{"id":140849,"date":"2023-12-29T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/research-re-measure-and-dont-rush-how-to-avoid-a-kitchen-extension-nightmare\/"},"modified":"2023-12-29T18:08:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T11:08:58","slug":"research-re-measure-and-dont-rush-how-to-avoid-a-kitchen-extension-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/research-re-measure-and-dont-rush-how-to-avoid-a-kitchen-extension-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Research, re-measure \u2013 and don\u2019t rush: how to avoid a kitchen extension nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAbsent builders, dodgy contractors, endless delays \u2013 our renovation project quickly went off the rails. These are some hard-won lessonsTo know me is to know my kitchen. For the past three years, ever since my husband and I decided to renovate, it has consumed about 90% of my brain. By autumn 2020, we had lived with our two daughters for 12\u00a0years with a\u00a0small, shabby Ikea kitchen, installed long before we\u2019d bought our London terrace home. The standard solution to the\u00a0storage, countertop and dine-in deficits of\u00a0Victorian living seemed to be the ubiquitous side-return extension. We thought this could be easily accomplished, even if our real goal was to crank up the style factor a few notches.I had long fantasised about integrated appliances, miles of island and a \u201cgadget garage\u201d; and about revamping our poky concrete garden so the indoors flowed out seamlessly through glass. We spotted a\u00a0vaulted glass extension through the window of a\u00a0nearby home and interviewed the architects, a\u00a0young practice I had read about in design blogs. We\u00a0signed off on a glassy addition and waited as planners rejected every iteration. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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