Planning

Planning our renovation...

We have the house (plot), we have (some) budget and we have plenty of ideas. The difficult part is putting on paper what you think you will need as a family. The house will need to be big enough to cater for our needs over the next 15+ years, but not too big and impersonal.

I dream of a large open-plan kitchen, with an island whilst my Husband wants a massive double garage, with space to fix cars, and space to house a gym. All of this boils down to planning and us making sure we budget right to ensure we get the basics right, before letting our dreams get us carried away.

Luckily for me, my husband is a dab hand with AutoCad, and can draw anything to scale. He has spent many an evening drawing up rooms of the house as it is now, and trying to figure out where we start with the renovation work. We decided to break it down into two phases.

Phase 1. Build the garage with master suite above.

Phase 2. Extend the existing house.

Seems pretty easy when you write it down like this, but the truth is, I'll be freaking out the entire time this is being done. Just going to the bathroom when you have two young children is difficult enough, never mind knocking walls down...

This is a rough plan of what we'd like to end up with, downstairs. It is overlapping the current floor plan to give you an idea of size.

We have yet to submit planning as we cannot seem to settle on the final design. Watch this space...