It has been quite a week! I am generally a person who doesn't do things by halves so when we moved in to our house, I decided the flow of the house wasn't quite right for how I and Mr S like to live so basically we decided that when money would allow, we would extend our kitchen in to the side return of our Victorian terrace. This lead on to an unhealthy obsession with all of channel 4 home programmes and an addiction to the Grand Designs magazine- the things I learnt from that magazine.
Well my blogger friends, that day arrived on Monday, aka the day of the building chaos so I have decided to document all the highs and lows of a building project so you are all prepared if you ever decide to do anything as crazy as this.
6 hours in, I found I had a huge hole where the extension was going. Quite frankly I was impressed by the builders digging abilities, given that they were having to hand dig this bad boy. The unfortunate news was that the sand soil that had allowed this quick digging, would now mean that we would be needing concrete beams under our extension to support the weight. So the budget keeps rising.
When you are building an extension you learn that you have to make lots of decisions quite quickly otherwise you hold up the build. I was being asked about electrical points on day one and having to plan roughly where the island would go in our new kitchen. This all wasn't helped by the fact, my architect was on honeymoon and we didn't have the foundation plans on paper but being the project manager I am this was quickly resolved. Just hoping the new plans with the utility area appear shortly so I can update the kitchen designer.
Talking of kitchens I am astounded on how much a kitchen costs and typically I fall in love with the most expensive ones. Might of found a cheaper and still good looking alternative but can't move forward with this until I get an updated set of plans so that is one less thing to worry about for this week.
All of this activity has meant I haven't been able to rest as well as normal so the high activity on Monday left me with very low energy on Tuesday. I have been struggling with facial and back pain over the last week or so, however Monday evening, my jaw line was in so much pain, I resorted to putting a bag of frozen spinach on my face. I obviously still have problems with pacing myself but I guess this is a mind set problem as I don't want to be seen doing nothing.
I have also been having sleeping issues again with overly vivid dreams, last night's one that walls kept going up in my house and I was unable to find the perfect place for the kitchen and even George Clarke (the presenter from Ugly House to Lovely House) wasn't able to help me. It is a sign that the worrying me is concerned about the kitchen and the build but I need to remember we will have a beautiful house afterward. This is if Mr S and I can ever decide on the colour of the kitchen.
K x
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