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Hi, Im looking at house extensions on the property (images and current floorplan below) and what ideas people can come up with. The ideal would be to: Retain the garage Making the kitchen/diner more spacious (potentially one space and/or extending it) Create at least one study (2 people work...

Hello, I need help with my current project I hope more experienced people can help if what I have planned is okay, what should I maybe do different. I live in Europe so building materials might be different. What is important that I have a big balcony which has to elevated around 2 inches. It...

We have a room with a stone archway and I want to create a partition in the archway with a door to create a separate room. We are using this as a cinema room so need to add some soundproofing. I have thought of a couple of solutions, 1. Hang some sliding doors - these would be big with not a...

We have decking in the back of our garden that has rain water storage tanks underneath and a well connected. We want to get rid of it and have turf but a bit stuck how to get there. Once the decking has been lifted there is probably a half meter gap to the tanks and once these are removed...

First time posting, but would like some tips and ideas. We have recently purchased our first house, the whole thing needs work but the garden is where we are stuck and complete novices. It's full of pebbles that my two year old loves to throw and is just too much work. We want something we can...

Hello all, We are looking to add a curved sliding electric gate to the drive. I have attached a sketch of what I think will work. It's a wide gate @ 5.5m We would of course need a dead level concrete base onto which I would attach the curved track rail. The curved track would be make in...

Hi Folks, I as ever need a little guidance to enclosing the exterior steps to my basement. There was a rickety roof with fencing panels for the sides, the roof has rotted and in a race I pulled it all down before it fell down, well it could have been a dead heat. I do not know where to start and...

Hi, I recently had a visit from a guy off my builder and was told that to get rid of the damp in the walls i must replace the concrete floor in each room for a timber one seeing as this once was a property that once had a timber floor throughout. I asked if it was possible just to run a channel...

Hi I am looking to extend my 1930 semi detached house and I'm just deciding to either extend single storey or double. The reason is that the roof of the existing house is causing the dilemma. Basically the existing house has a hipped roof and the last part of the roof cuts into the top bedroom...

Pics for reference https://www.diynot.com/diy/media/albums/paint-mismatch-any-ideas.26510/ Apprantly the builders used dulux trade supermatt, to which i have tried to use retail, dulux matt paint, colour wise they match perfectly, although my new matt paint is very rough in comparison, hence...

Hi there, I was wondering if someone could help me with some ideas. I live in a basement flat which all considering has a decent amount of ambient light. This is helped by patio doors leading onto a patio area which then has a wall some distance away rising to street level. Are there any...

I have recently purchased a house with the floor pan as shown in the attachment. The current layout is less than ideal. What would you do? I am happy with the upstairs layout (I would make the WC/bathroom into one), downstairs is more difficult. Assume all walls apart from the conservatory...