It's a Green House

I realised the other day that it may be hard to picture the layout of our house and what walls we have removed etc if you haven't seen it in person, so thought I would share the floor plans, what has been moved and what will be moved. You can see all the before photos here to show the photos of the full house. Also I love a floor plan, it was my favourite part of house hunting and even now I like to look at listings for houses and look at the floor plans...I'm a weirdo ok... The floor plan started out when we bought the house as the below (this is from the listing). The blank area next to the room labelled "kitchen/diner" is under the archway in the original "kitchen" and they missed off the door from the living room to the kitchen on here but it went out of the top left of the living room into the hallway. It generally had a nice flow and plenty of space, but we wanted to adjust the kitchen a bit. The first phase of the wall removal (...

This is where the week by week rundowns will likely end, as it breaks down into single projects after we moved in at the end of week 4. We had to focus in on finishing things or progressing them rather than having 500 unfinished things and also having to live in the house! Through week 4 there was less progress by us as we spent some evenings packing up our stuff and moving it in gradually and some evenings working on the house. At this point we just needed to get it reasonably habitable and make room for our furniture. Moving in was relatively uneventful, we don't have masses of stuff to move and had been able to move smaller things into the house in our cars already so really only had the larger furniture and the last few boxes to move. We even managed a pub lunch halfway through the day :) We had a skip delivered and loaded this up, clearing the rubbish and rubble from the back garden and also putting the old carpets in there. From a waste reduction point of view we t...