My new home & project - tips and advice welcomed!

[MickiQ]

Basically, that's the plan.

Except I hate magnolia, I much prefer white walls.

Magnolia is the default colour of the Universe all of Chez Q bar the bathroom and Youngest Q's bedroom (green but MUCH paler green than your hallway) is done in magnolia. In a clear case of sexual discrimination, Mrs Q asked Youngest to pick colours for her room but has just pooh-pooh'ed any suggestion I've ever made.
Mrs Q and I will probably be the target demographic that you will be aiming to sell to in a few years (but not in Worthing Mrs Q will not want to move away from where the grandkids are)
Our current house is feeling way too big for just the two of us with the offspring 90% gone. The idea of a bungalow but with a spare room in case we have someone to stay over seems very appealing.
Best of luck with this project.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

White walls make it look bigger also.

 

[WouldBe]

Magnolia is the default colour of the Universe

Not in my house, it's cream. Warmer and cleaner looking than magnolia.

 

[bellaozzydog]

Absolute top tip about renovating.

If you are doing your own tip runs keep the material/rubbish you are gonna have to transport dry or take it to the tip immediately/that day

The absolute misery of moving rain/waterlogged dirty material into your car and to the tip is fucking awful when it doesn’t need to be

And regular small tip runs mean you are always working with a reasonably clean slate

 

[cupid_stunt]

Absolute top tip about renovating.

If you are doing your own tip runs keep the material/rubbish you are gonna have to transport dry or take it to the tip immediately/that day

The absolute misery of moving rain/waterlogged dirty material into your car and to the tip is fucking awful when it doesn’t need to be

And regular small tip runs mean you are always working with a reasonably clean slate

It's covered with tarpaulin, but I have a small van, so it doesn't matter as much as with a car.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I am lucky vans are allowed into the tips around here, as long as you register it with the council first and get a van permit, but everyone is limited to five trips a month, so I always jam pack it as much as possible, 4 trips in the second half of Oct, 5 done this month, with stuff piling up ready for next month.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Having took out the knackered fitted wardrobes, I was left with a lack of carpet along that wall.



As this will be the last room to sort out, I couldn't live with that, so I've just had some new carpet fitted...



I found a room size remnant for £150, got them to throw in an off cut of underlay & a strip of gritter to fill in the missing bit, fitting reduced from £60 to £50 as I agreed to dispose of the old carpet myself, so all in - £200, which seems reasonable enough.

Oh, and killed off and removed the mould in the corner, which was caused by condensation and not damp coming in.

 

[equationgirl]

It’s a study / single bedroom from what cupid_stunt says - flexible space. Plenty of older folks retiring may want something they can use as a study, which these days also means a separate leisure space for watching TV etc

Or a craft/hobby room/library etc all sorts of reasons to use the extra space.

 

[equationgirl]

What's the roof looking like cupid_stunt anything needing do it there?

 

[cupid_stunt]

What's the roof looking like cupid_stunt anything needing do it there?

Roof is fine.

 

[equationgirl]

Roof is fine.

Just those mint green walls then. I'm sensing your mum loved green - it's good that she was so happy in the house and didn't conform.