There's always a catch

Good news: the Council have granted us planning permission.

Bad news: they are insisting that the extension be pushed back 50cm from the line of the original house. We're still working out how this is going to affect things like the shape of the kitchen and the design of the roof, but we foresee problems ahead.

More news as it happens...

Seeds of a kitchen

Today we saw a man about a kitchen. It all went quite well and the initial quote came in some way under what we were expecting (but don't tell him that). Unfortunately for blogging purposes, we don't get any of the pictures until we put a deposit down, which we won't be doing until we have a few more quotes. Suffice it to say it's cherry and it has an island with a sink in it.