Home extensions 2017 - Christmas is coming

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Just popping in to say that all your homes look beautiful (not a bijou one in sight!) and hope you all have a relaxing, warm and wonderful Christmas!

Oh my! The pics of all your houses look amazing! I am so impressed with the finishes. They all look really high end and gorgeous!!! You should all feel so proud. The end is in sight!

Namedy - That black and white floor...swoons. What is it? Where did you get it from??

There has been some good progress on our end too, thank goodness!
We finally have a working toilet!!! (no door so no privacy but hey, it's a toilet at last! ) The roof for the porch has also been done and it has made such a difference to the look of the house (if you ignore the overflowing skip next to it)!

Husband is now fixing the rails which will support our future kitchen.
I hope our end result looks as good as the ones I've seen here. Feeling dubious about it atm.

Happy Christmas everyone!

Oh Rick I’m so happy to see this - from back when you thought it would never happen to having a proper family home. Brings a tear to my eye! Looks so lovely, with the tree up too!

EJC I got all our tiles from Tons of Tiles in the end.

www.tonsoftiles.co.uk/windmill-geometric-wall-floor-tile-25x25cm.html

I wasn’t sure about them when I bought them (my main criteria was price at that point - they’re very good value!) but I do quite like them now they’re in.

I have no exciting finished pictures to share, but I finally have central heating pipes tucked away in the wall and not in the middle of the floor.

Next week a few of the guys are coming in to do the plastering. Then in the new year the floor goes in and we can start putting the kitchen in.

Thanks very much Namedy - truly gorgeous

Excuse the mess but we have bifolds! One more day of builders tomorrow and we are done for Christmas 😍

Forgot to add the picture

That looks amazing Bax

Thank you Name, I feel quite emotional myself! I had a couple of friends round last night, they were spinning on the bar stools drinking prosecco! ( Dunelm saved the day, not the coolest but comfy & practical until we find what we want)

The full horror of this year has made me want to enjoy the extra space I have, I'm going to open up my house to my friends & do lots of parties & social stuff! Really enjoy it!

So many beautiful pictures!!!! Congratulations to you all for being so nearly done for Christmas !!!!

Tatlerer - love the bath! But love the window fixings too, you'd pay a reasonable amount from a salvage place to buy those!

Love everyone's pictures, jealous of kitchens. We are losing our bathrooms next week and the builders are breaking thro in Jan. Gawd help us - why don't we ever do this sort of thing in July?!

Well our builders left today until the 2nd (although our tiler is coming on the 28th). They've done a grand job at tidying up and laying some temporary floor. We finally have a feel for our new home and there's been lots of laughter and fun tonight
Merry Christmas everyone

Have loved seeing photos of all the homes ready for Christmas. What a few months it has been but sitting tonight looking at our (nearly) finished home ready for Christmas I feel very fortunate.

To those who made it for Christmas enjoy your new improved homes.
To those still in the thick of it - hang on in there.

Wishing everyone in this thread a peaceful, happy and joyful Christmas.

Your place looks lovely Devon, everyone’s does.

We have had some good news over the Christmas break. The water company replied today saying that we can go ahead and build as planned even though we are closer to the sewer pipe than the official guidance. It is only a matter of 6cm so we were hoping they would wave us through! Now the builders can just crack on. Also impressive they got back to us so fast as we were worried we wouldn’t hear until well into January as they said they were very busy and we weren’t sure what opening times would be.

We should have the guys working the rest of this week to plaster the kitchen. Then new floor next week and then actual kitchen.

That's fab news! Always nice to hear companies being understanding!

I hope everyone managed to enjoy their new homes.
Our kitchen is just perfect to entertain in although I'm still desperately trying to keep everything clean! We've had a lovely break from the builders although we have a tiler tomorrow.

Oh and I forgot about this part of doubling the size of your house!

So this is our during photo. We are using the holidays to life at our parents for a couple of weeks so the builders can (re) wire as we had so few plugs this is more of a proper wire than a rewire!

Your after pictures are very encouraging I have spent much time refreshing websites with baskets of electrical appliances on since Christmas day!

Double your photo brought it all rushing back! Shudders! You will get there in the end!

I am having a lovely time off work, done some painting but not too much, loving the extra space & we are warm and toasty! Happy days!

We have tiles!

@devondream that looks amazing!!

@Baxdream love the tiles we had those in our last house.

Nothing happened here - I told the builder to wait until next week. It feels so nice to have the house to ourselves! The old living room is getting neglected now as we are in the new part the most now.

Builders will be back next week to finish! Finally! @Doublejeopardy sewing that picture has taken me back!

So I’m trying to work out the best layout for furniture. Mainly sofas. Dh likes the sofa facing the stove but it then has its back to the door, which I don’t like. I also can’t decide how much seating to squeeze in. Decisions decisions!

Bax that's a nice shade of grey. Where's it from?

It's quiet interlude by valspar. It's perfect actually and works well with the blue

Here's a bigger picture sorry we haven't cut in yet 🙈

Lovely bax! Excellent choice.

Gorgeous Bax.