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Registered: 5th Jul 00
Location: Aberdeen City
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17th Mar 12 at 11:03

Right....

I'm away working in Angola, and Fee is moving in today

Same style of house as our last one, a bit less ornamental on some of the features but it still retains most things like the covings, doors & frames, stained glass and cast metal ballustrades etc

Main Lounge. Plan to strip & varnish floor boards if they are ok, rip out that fireplace and put a bigger wooden surround in with open fire. Traditional decor like our last place.

Back lounge/sitting room - no real great change, redecorate - modern.

Kitchen (will be getting altered and opened up with the dining room)

Dining Room (see above)

Bedroom 1

Bedroom 2

Bedroom 3

Bedroom 4

Shower room

Bathroom

Vestibule, terrazo floor tiles, features on the freeze etc

Stairs, hall etc (lots of it.... 3 floors... 4 sets of stairs)

Now i just need to wait 3 1/2 weeks till I see it

[Edited on 17-03-2012 by AK]

[Edited on 17-03-2012 by AK]

Ben G

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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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17th Mar 12 at 11:22

jesus christ thats a beast of a house

love the entrance, very grand. also love the high ceilings and traditional coving.

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Registered: 5th Jul 00
Location: Aberdeen City
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17th Mar 12 at 11:59

aye.... should be big enough for me, Fee and Bruno

Daniel_Corsa

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Registered: 21st Apr 04
Location: Wigton, Cumbria
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17th Mar 12 at 12:38

Look forward to progress, your last place was nice, love to see what you do here! Room for another garage?!

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Registered: 5th Jul 00
Location: Aberdeen City
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17th Mar 12 at 13:00

yup... it has a 1 1/2 sized garage just now, but room for wider so will demolish it and build one that will prob be nearly the same dimensions as the last one.

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17th Mar 12 at 17:07

Glutton for punishment?

Looks like it's got bags of potential after redecoration though

Russ

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17th Mar 12 at 19:07

awesome house,

shame there is three stains on every wall

dust on lens?

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Registered: 5th Jul 00
Location: Aberdeen City
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17th Mar 12 at 20:18

yup, inside the lenses somewhere.

Russ

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17th Mar 12 at 20:35

massive project, but massive potential, best of luck

AlunJ

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Registered: 3rd Apr 07
Location: Newport
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17th Mar 12 at 21:25

Arghh clean your lens

Looks like it could be really nice, enjoy

kennySRi

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Registered: 12th Nov 10
Location: Lancashire
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18th Mar 12 at 13:17

Looks a really nice house

Love the size of the rooms and layouts. Cant wait to see the project follow the same steps as the last one but even better!

Hurry up and get it done so you can start on the new garage

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18th Mar 12 at 15:02

garage wont start 'till 2013 I'd think.

We have a few things we need planning permission/warrents for so may get the planning in sooner rather than later this time round.

BIG plans...

Knock through from dining room to kitchen to create a big light space - look into bi-folding doors to make a decent width glass wall type thing out to the side of the house. Change patio doors at the end of the extension (kitchen now) to a window.

Add a dormer (or 2) on the front to make much better use of the loft space. At the moment it has one bedroom on the top floor (used to have 2) and a few big cupboards. Need to speak to architects to see what they think as if its not going to give much extra space in a useful layout it wont really be worth it. I'd also like to make more of a feature of the stained glass thing in the stair ceiling (pergola is it? lit by a skylight in the roof peak). Add a toilet on this floor too.

Change the small front bedroom into a walk in wardrobe and en-suite (with bath).

Change the mezzanine bathroom into a spare bedroom.

Add a toilet on the ground floor under the stairs (currently a cupboard accessed via dining room)

Demolish garage and build full width badboy

So...er.... aye... looks like we may be busy for some time.

Edd

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Registered: 8th Nov 04
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18th Mar 12 at 19:23

I like it very much, for some reason i aspire to own a house with more than one set of stairs in it

Fee

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19th Mar 12 at 09:05

quote:
Originally posted by AK
Change patio doors at the end of the extension (kitchen now) to a window.

that's not part of the plans

Ben J

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Registered: 31st Jan 05
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19th Mar 12 at 09:07

quote:
Originally posted by Fee

quote:
Originally posted by AK
Change patio doors at the end of the extension (kitchen now) to a window.

that's not part of the plans

uh oh #divorce

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Registered: 5th Jul 00
Location: Aberdeen City
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19th Mar 12 at 10:21

oh, ok..... we'll i'd like to change them to white ones then.

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19th Mar 12 at 10:22

...which is a doddle if they are wood, but from memory I think they are PVC. Are they?

I know all the windows are wood.

Fee

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Registered: 16th Nov 05
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19th Mar 12 at 10:27

I dunno

I think the bifolding doors will still work though....we'll just have them folding in rather than out and they will fold up towards the hall door...since it is wider there than I remembered...if that makes sense

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19th Mar 12 at 11:09

some more pics from a better camera, ken

nathy_87

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19th Mar 12 at 12:11

Looks a nice big house there you two have.

Looks like the dog has settled in already.

Can't wait to see the progress done on this one.

Whittie

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Registered: 11th Aug 06
Location: North Wales Drives: BMW, Corsa & Fiat
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19th Mar 12 at 15:39

Where did you get that coffee table from and how much??

Fee

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Registered: 16th Nov 05
Location: With AK
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19th Mar 12 at 15:46

It's from a rainforrest

It was Adam's parents, they gave it to us...but it is really from a rainforrest somewhere
Adam will know more!

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Registered: 5th Jul 00
Location: Aberdeen City
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19th Mar 12 at 18:02

My old man paid a thousand odd years back... Mid 80's I think.

He bought it from someone he knew that was moving back to the US when the oil market crashed round then - that was the small one

Its from a Venzualan rainforest...

pretty cool table

Fee - patio-doors? Plastic or wood?

Fee

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Registered: 16th Nov 05
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19th Mar 12 at 20:30

Wood

M2RTY

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20th Mar 12 at 06:59

love the stonework on these houses, looked at a few similar in colour when i used to visit this lass i was seeing up your way.

Nice big house, lots of work to be done, excited for you all....dorma bedroom needs a bigger window though lol