A time to build up, a time to break down

This is our house. Richard bought it for himself 10 and ½ years ago. It's a two bedroom semi-detached house and was perfect for one person. I moved in nearly 4 years ago (where does the time go?) and it's been a good house for us, but recently we've decided we could use some more space.

Last year we put the house up on the market. It had been on for a few months and we hadn't had much interest in it and also we weren't too interested in any other houses that were being sold. One day during our lunch break chats Richard mentioned that maybe we should just look into building an extension on our house. It's all I could think about for the rest of the day, it was a brilliant idea! We like the area where we live, we just wanted a couple more bedrooms and a bigger living room and kitchen. By building the extension we could have everything exactly the way we want it. I could have a utility (laundry) room! After having a proper think about it, we took the house off the market and got started with the whole planning process of building an extension.

I'll spare you the boring details about the planning process. Let's just say we've had some obstacles along the way, but finally after 6 months of planning (or more, I may have lost track of time), we have an official start date for the building work! The work will start in early May and should take around 16 weeks to complete. I'll be posting more "before" photos soon and will be updating the blog along the way with photos of the work being done and then of course the "after" photos of our new home.