Looking like a real home now Merlot, all new and pristine! 
Good Morning Wednesday 22nd April 2026
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After lots of delays thanks to issues with the planning department and DD having a few work/financial problems which thankfully now seem to be sorted. WE'RE OFF!!
Most of the existing internal walls of the industrial unit we're converting have now been demolished and the holes cut for the new windows. I'm allowing myself to get a little big excited!!
Thanks, dusty Building regs are quite strict about woodburners now so the flue system actually cost more than the stove itself! They are paranoid about emissions so although we installed it ourselves we took advice from the building inspector. Everything came from eBay.... A professional installer would have charged us three times as much!
It supplies 12Kw at full blast so we should be toasty.
The lights are from Homebase.... Special offer 
Like your lights too.
How exciting merlot. I'm so envious. 
I really like your wood burner, we had decided not to have one but when I see one I like, I waver. 
I am so envious merlotgran. We are still waiting for the final planning permission to convert one of our outbuildings. The builders are on stand by for mid September, now I'm worried that planning might take longer and they start another job first. Daren't count our chickens and pack up properly yet but if it does happen we are going to have to get a move on and get it done very quickly.
I'm sure it will be worth it eventually. 
That sounds to me like a most elegant solution and a win-win for all.
My daughter and her husband lived with us for 8 months till June this year and It was a very happy household. I miss the cash - they insisted on paying.
If we all had our own accommodation (and not squeezed into our little house), it would have been perfect.
Grannyknot. I used to have my own catering business way back in the eighties and nineties. When we bought our smallholding in 1990 we built a small industrial unit to run the business from. DH had the foresight to design it with possible conversion in mind so it was built to a high spec and met with the required building regs for a dwelling. In 2000 I sold the business and leased the unit to another catering firm. They moved on four years ago and we were tempted to find another tenant but it soon became a no brainer that we should convert it to a dwelling for us so DD and the DGSs could rent our bungalow from us thereby earning us a bit of extra dosh and saving her from the extortionate private rent she was paying.
So we're doing our bit.....downsizing (again) to free up a three bedroom property for a family. [halo emoticon]
janer
I'm amazed we haven't had more blazing rows disagreements over the interior but he seems to have resigned himself to letting me have my way in all things interior.
Storage must be carefully managed so I'm scratching my head over the 'man corner' which lurks beside his chair and is cluttered up with fishing magazines, roadmaps, various small hand tools, Screwfix catalogue etc., etc.,
There won't be a recess to shove it all into so I might resort to a toybox!!
oooh the temptation... I know it's bad of me but just occasionally I see a pretty little teeny cottage with no room for storage of childhood games, strange bits of electrical Stuff and old computers and let myself fantasise for a moment.. He of course would be in the ugly functional one next door trying to find places for it all without my expert tidying away abilities.
I might even take DH....If he's good
merlot I can hear your excitement I am on a Fb up-cycling group who are doing amazing transformations, send me a pm if you would like the details. I have found some amazing ideas for our project.
Sounds lovely
No date for the bubbly yet. The thought of actually moving is scaring me to death even though it's only to the bottom of the garden. I'm being so lazy about packing
I've never lived in a conversion/new build before. I won't know myself with level floors, straight lines and window frames that will never need painting.
I'm enjoying upcycling the furniture that will go in the bit of kitchen with no fitted units. Mum's old dresser, a wardrobe (converted into a broom cupboard) an IKEA butcher's block and a wine rack, rescued from a pub that's being refurbed.
What a happy time for you merlotgran. The view of the garden path out your window says it all! Do relax and enjoy it 
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