Digital Mood Board - Bathroom

So, one of the essential things in the new house is to put a bathroom upstairs. This should add value provided we don't lose too much bedroom space, so it's going to have to be pretty small. To help us decide I've been looking at some bathroom ideas, as we want to make the best use of the space, but we would also like to include a bathtub.

We were also considering a tiny toilet room downstairs, but it would take space out of the kitchen, and cost more money, so I think we might have to give up on that idea, although I've some really funky ideas for including a tiny bathroom!

Here are some photos I like the look of to get me started.

 

Digital mood board - Kitchen

So, the house is going through, and it's so very exciting! We don't want to rush the buying process as we're renting till November anyway, so we don't want too big an overlap!

I've been trying to mentally plan out the house. I've never made decisions about a bathroom or kitchen before, so these are the bits I'm most excited about. I'm going to try to keep things fairly muted as we will probably want to sell the house in a few years, but I would still like to put my own stamp on the house.

Attached are some ideas I'm having (think of this as a digital mood board). I don't like everything in each picture, but you might see a recurring theme.

I love the white cabinets, tiled/stone floor and wooden worktops. What do you think?

Happy New Home!

We put in an offer on the house we wanted (and conincidently the first one we saw - but location is everything), and it has been accepted!!

There were already 4 offers on the table, but we offered slightly higher, and we agreed to use their mortgage consultant. We have got the house.

Since getting the house I have mostly been looking at:

• Kitchen designs on pinterest
• Bathroom designs for small bathrooms
• The order of rennovating a property. We will need to rewire, then put central heating in, then replaster, then start to decorate.
• Put together the expenses and where our budgets are. It seems to add up, phew.

I'm so excited to get the house and start work, but it will be the boring things first before we get to start deciding layout or decorating areas. It's going to be mental!

Here are our plans:

1. Strip the previous wallpaper off the walls (see photo of the lounge)
2. Rewire the property (decide where plug sockets will be, and perhaps new lighting/spotlights)
3. Walls plastered
4. Central heating/boiler in the property, with radiators (hopefully double radiators so they take up less room)
5. New windows throughout the property
6.  Decorate walls in lounge. Engineered wood (or laminate) in lounge and hall. Save money
7. Move bathroom upstairs (change room layouts to accomodate small bathroom) - not sure if plumbing needs to be done for this when the central heating is going in... need to look into that! We can't afford to do this for a while anyway.
8. Redecorate upstairs
9. A new kitchen in the existing room but also using the space where the bathroom used to be for a dining area. Small toilet in the corner accessed via the kitchen or hall.
10. Decorate kitchen/dining room
11. Landscape the garden- change slabs for grass and plant flowers.
12. By then we'll be exhausted, and will be happy just to live in the house for a while!

I'm hoping all this work will increase the property value by at least £20,000. Have a look at some photos of the current rooms in the house. Much work to be done!

 The lounge

 Retro kitchen

 Front bedroom

 Second bedroom - with antique wardrobe and chest

 Downstairs bathroom

 Little wooden lean-to at the back

 Garden/garage

 Garden (and next door's greenhouse)

The back of the house from the garden