Operation Extension

[Yorky]

We have just started the process of extending our currently 2.5 bed semi. We are hoping to add 2 more bedrooms and double the size of the kitchen.

DH, being a social media geek, has created a FB page for the project and called it Operation Extension. He sees it as a live birth thread for the extension!

Please follow our progress and help choose tiles and work surfaces on www.facebook.com/pages/Operation-Extension/484571644902766?sk=wall&filter=2&notif_t=wall

The more 'likes' we have, the better the architect and builder will have to behave!

Sorry, this might be easier!

Liked :o curious to see how it pans out!

I liked this - and then realise you have same planner as us (good but slow!). We are just getting builder sorted (hopefully). Will keep updated

We're just waiting for the building warrant to come through for our extension, we have a 2.5 bedroom house, upstairs doubling the size of the box room, adding another bedroom, downstairs, a bedroom to the front, utility and sunroom at the back.

Will check your page in a bit :)

Wow Stoatie, of all bizarre coincidences! I'm glad you said he was good though
Just from our initial impressions of meeting half a dozen architects within a week, we liked him, and he quoted a good price too. How far have you got with your extension, and what are you adding?

We have planning permission (finally, had to revise plans a bit etc). Just having plans drawn up for building control (using private inspector). We have asked several builders for quotes (need to chase them up) but one builder also does gardens, he has just done our garden so is coming to quote this week and hopefully will want the job.

We have a semi with long garage the length of house, this will be demolished and rebuilt to make garage, utility room, and extend to rear, kitchen extension to rear, then knock through old kitchen into dining room to make a large kitchen/diner/family room at rear of property. Create downstairs toilet. Upstairs - small extension to side (over some of garage) relocate bathroom into this space,extend existing bathroom over new kitchen extension this will become fourth bedroom (and ensuite). Finally steal some space from second bedroom to create ensuite for our room.

So will go from 3 bedrooms and one toilet and small kitchen, to large family kitchen, family bathroom, 2 ensuites and downstairs cloakroom - I hope!!

That sounds like a lot of work, but should be so much easier to live in when its done.Your house atm sounds like ours 2 bedrooms, small office, inadequate kitchen and no downstairs loo - hoping to finish the project with 4 double bedrooms, slightly bigger office, downstairs loo and utility room and, like you, lovely big kitchen diner. Slightly jealous of your garage though

Thanks juzza, I'll have a look at his site

There are some names we don't recognise showing as liking Operation Extension so hoping there are some MNers being nosey taking an interest, not just polite relatives!

www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.436790086725.212239.673486725&type=3

Can I add my link too please?

Lovely pictures Nunnie, thank you for sharing.
I got a little excited when I saw bricks, and then when I got to the ones where you've started fitting the kitchenunitsss should that be or ?!
Dare I ask how long it took you to get from drawings to building?
And who you used for your kitchen and how you found them?
Thank you

We started doing the first set of foundations the year after plans were drawn and approved. Then waited a further 2 years to start the 2nd set of foundations and building the single storey extension (still not fitted the kitchen was just being unwrapped) which is still work in progress. Then we will have to wait another couplde of years before we can add on the double garage two storey extension.

We have used howdens for kitchen because I found them to be very helpful at initial meeting and they sent a fab video plan for us.

my-kitchen.howdens.com/plan/gbD6505010002Nma/

Also there was a whole lot of kitchen for the price they quoted.

Hope your build goes well.

Just ordered my kitchen (not that we have started build) but best price was in a very small window of time so have just been in to ok it all - how much debating can a girl do over taps? just need to finalise price tomorrow and decide on worktop (ie can we afford granite or not!)

Oooh Stoatie, exciting times! I can't wait to order my kitchen but I can't even get accurate quotes until we've got a floorplan to fit it into.

What style are you getting, and where from?

Thanks, and have fun

Steel calcs today - oh the high life. We are going with Homebase (as daughter has part time job there so get discount and staff know us!!. Simple style but with curved end units - just debating whether to go mad and have granite work tops!!

Sorry, I'm one of the 'likers' on your Facebook page. We're planning an extension in the near future so looking at as many things like htis as I can in the hope that I can get some good ideas.

Nunnie - we're just working out budget on a building job. I'm debating IKEA kitchen but I can't get a cost out of Howdens until I go with my builder - yours looks great. How was it cost-wise for the units? I'm probably going to source worktop separately.

Welcome to the page aimum! hope we throw up some useful ideas for you

betterwhenthesunshines - I can work it out later with my quote a calculator, but for now the whole bundle including flooring and the appliances came to 10,300.

Update - he's been back with initial plans and we haven't asked for many tweaks, heading to planning much sooner than I thought possible!

The kitchen/diner will be long, light and lovely
We can have a downstairs loo, probably ready just as DC3 finished potty training!
The utility room has become a small upstairs laundry room to house washer and dryer and ceiling airer
En-suite fits, without compromising on the 4th double bedroom

But DH doesn't get his bigger office :( as pushing the wall out to match the porch beneath/in front of it would be too expensive, as the porch foundations are probably inadequate for another floor, it wouldn't gain him very much extra space, and it would make so much mess upstairs taking out the orginial corner of the house. Hope fully when we have more storage in the rest of the house it will fell bigger for him
And ceiling heights and pitch of roof don't allow for the mezzanine bedroom we were hoping to pu ton top of the en-suite - not really surprising, but disappointing

Re: Howdens - they have an extremely limited range of appliances, worktops, sinks/taps, etc - you may well choose to source all these separately to get exactly what you want. I chose Neff/Siemens/Miele none of which are stocked by Howdens (yeah I'm picky!)

Well, we've got draft plan2 back from the architect, and its getting there.
The futility/laundry room has moved upstairs (thanks MN!) and the downstairs loo door has moved. The kitchen diner is Long and will be lovely...

but...

we wanted 4 double bedrooms and the architect has trimmed bedroom 3 as much as he can to make the 'master' bedroom as big as possible next to the en-suite and the utility - and I don't think it works.
Bedroom 3 is 2m x 3.29m, which might be OK for 2DSs as long as they have bunk beds?
How much can I steal back from the 3.29m x 3.64m master bedroom to make bedroom 3 not feel cramped for 2 boys?