We're in the middle of renovating our house - pretty much complete modernisation as the house was empty for 10 years before we moved in. The next stage is either doing the loft extension or a 2 storey back extension. We can only afford one, but once we've done that we hope to be able to release some equity to finance the second. The dilemma is which do do first.
The loft will have 2 additional bedrooms and a shower room. The back one will have the family bathroom upstairs and utility downstairs then a storage/cellar underneath. At present the only bathroom is in the lower ground floor. Once we have either of the new bathrooms we'll take out the existing bathroom and open up the lower ground floor to create a big kitchen/breakfast room.
The added dilemma is that baby no 1 is due in January. we should have one of the extensions done by then. My preference is to do the loft first as like the extra bedrooms and a knock on effect is the structural work will be done to enable us to remove the chimney breasts from the rooms below which will in turn make sorting out those rooms quicker. But now there's a baby on the way I'm thinking that only having a shower room is a very bad idea and getting a proper upstairs bathroom should be the priority.
So thoughts anyone? which first?