Floor Plans

Good Afternoon readers. I thought I might share with you our floor plans today to give you all a bit of a better idea at what we are looking at here. We are planning to change quite a lot within the house to make it a more sensible layout.

So below is the Survey drawing of the Ground floor as it was when we moved in.

I should probably explain that what my husband and I have bought is half a house - we are splitting a larger property in half to make 2 homes, my parents owning the other half. Hence at point of survey there was no living room or front door. The garage door you saw on the front of the house is top left on the survey above. Below is a photo of the garage just after we moved in.

As you can see - not exactly beautiful but a very useful space. However as this room is nearly larger than our last house we decided to make use of the amazing loft space that we have here and move some of this clutter out to make way for a shiny new living room and hallway.

Below is the plan of what we are hoping to achieve (eventually)

So we began with the garage. My husband and I both work from home at times so it was top priority to make a living room where we could sit and not think about work.

The first problem we encountered was that the supporting beam was not supporting. Yep. If you check out the photo below you'll see the main beam is supported by a prop in the window - not something I really wanted in my new living room. Even worse - the other end of that beam that we assumed went in to the wall in fact rested on the water pipes that were clipped on to the wall.

My structural engineer nearly had kittens. So 2 new RSJ's in to support. And a new structural wall to support them. Which meant foundations. Which meant mess and diggers. So we began clearing the way for the builders to come in. By the end of 2 days hard slog we managed to get it cleared and looking like this.

So tomorrow I'll show you a little of what the Builders did to start making this in to a living room.
Have a fun Tuesday!