The White's House: Going up...

Sorry it's been a while!

We've been rather hectic with end of year school stuff, the usual sports days, dance showcases, cake sales and assemblies.

However, as you'll see from the piccies below work on site has been carrying on at a fair pace and we're almost at roof truss stage. (Next week maybe we'll have roof piccies.)

More excitingly we've had the wonderful opportunity to view our kitchen on show at the Homebuilding and Renovating Show in Esher last weekend. Designed by the Myers Touch (www.themyerstouch.co.uk) It is amazing and we're so excited about seeing it (flick down below for piccies).

Currently our discussions are revolving around electrics, bathroom layouts, flooring and internal doors. For example how many TV points do we need when we're all moving towards digital/wireless tech? Future-proofing your home is one of the more important reasons why we're spending some time analysing our electrics. We don't want to reach the point when the kids are teenagers and we've not got data points in their bedrooms to connect their computers. You end up thinking you're going to need a home server which will allow you all to network wherever you are!

As for bathroom layouts - hmm, we're still thinking! We have a lovely master en-suite space which is 2.4m x 2m and whilst it looks a good size, it's proving tricky trying to fit in a separate bath and shower in the right configuration with the window, sink, toilet and towel rail. Many iterations have been tried with miniature cut-outs and square graph paper.

With flooring the dilemma is how much do we want to spend? There is so much choice out there that you have to think you get what you pay for, but on the other hand how wrong can you go with engineered hard wood? Ironically both Rob and I are agreed on what style of wood we want (smoked oak) but we're just trying to find the right quality/price balance.

Finally, internal doors - we've just begun flicking through the catalogues and we are at the slightly bamboozled stage. Just hopeful we can find the right match for our slight modern rustic style that will go with slate and smoked oak flooring!

So without further ado - here's the all important pictures;