We moved to this house about a year ago and we decided we needed a further bedroom. It had four (decent sized) bedrooms but we had moved from a five bed place - albeit smaller.
We’ve got four kids. The loft room will be for our eldest (15yr old) daughter. I would add that we’ve employed builders to do the work – I don’t have the time or the skills! Also, we had about half a dozen companies bidding for the design/build but none of them came up with a design that really worked.
With our property it was VERY hard to get a design that worked, especially the stairs In the end we designed it ourself using ‘Google Sketch’, which a simple (and free) CAD program – it was amazingly helpful in helping us to visualise the thing and mess around with designs before knocking half the house down!
So much so, that builder who we are using now uses the software himself to do his own design work and to secure new clients.
Pictures as follows, in some sort of date order!!!
Before from the front:
In the loft (before):
Steels going in:
From the back:
Timbers start to be removed / altered:
Windows start to go in. The room is a ‘T” shape so it’s tricky to photograph:
We had nine windows in total, 6 at the back and three at the front:
The plastering took a week and a half:
We needed to replace every door on the hall, stairs and landing (14 in all) to half hour fire doors (building regs). We opted for some oak ones in the end and we ended up replacing every door in the house (20) because we wanted them all to match.
First floor landing before the stairs went in:
We found some nice oak stairs from some Swedish manufacturer my missus found on the web. We wanted to keep a feeling of ‘space’ in the landing:
From the (new) upper landing:
The door in the background is a large (20ft X 20ft) storage cupboard for storing all the crap we had in our loft!
One side of the bedroom (it;s an ‘L’ shape remember)
And the other side (radiators now in):
The (half complete) ensuite. It will have a toilet, shower, sink etc... all fitted and tiled by the end of June:
Her view from a rear window:
And from a front window:
The project is due for completion at the end of June, following which we will be painting & decorating the walls / skirting boards ceilings, carpeting throughout, putting blinds on the windows and putting in new guttering/fascias/soffits. Then we will be going on a well earned holiday!
The next project (by Christmas) will be putting in a home cinema in a downstairs room which is hardly ever used.
We’ve got four kids. The loft room will be for our eldest (15yr old) daughter. I would add that we’ve employed builders to do the work – I don’t have the time or the skills! Also, we had about half a dozen companies bidding for the design/build but none of them came up with a design that really worked.
With our property it was VERY hard to get a design that worked, especially the stairs In the end we designed it ourself using ‘Google Sketch’, which a simple (and free) CAD program – it was amazingly helpful in helping us to visualise the thing and mess around with designs before knocking half the house down!
So much so, that builder who we are using now uses the software himself to do his own design work and to secure new clients.
Pictures as follows, in some sort of date order!!!
Before from the front:
In the loft (before):
Steels going in:
From the back:
Timbers start to be removed / altered:
Windows start to go in. The room is a ‘T” shape so it’s tricky to photograph:
We had nine windows in total, 6 at the back and three at the front:
The plastering took a week and a half:
We needed to replace every door on the hall, stairs and landing (14 in all) to half hour fire doors (building regs). We opted for some oak ones in the end and we ended up replacing every door in the house (20) because we wanted them all to match.
First floor landing before the stairs went in:
We found some nice oak stairs from some Swedish manufacturer my missus found on the web. We wanted to keep a feeling of ‘space’ in the landing:
From the (new) upper landing:
The door in the background is a large (20ft X 20ft) storage cupboard for storing all the crap we had in our loft!
One side of the bedroom (it;s an ‘L’ shape remember)
And the other side (radiators now in):
The (half complete) ensuite. It will have a toilet, shower, sink etc... all fitted and tiled by the end of June:
Her view from a rear window:
And from a front window:
The project is due for completion at the end of June, following which we will be painting & decorating the walls / skirting boards ceilings, carpeting throughout, putting blinds on the windows and putting in new guttering/fascias/soffits. Then we will be going on a well earned holiday!
The next project (by Christmas) will be putting in a home cinema in a downstairs room which is hardly ever used.
