On our way at last

22-2-2013

After over 12 months of waiting for council permission, we can finally say that we can start renvoating and extending our tiny Edwardian double fronted house in Melbourne's Western Suburbs. It has 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, no dining and a teeny tiny living room.

Here is the original kitchen:

We have lived here since 2004, a few months after we got married. It was never intended to be our forever house. We were going to do a fast reno, sell and upgrade. Somehow, money and time got in the way and it was a much slower process than we had planned.

3 children later and we have run out of space. We feel that the cheaper option is to exetnd rather than move house as the stamp duty would kill us. So 14 months ago we put in some basic plans to the council to extend back and add an extra living, ensuite and bedroom.

We think that adding an extra storey would be a much better idea if this is to be our forever house. I say if, because I would never be so rigid as to not be open to the idea of moving if the need be. So on Wednesday we are meeting with our draftsman to run through the plans for the upper storey extension.

Here are our single storey plans. The wider part at the back is all new extension.

After they are drawn up they have to be re-submitted to council and further advertising done before we can actually get the engineering done. That is when we will see how much it will all cost I guess. My Husband will be doing as much of the work as he can as he is a carpenter and we did pretty much all the other renovation work ourselves.

Along the way I will be posting about my decorating ideas and little side jobs. It is all very exciting and I am constantly thinking about how it will all fit together.

Cheers,
Nat