The news I have been waiting to tell you!! We have planning permission for our new house extension and the builder is even booked!!!
We have been busy making changes to the drawings since we got planning as we decided to change up the design a bit. Originally we had the back extension added on to give us another dining room space. However, it was causing more issues than it was worth with drainage and costings, so we got rid of it!
The Plans
As you can see not much has changed apart from the part that sticks out, but now we have the kitchen going around in a U type shape with two sets of patio doors across the back. This will give us a great amount of light, including the large Velux window in the kitchen roof.
Patio Doors
I did want to have huge patio doors all the way across the back but as we are removing the wall between the current kitchen and dining room it meant that there would have been no support for it!!! So compromise on the two patio doors instead. I can’t wait to sit at the dining room table looking out into our garden as this spring it’s really been coming alive and looks very pretty.
Tylers Room
Tyler is happy as he gets to have a bigger bedroom so he has lots of ideas running around his head on how he’s going to have all his room set up, he’s very happy as he will have room for a gaming chair now!!
Utility Room
I am super excited about having a utility room, but as you can see it’s not just a utility. I wanted a shower, toilet and house the boiler as well. It means we will now have 2 toilets for a family of five and 2 showers. Well needed and I am sure we will need it even more as my twin girls get older.
I’m going to take my old kitchen units and pop them in here too, I cannot get rid of my lovely white Rangemaster sink as it’s too nice!
Kitchen
The kitchen will be lovely and light with a vaulted ceiling, a large Velux window and the window looking out into the garden. I’ve never been able to look out into the garden whilst washing up!!!! I am also planning on having a double width return on the kitchen that gives me a wide preparing area and underneath is filled double sided with cupboards and drawers. This also will be a great place for food recipe photos as we would love to do more of those on the blog.
Dining Room
The dining room will be a large open plan area to the kitchen and I will have a table that everyone can sit around. Looking out into the garden and no one will feel left out stuck in the kitchen either, making a much more sociable space.
My Office Space
My office will be in this open plan area too, I will make sure I have a desk area that I can organise and make my own little space. It will be nice to be closer to the garden too.
Driveway
We had a requirement on our plans that we have to finish off the driveway and make it larger, so we can have more than 2 cars on it. So now I have to make another decision on driveways!! Oh well keep me busy won’t it and I do love to plan.
Please follow us on our extension journey and help me out along the way!
I hope you will follow us on our extension journey, the builders are booked in for the end of July so I will have lots of things to plan and make decisions on. I think I will document most of my decisions and feelings on Instagram as there are so many lovely home accounts on there to get inspiration from, so I would love it if you would follow me too and help me out to make some decisions!! But I love my blog so will be documenting the way on here too, as well as ideas and things we decide on. So if Instagram isn’t your thing then please sign up to my weekly newsletter for my blog posts, Thank You.
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Exciting times ahead for sure and at least it saves the trouble of a full move xx
Yes that is such a hassle moving!
Oh how exciting! Yay for planning permission. Looks like an exciting project and I can’t wait to see how get you get on.
Thank you, it will be very exciting and lots of fun to make all the decisions!
Ooh, how exciting! We live on the top floor of a tenement building, so the chances of any extensions are zero. Lol.
Lol! Maybe a roof garden!!!
Oh how exciting. I’d love an extension on our house
We really didn’t think we were going to be able to do it, so it’s very exciting!
I am sooooooo excited for you!! the plans look amazing and I can not wait to see the photos as it progresses. You are so going to love all your new space for your family xxxx
Thank you, we really will love having so much more space, I cannot wait!
Hooray! This is all very exciting news. Great to see you plans will be a reality in the near future.
Thank you, lots of decisions to make now!
This all sounds amazing and so exciting. Can’t wait ti see it all take shape!
Thank you I am so excited, it will really change how we live