Browse Forums Renovation + Home Improvement 1 May 26, 2013 7:52 pm Hi All I have been following this website for a while and am super impressed with everyone's advice, so would be great to pick your brains. My partner and I are first time homeowners and looking to be be first time home renovators. Floor plan can be found here: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/15/floorplana.png/ Things about our property: 1. It is a weatherboard Californian Bungalow 2. 341 sqm property, south facing backyard - so getting light into the back of the house is essential 3. We want to turn this house into a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom (one an ensuite) house + keep the studio 4. We would like to have some backyard so would extend out just past the pergola (area is about 8m x 5m), but happily reconfigure floor plan. 5. Want to keep an internal laundry & have plenty of storage 6. The current kitchen is in good shape but happy to move this if it makes sense. We have some ideas on how we could do this but instead of skewing any views, would love to hear all your ideas. Thank you so much in advance. Re: Advice needed for Plans for Home Reno 2May 27, 2013 1:53 pm http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/4628/floorplana.png Nope that didn't work. That's why I like Photobucket better. Stewie Re: Advice needed for Plans for Home Reno 3May 27, 2013 8:08 pm Perhaps turn the veranda on bed 1 into your ensuite and that becomes your master bedroom. Making current living room into a bedroom. Then extend out back into pergola space turning that into an open plan living & meals area. Also is the main bathroom big enough? Re: Advice needed for Plans for Home Reno 6Jun 04, 2013 11:14 pm Hi, I will have a look at this and see what i can loosely come up with. I will say however, do not get rid of the front verandah by turning it into a Ensuite. I can understand it would easily make the Bedroom the main, but you would be sacrificing one of the critical design aspects of a Californian Bungalow. Hi All, I engaged a tradie to install concrete retaining wall 600-800mm high over 32 meters in Victoria. Sleepers are 200*75*2000 mm installed over 17 steel posts. I… 0 6842 Building Standards; Getting It Right! Don't think they are designed for double brick. WA has a particular way of building and unfortunately that's the way a large amount of sills are finished. 3 6986 Hello It is good to have a planned bathroom reno to suit your budget and design, living for 10 years I think you need a bathtub 4 10339 |