Building begins

This time last year we were house hunting, I was so determined to move into a bigger house is a quiet village somewhere in Kent. I found a house I fell in love with but ,y husband was struck with the 'post code' fever. He did not feel safe to move out of Chislehurst and refused to fall for the house in leafy Bexley village stating that he did not like the road which led into the cul de sac.

We then chose to extend our family house to meet our growing children's needs with me demanding a completely new kitchen and being allowed to choose everything from layout and design to what goes in it. Request accepted, planning permission granted I am a happy girl indeed. Oh, I have also started making a girl's small requests with my tiny head resting on my shoulder. You see if we are building a kitchen outside, creating another bedroom downstairs putting an extra WC and still maintaining the playroom, we 'might as well change the stair case, make the landing bigger and re-jig the living room because it makes the house more beautiful and I promise I shall not ask for a bigger house (for now). GRANTED. HERE IS THE PLAN, WORK BEGINS TUESDAY THE SEVENTH OF APRIL (if the builders turn up). I am both excited and apprehensive of living on the building site, I refuse moving out while the work is going on because I want to witness every single step of it.

My house today

Proposed plan