If you’re a regular client and have stopped by, then you’ll have noticed that I’ve been out of the office at Building Tectonics for a few days. I am having some work done to my house in Milton Keynes at the moment.
It involves putting a new roof on my conservatory to convert it into what I like to call a garden room (regular readers may know how much I hate conservatories – just a waste of money).
Above: The new insulated roof going on in the Conservatory.
This new space will be much much warmer in the winter, will not leak rainwater, will not creak and groan or wake me up during a hail storm (actually I might miss that bit).
I am also having the wall completely removed between the kitchen and the new garden room as opposed to the half hearted approach of the previous occupants who removed the window and door separating these two spaces, which resulted in a very cold kitchen too.
Putting a new roof on required some supporting steelwork and new pad foundations, and a lot of this work was done externally or at least was prepared before the horrible triple skinned polycarbonate roof came off. However there was no escaping the mess and inconvenience of the wall removed. A steel beam had to be inserted before the brick and block work could be removed, and before this some temporary support had to be put in place.
Above: My conservatory (soon to be Garden Room) at my home in Milton Keynes.
This was made more complicated by me not wanting the kitchen units removed. I now wonder if I should have bitten the bullet and replaced the kitchen units at the same time but I wanted to avoid this expense for now.
The kitchen, like the conservatory, was good quality and I must give credit to the previous owners of the house as they were not mean, just misguided in the case of the conservatory.
The sense of the new space is now emerging and I am impatient to see it finished. The kitchen is a very important space, and when it is combined with a family space, so called, which in this case is also a garden room (because it has lots of glass and double doors connecting it to the garden) will be fantastic.
I love to produce such spaces for clients, so it’s especially good to get a chance to work on a project for myself.