York Build Thread
Discussion
A number of people asked me to post up once the project got going, so here it is.
Mrs G and I moved up to York in late 2018 and after 8 months renting finally found a 1960s bungalow in a great village on the outskirts of the city. We moved in August 2019 and started thinking about what we wanted to do with the place because it had not had much done to it in the almost 60 years since built and needed modernising and enlarging.
We fell in love with the garden and village first and knew we could always do something with the property. We got planning permission in March of this year and finally employed a builder about a month or so back with a start date of the 14th September.
The plans from the architect are below showing the existing elevations and floorplan and the proposed.
Currently (or 2 weeks ago) it looked like this on the outside....
And this on the inside ....
Lounge looking towards the front of the house
Dining area at the rear
Kitchen which is in the centre of the house and gets minimal light.
Front bedroom
Rear bedroom
Shower room
Mrs G and I moved up to York in late 2018 and after 8 months renting finally found a 1960s bungalow in a great village on the outskirts of the city. We moved in August 2019 and started thinking about what we wanted to do with the place because it had not had much done to it in the almost 60 years since built and needed modernising and enlarging.
We fell in love with the garden and village first and knew we could always do something with the property. We got planning permission in March of this year and finally employed a builder about a month or so back with a start date of the 14th September.
The plans from the architect are below showing the existing elevations and floorplan and the proposed.
Currently (or 2 weeks ago) it looked like this on the outside....
And this on the inside ....
Lounge looking towards the front of the house
Dining area at the rear
Kitchen which is in the centre of the house and gets minimal light.
Front bedroom
Rear bedroom
Shower room
ajap1979 said:
Looks great. Did you ever consider having the door to bedroom 3 off the kitchen, then splitting the bathroom into an ensuite for bedroom 1 and a family bathroom?
Yes we did. Apart from not wanting to enter a bedroom from the kitchen (we like the fact that we've got all bedrooms accessible from the hallway and the receptions rooms are all at the rear) both bathrooms would have ended up compromised in size and we preferred having one decent bathroom with a nice free standing bath and large walk-in shower.garyhun said:
ajap1979 said:
Looks great. Did you ever consider having the door to bedroom 3 off the kitchen, then splitting the bathroom into an ensuite for bedroom 1 and a family bathroom?
Yes we did. Apart from not wanting to enter a bedroom from the kitchen (we like the fact that we've got all bedrooms accessible from the hallway and the receptions rooms are all at the rear) both bathrooms would have ended up compromised in size and we preferred having one decent bathroom with a nice free standing bath and large walk-in shower.
ajap1979 said:
garyhun said:
ajap1979 said:
Looks great. Did you ever consider having the door to bedroom 3 off the kitchen, then splitting the bathroom into an ensuite for bedroom 1 and a family bathroom?
Yes we did. Apart from not wanting to enter a bedroom from the kitchen (we like the fact that we've got all bedrooms accessible from the hallway and the receptions rooms are all at the rear) both bathrooms would have ended up compromised in size and we preferred having one decent bathroom with a nice free standing bath and large walk-in shower.
I have a serious question (I hope), how do you afford it paying people to do everything? If it was me I would be in there like a bull in a china shop with a sledge hammer and a shovel demolishing everything. I would then do as much as I could myself at the rebuilding stage.
I have several mates myself and they can't even put a plug on, they save and save but if something happens like the boiler breaks down then it puts them back to square one again and they have to start all over again.
I appreciate that some people earn more than trades people so it would be madness to do the work themselves instead of what they normally do but is this the case with the majority of builds like this?
I have several mates myself and they can't even put a plug on, they save and save but if something happens like the boiler breaks down then it puts them back to square one again and they have to start all over again.
I appreciate that some people earn more than trades people so it would be madness to do the work themselves instead of what they normally do but is this the case with the majority of builds like this?
Megaflow said:
I followed what I assume was your last build thread, how did you end up in York from outside Bourne? Please feel free to tell me to do one if you like.
PS: York is lovely, we walked the old walls at Christmas last year.
My original build thread was in Poole, Dorset back in 2013. Then I moved to Lincs (that was the meadow thread that you are probably referring to) as that was exactly half way between my parents and Mrs G's. After spending three years there we decided to wanted to be in the country but close to a lovely city and hence we moved to York PS: York is lovely, we walked the old walls at Christmas last year.
Edited by Megaflow on Thursday 24th September 16:14
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