We inch forward slowly.
House designs are being drawn up by the architects and are shuttling through the ether between us with comments and costings.
We are in a continual state of debate at this stage around how best to design the space we need, based on our individual lifestyles and our lifetime experience of previous homes. All within the uncomfortably constraining straitjacket of affordability.
It’s exciting and terrifying all at the same time. The architects are concerned with flow, space and light, and we are concerned with mud, storage and costs. It’s all on paper, and so it’s difficult to visualise the space with any degree of accuracy.
We do what we can, pace out room sizes at home and try and imagine our furniture in situ in the new space. I dream of colour schemes, boot rooms and utility rooms at the moment…
Somehow, we promise ourselves, this will all eventually come together in a wonderfully graceful ballet, but we’re still to be convinced of that!
Ravencroft Skye 
All very exciting. Speaking as someone with a house missing half it’s first floor at the moment, the plans will give way to action before you know it. And I’m sure it will all be worth it when you move into the finished thing (she says, tripping over toys whilst cooking in her living room…!).
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Thank you! Long way to go yet, but am definitely looking forward to having a floor and things to trip over ☺️
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It will! I have no doubt that you are creating the home of your dreams.
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It’s so much fun, but also such a sense of responsibility to get it right, because if we don’t I have no one else to blame other than myself! The pressure 😳☺️
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