Biting the Bullet

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

MERLOT heaps & heaps of luck to you and DD.

xxxxx

Sounds wonderful, good l luck !

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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....

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 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.

Sounds so good.

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