The plan

Now the house was virtually a shell it was time to get someone in to do drawings of the house to submit to the planning authority. We had a good idea of what we wanted to do to the house and where we wanted things to be.

Through a friend of my parents' we got in touch with an architectural technician who drew up plans to some sketches we had put together and we were able to modify as he drew them to scale.

Here is a rough drawing of the original house

Original House Sketch

...and here is the detailed drawing of how the new house will be.

New Plan

It's quite different, and downstairs gives us a w.c, large lounge/dining area, and larger kitchen using some of the original entrance room and knocking through to a storage shed at the rear of the house.

Upstairs we get an additional bedroom and all are now doubles and the master bedroom has an en-suite. The plan is to build off the current single storey areas on the house and this will almost double the upstairs area. We have also tried to make the windows a little more uniform in shape and improve the appearance of the house where we can.

The main bedroom will have a large window in the gable end and folding sliding doors in the lounge. Some parts of this was a concern to a neighbour so we had to move the large bedroom window to the left side as it was originally designed on the right. To be honest this was a better design when we looked at it and gave us more useful wall space in the bedroom.