Detailed Plans

Here is the plan for the ground floor (minus the kitchen):
The innocuous little diamond in the middle of the large room is actually a pillar. This holds up the 3 beams directly and 2 indirectly - hence the comment in the Builder post about Geoff's insurance - that pillar holds up the house.... once the existing external walls are down the existing house is being supported by props!

The upstairs is more conventional. We have designed the dressing room so that it can be converted to a fourth bedroom easily - mainly in case we want to sell it.

The main extravagance upstairs is the huuuuge bath! Depending on how the budget is going when we get to the bathroom and en-suite, they will either be really nice, or pretty basic - we'll just have to wait and see.

The Kitchen is the big expense downstairs. All being well it will look like this:


This was mocked up using the Alno kitchen planner although it's not an Alno kitchen.