The Extension
(last edited on Wednesday
20th June
2007)
My big project in 2005 and 206 was to extend the house. It is
a
two storey extension at the the
side of the house, where there used to be outhouses and a patch of land
designated 'garage space', which was a fern garden.
The extension comprises, on the ground floor a garage for
storing odds and ends, a kitchen extension, and a cloakroom leading off
the garage, and on the first floor a fairly large en suite bedroom.
That has made it possible to take as lodgers two friends who used to
live nearby in a flat and wanted to live somewhere with a garden..
Clicking on the pictures should produce larger ones
The Original site
from the front:
the jungle
the
fernery
the old back gate
from the back
The Site Cleared
from the
front
from the back
The
Digger
The Old
Drains
Lovely New Plastic Drains
Pouring 10 tons of
concrete concrete a metre deep
Hard Core
Building Further
The girder that supports the Kitchen Ceiling
The Garage
Ceiling
Bricklaying on the first floor, seen
from the
lavatory window
The sky
through a hole in the
roof
The new
roof
timbers
The Old Kitchen decommisioned
The old kitchen
window being
converted to the new back door
The Finished Product
Fom the front, showing the new wall and gates
From the back
Walking through the new kitchen, starting
by entering
the old kitchen area from the hall and walking through to the new area
Looking back from the new kitchen area to the site of the old
one
The garage, in which there will never be room for
a car
