Improvements to your Charlesland Home

FirstIn wrote: »

I know from reading this forum some of the guys have done great things to their homes. I thought having them added to one thread would be good. To inspire others to do the same.

I'll take a few photos later and add them here. If you could do the same that would be great. Thanks

Great idea! We did an attic conversion. I'll put up photos.

And the last few

Very nice SSO, ballpark figure on the outlay if you dont mind me asking?

Nice idea FirstIn. What did you use for the counter top finish there?

We removed the island from the kitchen and put in a new kitchen (L-Shaped). We moved into Charlesland and the house we bought had previous owners so we never needed to buy appliances etc. Until now. We renovated the kitchen in September/October and it feels like a new house.

(We painted the kitchen after these pictures were taken)

I'll take a picture tonight. Basically the door is on the left hand side (next to the giant fridge) and the units on the right hand side go almost the full length. There is 2 foot left to spare for a wine rack and cat tree! It feels much bigger. I'll take a pic this evening.

audreyp wrote: »

I'll take a picture tonight. Basically the door is on the left hand side (next to the giant fridge) and the units on the right hand side go almost the full length. There is 2 foot left to spare for a wine rack and cat tree! It feels much bigger. I'll take a pic this evening.

This looks huge. Is your kitchen to the back of the house?

Attached more pictures, the pictures are a bit dark. I don't have a great camera unfortunately! The vent that was there just basically extracted the steam and put it on the ceiling but the builder put a vent shaft over the presses and boxed it in and it now goes outside now. Which is working well.

The kitchen is at the back of the house, so the patio doors open to my garden. It looks much bigger after the change. Definitely recommend it. There can now be two people in the kitchen cooking at the same time without a murder

2011 wrote: »

Clever use of space.
Good idea to redo the extractor vent as these do not work effectively with the original method. Lighting looks much improved also.
Very well done.

The venting is a great idea as the current cooker hoods dont work as they vent to nowhere..im gona do the same using low profile venting to the outside

audreyp wrote: »

We actually didn't know it was going nowhere until our builder brought it up! And when they took down the presses and extractor and see the colour of the wall and ceiling!! Not pretty..

Its like the chimneys etc a lot of people dont realise they are false..did he run the ducting to the vent beside the patio door?

2011 wrote: »

So all of the greasy steam, cooking smells etc. was simply vented into the ceiling void?

You gotta love these Celtic Tiger builders :rolleyes:

I had a similar situation in my own home (built by Durkan Residential).

It dosent even vent into the celing the 'stack'just ends st the celing..and the hood relys in s filter system to extract steam .smoke etc.

2011 wrote: »

You are correct, my bad.
I misread and thought audreyp was saying that it was previously vented to the ceiling void.
I understand that it is done correctly now.

I hope that all of those involved (builder, trades) get the recognition they deserve for such an excellent job.
This work must have done wonders for the overall value of this home.

Thanks all! The extractor previous just extractor steam into a lovely stain on the wall but now it works properly! Thrilled with the result. We renovated the bathroom 2 years ago also. Will post pictures when it's clean 😄

Hopefully next year we will tackle the attic and then we will be happy to stay here indefinitely. Really love the area so no need to move anymore!

FirstIn wrote: »

Another location where space can be reclaimed in the 2 bed town houses is in the downstairs loo.

The cupboard beside the toilet is very shallow but this can be extended much further back, i.e dictated by the stair steps.

Has anyone done that?

Yes done. We removed the whole cupboard though to make the room bigger and put new doors in to get under the stairs. Only crappy thing is the waste pipe from the loo goes into the ground in front of one of the double doors. The builder also said he did one and the gas pipe was running straight across the middle and had to be rerouted ours is tucked nicely along the back though so was ok there.

Ive done this too..theres s good amount of useful space in behind the press..