
With the cost of moving house continuing to rise, adding rooms to your existing property is a great way of increasing space and adding value.
I started talking about roof dormers in my previous post, how big can a roof dormer be? Some research lead me to EPDM, a type of durable rubber that is used instead of felt to give a flat roof dormer a longer life. A builder also mentioned today that fibreglass is another option, and a little research…
I wish I had read this before extending my home, but as I am writing from personal experience that would have been impossible. This guide could be called “A case study of cowboy builders at work and how disaster was averted”. Several things went wrong for us during this extension. I did not really highlight…
Just been Googling “the perfect bookcase”, but still not sure this is right. My plan: 210 cm wide, 220 cm tall. From the floor; Three 35cm shelves (toy boxes, big kids books. big grown up books (cooking and atlases etc.)). Then two 25cm shelves for smaller books. Then another 35cm shelf for “stuff” – ornaments,…
When we first started to think about our extension we decided to tile the kitchen floor, have wooden floor in the living room, and put down some cheaper vinyl in the utility and side entrance. But of course, this has now all changed. One of the builders suggested a bamboo floor. Bamboo floors are engineered…