{"id":10128,"date":"2016-02-18T21:05:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T21:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10128"},"modified":"2016-02-18T23:53:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T23:53:00","slug":"stop-press-first-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/stop-press-first-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop press! First pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve had a cold day here today so I’m glad that I’d planned to stay in and work all day on my house plans with the wood burner roaring away pumping out heat. And as a result, I was able to get ‘phase 1’ of my plans finished and have produced pictures of the results.<\/p>\n

By ‘phase 1’ I mean just the downstairs extension, excluding the work I have in mind for up in my ‘grenier’ and doing the plans for that will be my next step. In reality, I could live with just the downstairs extension, which provides an extra bedroom\/office on the ground floor, a utility room and a fair sized dining room, but I still intend to go ahead with the upstairs work as well.<\/p>\n

First off, a couple of shots to show how my ‘model’ of my house stands up against the real thing. <\/p>\n

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The first photograph was taken right back in January 2012 and the lighting reflects that. Just the once therefore, I’ve modified the colours in the second shot to make them a bit more similar and although it’s somewhat ‘idealised’, showing none of the imperfections that are present in the real thing, I think that my model has turned out to be a fairly good representation of my house as it currently is.<\/p>\n

The next shot shows my house as currently-is viewed from the kitchen end (north-east) with the big old lime tree that stands outside my kitchen door and overhangs the roof still in place. <\/p>\n

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The lime tree will have to be removed and the ground re-contoured in order to allow the extension to be built and the next pic is of the proposed extension taken from approximately the same view-point.<\/p>\n

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Next a view of the front of the house from approximately the same direction but standing further back to see how it will fit into my garden.<\/p>\n

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Now a view of the back of the house. I hope to install new hardwood framed double-glazed windows and doors throughout. The following shot of the rear shows the new sliding doors that I hope to install leading out ultimately onto an area of decking.<\/p>\n

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Now a shot of the front again, but taken this time from the other side of the garden. From left to right, the extension will contain a bedroom\/office, an entrance hall, a dining room and at the far end, a utility room. The windows shown on the dining room are not strictly correct as although they depict sliding windows, I’d like to have four leaves, two of which will slide, so half of the window can be completely opened up to the garden during warm periods.<\/p>\n

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Now a few general shots of the extended property taken from various angles and different elevations.<\/p>\n

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And to finish off, a couple of shots taken from each end of the extension giving an impression of how it will appear from closer-up at ground level.<\/p>\n

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Next time, I’ll show some pictures taken while ‘walking through’ the interior of the extended property.<\/p>\n

Wheels are already beginning to grind slowly into motion as the men will be coming in at the end of the month to take down the lime tree and a few others that I want removed and will be back in early March to do the ‘terrassement’ of the land in front of the house ready for digging out the foundations for the extension. But there’s lots still to do before work can begin, the main task being completion of my plans and drawings for submission for planning consent. So that’s what I must now go on to do, post-haste!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve had a cold day here today so I’m glad that I’d planned to stay in and work all day on my house plans with the wood burner roaring away pumping out heat. And as a result, I was able to get ‘phase 1’ of my plans finished and have produced pictures of the results. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10128"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10152,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128\/revisions\/10152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}