The Architect

Well that was an interesting meeting. He rang to say he'd come on Sunday morning and turned up right on cue. He spent almost an hour measuring the whole house and funnily only spent a short time measuring the loft! He was all set to go - so I had to ask him to have a seat and discuss the ideas with him that we were planning. He seemed a little surprised. Bizarre - seeing as we are the client and paying him (albeit via the loft company). Anyway, thanks to some good advice from someone who has already had experience with an architect, I had to make it absolutely clear to him what we wanted as he was all set to do what he thought we wanted. He seemed surprised that I wanted to make the loft as big as possible! Considering how much money we are going to have to spend on it, it makes perfect sense to me to get the biggest we can. Anyway, he turned the plans around very quickly. We have a couple of adjustments we wish to make, but these will be down to the structural engineer to make the final decision on. All in all, a postive experience so far and hassle free. Let's hope this continues.

We Reach A Decision

On Monday we went to visit our preferred choice of loft company at their current job. From what we could see it is excellent. Speaking to the owner of the house, she was very pleased with them. We then went to see the man's own loft conversion that he did to his house some years ago. Again, brilliant and those little extra touches that others would want extra money for, he does as standard (an example being swivel spot lights in the ceilings). David parted with the deposit money there and then and we are now booked in for sometime in December. If it gets a bit close to Christmas though, they'll start in the new year. Can't wait!
Of course, now I just want to get on and get things sorted. Currently we have a futon bed, very low to the ground and therefore no storage underneath. We decided that as we will need all the storage we can get, we would have to buy a divan bed with four drawers, hopefully off ebay and not spend too much. Well, as luck would have it, yesterday one came up on freecycle. Only 1 year old and they would throw in a headboard too! Spookily it was the headboard that I was eyeing up in Argos. I whacked an email off straight away and we got it! David picked it up last night and we had spent our first night on it. Will need single beds for the girls and again, as luck would have it, 2 came up on freecycle and we collect them on Saturday! Let's hope everything will be as easy as this.