathrooms (1 en-suite), large living room, open plan kitchen/dining/living room, utility room and plenty of cupbiard space
Planning permission has been granted for all work and the work is well underway with myself undertaking all work with help here and there but for the most part (mainly due to a massively tight budget) it is a one man team...me!
The techie stuff
The large living room kit is in my sig and I still have to buy some more for the rest of the house. I have my 900+ dvd collection (stored on HP X510) distributed around the house via various playon!hd's and pcs and music via sonos (not yet installed) to the bedrooms, master en-suiute, and the kitchen/dining/living. The large living room will become the main cinema room with the living room off the kitchen being for everyday viewing. There will be wireless network access as well as wired network points throughout the 3 floors. Think that covers the general gist if what I am aiming to do.
Attached is the layout for the existing and then the new layout.
Pics to follow...
We offered the asking price which was well below the value and we got the keys at end of August. This is where the fun begins. I thought I would wait till I had progressed a load of the work before starting a thread.
The house is a semi detached house overlooking Edinburgh West with great views to the Pentlands. It consisted of Large lounge, 3 bedrooms (1 large, 1 normal and 1 small single), 1 bathroom and 1 wc and a kitchen and a few cupboards. The great thing about this house is that it is built on a steep hill and the undercroft is unused.
Our plans are to do a two storey side extension where the old garage is and convert the basement area and extend out the back turning it into a 4 bedroom, 3 bathrooms (1 en-suite), large living room, open plan kitchen/dining/living room, utility room and plenty of cupbiard space
Planning permission has been granted for all work and the work is well underway with myself undertaking all work with help here and there but for the most part (mainly due to a massively tight budget) it is a one man team...me!
The techie stuff
The large living room kit is in my sig and I still have to buy some more for the rest of the house. I have my 900+ dvd collection (stored on HP X510) distributed around the house via various playon!hd's and pcs and music via sonos (not yet installed) to the bedrooms, master en-suiute, and the kitchen/dining/living. The large living room will become the main cinema room with the living room off the kitchen being for everyday viewing. There will be wireless network access as well as wired network points throughout the 3 floors. Think that covers the general gist if what I am aiming to do.
Attached is the layout for the existing and then the new layout.
Pics to follow...
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