Since the keys were handed to me on the 14th February 2020 I’ve spent 27k on this house and I am in no where near a finished state. I have made countless mistakes but I have learnt a lot.
The initial concept was to flip the design, so living room and kitchen upstairs in an open plan configuration, with the two bedrooms and shower room downstairs.
Granted this is not making the most out of the property in terms of resale value. Lots of my neighbours have turned these two bedroom terraces into 4 bedroom homes by building a Dorma in the roof and some fitting two bedrooms and a bathroom in the loft. But only a few more months will tell if the gamble has paid off.
The original vision has had to be scaled back because ive not been able to find suitable tradespeople to take on the job as a whole project for under 90k. So I’m left to try and get it together myself, and with a little help from my friends.
The double height room upstairs still exists but the suspended platform is on the back burner. I’ve made so many concessions recently that I’m adamant the UFH is happening even if I need to vacuum pack my scat and send it to Japan to pay for it.
I am now focusing on the potting shed and it’s doing wonders to just be concentrating on one thing at a time.
The potting shed aka utility, is in upstairs part of the outrigger that will be a landing platform before you enter the main room. So we have built the box out of repurposed floor joists.
We built the top beam into the brickwork for xtra stability, as above the doorway will be storage space.
This upside down concept, im sure has been done before, but I haven’t looked to see if this sort of configuration works anywhere else, so to me this is a gamble. I have kind of made it up as I went along or as they call this in Project Management Research, Agile. OOH YEAH
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