This is probably going to be long (stream-of-consciousness) so bear with me.
We've recently moved into a miserable moneypit house and (for my sanity if nothing else) need to make some improvements. In the short term we have 2 possible projects and we can't decide which is the priority.
(1) The master bedroom has a huge en suite shower room of very dubious workmanship and poorly designed layout (it is not original to house). We have concerns about dodgy installation of soil pipe, poor plumbing with high probability of hidden leaks, hideous tiling, etc. The size and poor design also means that the bedroom is (spatially) wrecked - we can't sensibly fit a double bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers . Because of this, we are squeezed into 2nd bedroom, while the master bedroom is a wasteland of boxes and junk. So we would like to redesign layout to make smaller en suite and useable master bedroom all done to a proper standard. Obviously this will cost not just the bathroom work but also complete redecoration of the bedroom.
(2) The kitchen is another disaster area of poorly designed layout, insufficient storage and awful standard of installation (are you sensing a theme here?). Despite the kitchen being a decent-sized room, the previous owners moved the boiler upstairs into what is now DD2's bedroom. So we would like to move the boiler back, which will require a new kitchen design as there is nowhere we can fit it with the current arrangement of units. And while we're at it, we're planning to knock through into the dining room and install some French doors to the garden.
We have about £10-15K to spend, which is probably plenty for (1) but rather tight for (2). But we feel that (1) is a bit selfish, whilst the whole family (especially DD2) would benefit from (2). So, wise MNetters, WWYD?
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TheElementsSong · 09/05/2016 13:07
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