Biting the Bullet

Ooh can understand your excitement merlot If I have a project I want it done now and this will be so lovely for all of you. I hope we can see pics when it's finished.
I'd hire out DD if you were closer. She spent all weekend de cluttering and deep cleaning her friends flat as she has a lodger moving in next week. DD loves a mission

Sounds so good.

I also can feel your excitement and anticipation.I do hope it all goes smoothly and speedily for you.I long for some excitement in my life so I will share yours.

Oh merlot how lucky you are I do love to be involved with designing and decorating you can have evrything bespoke to all your own specifications how marvelous,I am also a a bit like nina I like things done yesterday and if not why not ?

I suppose I could offer to move into my shed and give DD the house, which is far too big for me on my own....

Thanks, everyone. I'll put some pics up as we go along. At the moment I'm re-designing the border which will be outside my kitchen window. Got to get my priorities right!! It'll give me something to focus on while we wait for the go-ahead from the council.

This sounds very exciting and an excellent way of meeting everyone's needs. Good luck with this project.

Oh DF [flowers| but what an excellent idea merlot - don't make it too posh tho or your DD might want it instead!!

Wow, a very big step- and I am so happy to see you are dealing with this in a very positive manner- looking at all the +s rather than -s. Bravo- can't wait to see how you get on. Courage mon amie

Wonderful news. Look forward to following this story until the moving in party

How exciting Merlot, we are hoping to restore/rebuild our 'studio' later this year but we are still waiting for the architect to come back to us to tell us what we can actually do.
Anything will be bigger than it is now but as we will have to move out ourselves, the furniture and all the stuff stored in the adjoining bread oven (a room about 4 metres square) which is crammed full of things that won't fit anywhere else, we have got to seriously declutter first. I just want to wave a magic wand over it all.
Hopefully hearing of your progress will get me going.

Update:

We have had to get cracking as DD has been given two months notice to leave her rented cottage as her landlady wants to sell it! DD asked for a stay of execution and explained what we are doing here but it was a flat NO! I'm really cross because DD has been in the cottage for five years and has been an excellent tenant.

Soooooooo we went out this morning and bought a static caravan (I suppose there's a first for everything) We have the space to put it alongside the building we're going to convert so drainage/septic tank, phone and electricity supply won't be a problem.

The caravan is 35 ft long and sleeps 6. It's in really good condition and tastefully decorated (no dreaded garish orange or purple) DD is so excited and relieved that there will be no more sleepless nights about being homeless.

Phew! We now have two weeks to prepare the site and access.

I'll put up some pics of the caravan on the pics thread. It'll make wonderful guest accommodation when DD moves into our bungalow in fact I rather fancy moving in there myself.

dustyangel I know what you mean about needing a magic wand. If only.....[sigh emoticon]

Oh merlot I love your attitude, 'so, we went out this morning and bought a static caravan', problem solved, excellent!

Wishing you and your family all the very best with your project and for,the future.

Sounds wonderful, good l luck !

MERLOT heaps & heaps of luck to you and DD.

xxxxx

What a fantastic family project! Hoping all goes smoothly and swiftly!

I wish we could do that! What a lovely project.

I'm just really glad that all the plants I've grown to plant up a new border are still in pots. I would have had to dig the whole lot up again to avoid them being flattened by a reversing lorry.

Update:

Oh boy, what a morning. The static caravan (mobile home if you're posh) arrived at 9.30. Four burly men arrived with it - much to my relief as my caravan shoving days are well and truly over (not that they ever began.) Backing the low-loader into position went well and the caravan was unloaded safely but then the lorry got stuck due to heavy rain earlier this week. Don't ask me how I managed to tow it out with my 4x4 but the Gods were with me!

DGS then decided to throw a teenage strop because nobody was available to drive him into town to meet his mates. His younger brother, helpful as ever, handed round coffee and biscuits while DH grumbled that if the lorry driver had listened to him he wouldn't have got stuck in the first place

Our four Polish friends (Yes, UKIP) finally drove off with big smiles on their faces which could probably be explained by the big tip (from me) and four half bottles of Vodka (from clever DD). If you want a good job done, women resort to flattery bribery.

The family moves into the caravan in a fortnight and from then on I think my motto will be, Keep Calm and Bake Cake!

I have been reading your posts with great interest, its a wonderful plan, even though there's a lot of hard work ahead of you.
. Just getting a low loader backed into, where you want it to go is no easy task.

Thanks for the update Merlot. Obviously plain sailing from now on

What a day and thanks for telling us how it went