Home extensions 2017- the one where all builders are dickheads.

[monkeyfacegrace]

Link to the old thread.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/property/2847599-Home-Extensions-2017-come-along-on-the-journey

As you were ladies.

We’re going all blue! I’m desperately trying to persuade hubby to get ours from diy kitchens 😬

I've gone grey! Norton oak painted lamp room grey!

Wish I'd gone bloody blue now!

And you're all posh and your extensions and kitchens are huge and mines all tiny and shit

Are we allowed extension envy?! Next time I extend I'm going to be a master at this!

Well at least it's relatively easy to paint over / replace kitchen cabinet doors as opposed to sanitary ware which you're kind of stuck with!

monkey lamp room grey will be great. I was just saying something similar to DH. I don't think I ever want to do this again but if I did at least I would know what I was doing this time!

I have a grey kitchen monkey and no blue in sight.

My extension is small monkey. Not even space for a utility room.

It's not painted yet believe but yes, I want it to look/feel quite opulent because the dining room will only ever get used for dinner parties and Christmas!
monkey yours won't be shit once everything's sorted- don't worry! I love lamp room grey!
glorious I agree. 20 years from now we'll be ripping off all our kitchen doors and spraying them magnolia

I am also not allowed grey kitchen units as they were vetoed by dh. The plan is to go white and have bright tiles/walls instead. Walls are even easier to paint if you get bored.

Where is the door and/or window in your utility Namedy?

Dh didn't even know we were getting a new kitchen, genuinely 😂

I literally haven't told him anything!

At the moment there's no door, just the opening going into the landing (builder says it's better that way - I originally wanted a pocket door). And no window, sadly.

Ha it's like we're all sharing one brain cell at the moment! I've just said to DP that the next time we do this I'll be a dab hand. But immediately remembered I shall never ever live through an extension again, even if my life depended on it!

@Believeitornot, thanks so much for the suggestion! Will see tomorrow whether it's possible. I actually don't think it'll be a problem to move the tumble dryer as we're keeping our existing condensing one, so it can in theory be moved anywhere.

With tiles, I was also thinking about a white herringbone affair, but then decided I needed colour so maybe something Moroccan-y, but then read in a magazine today that it has to be antique mirror! Might wait for some of you lot to decide that for me!!

@monkeyfacegrace - how?! Did he not notice the chaos around him??

Love your lights by the way - was looking for something very similar but annoyingly couldn't find anything quite the right dimensions for our island.

Everyone is having such a lovely time talking about lovely kitchens & stuff I don't want to post my latest doom & gloom update! ☹️

I'll wait til the ends of the week when I can counter it with glorious patio photos!

Monkey mine knew when I was ready to 'checkout' & asked him for his credit card! 😂😂😂

In that case believitornot has a great suggestion. Just note that the corner 600mm unit will need a corner solution for access. I always recommend reading the machines to chest height to allow easy loading. Make sure doors of machines are hinged on opposite sides so they don’t open and obstruct the middle.

Reading=siting

Autocorrect grrrr

Evening all! After a rare day with no house invaders on Monday, we’re back to doors open, traipsing in/out up/down today. En suite progressing well, construction started on downstairs wc 🚽 Any recommendations for v small sanitary ware? Budget is dwindling so looking to get functional and affordable!

P.s I’ve gone white units but Hague on the walls (baaaaaaa)

We've just had to pay nearly double the amount for insulation as there is a nationwide shortage of 100mm celotex!

Our builders told us about that, apparently there was a fire at the factory. Thankfully our builders managed to get some but our extension is set price

monkey - I am definitely not posh! A lot of people have told me that our extension is financial madness because it's £££ compared to the value of the house, which is basically a cheap and very ordinary 1920s semi in a lower middle class area. What they do not realise is that DH and I have rather, ahem, unusual space requirement being childless (infertility ) and having a collection of books and records that will not fit in any normal house we could afford. The reason we are building a 1.5 x height room is so we can fit a huge 4 metre high bookcase down it. I think for both of us the new house is a way of reimagining our lives without kids. You're doing such a great job - I was so impressed by the fact you have been sourcing amazing glazing and stuff for cheaps and the pictures you've posted suggest the end result looks very expensive indeed!!

I love the sound of y'alls navy island units! And I love, love, love whatashowers gorgeous smoky kitchen. I am so torn on this. My interior finishes are all basically designed around dark grey/concrete/plywood/white, with a lighter kitchen (white units/some oak units/grey) for a kind of Scandinavian look. I don't think I can really jump now because some of this stuff has been pre-ordered for a year (tiles, particularly)...

Hidehide - this may be a bit lower budget than you were thinking of, but Bathstore were really cheap when I needed a small, modern sink for my bathroom because I cracked the previous one dropping a glass bottle of bubblebath on it.

Where is @spydie? Thinking of you, lass.

Hi guys. Glad to find you. Just popping on to say to hidehide to check out clickbasin for a wide range of reasonably priced small sinks.
It’s the only thing we didn’t get from good old Victoria Plum
www.clickbasin.co.uk.
Having a rubbish week here. One of our beloved cats was run over yesterday. And yes I would trade my extension and gorgeous blue units to have her back, in a heartbeat 😢

Oh no, whatashower - how awful! It's so utterly devastating to lose them, and doubly a shock when it is sudden. I am v v attached to my cat, and when my last one - who was an absolute sweetheart - died (cancer) I was sobbing for days. and virtual hand-holding for you.

Thank you whiskyowl. We don’t have kids (same reason as you and so totally recognise your extension reasons/aspirations) so we are disproportionately attached. She was very young so we just feel so awful.

Oh whatashower - I'm so, so sorry. It's particularly awful when they are wee and so full of life (if a little bonkers). She must have had a lovely life with you, bet she was spoiled rotten with care and attention and love. My heart goes out to you, it really does. Hope you can be gentle with yourself today and take good care of yourself.