awwwwwwwwwww girls!!!!!!!!!!!!! you are all so so sweet to be so interested!! :grouphugg:
you are going to be so sorry you have asked because Im really excited and house, house, house is all thats really in my vocabulary at the minute so..... prepare to have the pants bored off you!!
I cant believe we have FINALLY started!! - it has taken us TWO AND A HALF YEARS to receive planning permission (turned down twice!!), legal stuff etc.. so to be honest im still in shock that things are actually physically moving!
I would LOVE to post the plans for you to look at but, ive none on pc (architect did them on his) and I dont have a scanner to put some copies on.
Ok, so basically here goes... the house is in the country and I mean, IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE (which I love btw cos always wanted to raise my children in the country, where I was - I know its not to everyones liking) but it is quite central (bout 20min drive) from our major towns. Its on a two acre site and all that surrounds it is hills, trees, fields, cows, sheep.
Its a story and a half (dormer) - I sat down and drew pictures with our architect of exactly what we wanted.
Basically, downstairs has a large hallway,
a sitting room, a study (with a bay window!!) (which will be a play room if I get my own way, a music room if OH gets his), a kitchen, a dining room (with two sets of french doors that overlook the hills), a utility, a small downstairs toilet...
This might sound a bit strange but I put two long, thin window each side of the fire place in sitting room, down to the floor for a feature.
Up stairs has the master bedroom with a dressing room/ walk in wardrobe off it and an ensuite - this might sound strange too but each side of the bed in our room has these big (cant explain the shape?!
) windows each side of it, almost to the floor.
We have two other double bedrooms and one single bedroom. (so 4 in total) oh and bathroom - its big enough cos I might put in a free standing bath.. dunno yet. will have to stand in it.
So we started site preparation last Monday week, the site had to be dug up practically (ground really uneven - had to be leveled) the entrance had to be made (really long windy type avenue into it so that took a little while but I dont mind cos you cant see the house from the (little) road, so really private), we then had the foundations dug, (the house measurements obviously had to be marked out etc first), then they had to put steel in the bottom of this to reinforce the strength, then they came out and poured the cement into it and know the blockies are doing the footings... There is so much to do, we'll be doing well if we're in it for Christmas but I dont care, we have waited this long, a few more months wont matter and because each day, im seeing it come together more and more.
I was down at the site, the past few nights, stacking (trying to?) blocks to have them ready for the builders the next day. LOL - OH is laughing his head off cos, im the girliest of girls and he seems to think this is hilarious!!
Oooohhhhh I cant wait!!! I bet I have bored you all to bits at this stage! Im so sorry, I just cant help it! - you will all know in specific detail how to build a house by the time this is over
Maybe, if the very lovely, lovely Starlight would agree, I could post some progress pics as we go along?
Or is that just boring you way too much.....
I hope you are all doing fantastic!
Pinkdiamond - thank you sweetheart - its really lovely to see you back posting again - I was missing you there!!
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