A good house: Go with the flow

We are now four measly weekends away from our new home. Can I get a 'woo'?

WOOOO!

I may have previously mentioned, we have had a make a few design changes to the back of the house. The old bathroom is a laundry and the temporary kitchen has been expanded for longer term use. It continues to surprise me just how well this is all coming together.

We asked for more kitchen shelving, so we now have more kitchen shelving in our temporary kitchen than we have in our townhouse. And the shelving is far more usable than in our current kitchen, which has quite low usability. We are quite ecstatic about how the temporary kitchen is shaping up.

We were going to purchase a cheap, electric upright cooker and use that until the extension is built. After looking at the range we quickly escalated from cheap to lots. The state of low-end cookers is appalling. So we are now installing a temporary cupboard that will hold the induction cooktop and oven we actually want. A small payment for a cupboard is totally worth it, a cheap stove is not.

Which brings me to the bathroom. The bathroom is all but finished. And it is grand. The basin + tap + cupboard, the bath + features, the shower. It's grand. Grand! GRAND!!

We are very happy with the way the bathroom design has worked out. We spent a lot of time looking at features and also sizing and moving objects around in Visio. We knew how big the bath was compared to the wall length, how much space was left for the cupboard, how much bench space the basin consumed, etc. But those are all lines drawn on a Cartesian plane. Although The Shadow can easily turn 2d into 3d in her minds eye, others are not so inclined. Thankfully I trust The Shadow's mind.

One of things she insisted upon was a mirror the length of the wall where the bath is. We debated the height of the mirror (floor to ceiling, tile, mirror, plaster, etc) but we always planned on having it take the entire width. Similarly with the mirror behind the basin, it needed to be big. The two big mirrors really enhance the feeling of space, as they are designed to do. There was some thought that the high ceilings with relatively small room size might back the bathroom feel weird. I don't find it, and I think the mirrors play a significant role.

Another assistant in making the bathroom work is the skylight. Without it the room is completely dark, with it the room has sufficient light for simple tasks. A little light goes a long way.

Just tilt your head to the right a little and you'll enjoy this SO much more.

Basin + Tap + Cupboard = Glory