You don’t even need an oven – an air fryer really will cover most bases. And what I have mostly learned from living in half a room is that you don’t actually need all that much to live. In the words of all the best Instagram influencers, I will try to “learn” and “grow” from the experience. The lovely, non-leaking house we will have at the end of it all! The fact that the builders found that rotten bit of the roof and how grateful we are to be able to pay another £5,000 to fix it! The good fortune of only having our hot water cut off twice! The fact that we own a house at all (or part-own it, along with the bank), when there used to be a time I exclusively wrote columns about my fear of never being able to get on the property ladder! This is progress, right? R ight ? I shan’t grumble about the time I woke up in the middle of the night to find water pouring through the light fixtures and onto our bed, or the week I was knocked out with Covid and spent five days soaked in sweat, feeling as if the builders were drilling directly into my skull. I won’t groan about the music choices of the five builders we now share our home with (seriously: Michael Bolton?), or their habit of smoking in the shell of the kitchen. I won’t gripe about the not-so-fine-layer of dust that coats everything, from the floors to your hair. So don’t worry, I’m not going to spend this column moaning about how awful it is to live on a building site. This is why there are thousands and thousands of home “Reno” accounts on social media featuring “before” and “after” photos, but relatively few that show you what it was like “during”. Be gracious about the work you are having done, and acknowledge your privilege. You’ve chosen to live on a building site, unlike the neighbours, who have not chosen to live next to one. The one rule of living in a renovation project is: no whingeing. Oh no! You can’t complain about having building work done during a cost of living crisis, on account of the fact it makes you seem like a spoiled oligarch (I’m not sure any oligarchs live in south London, but you get what I’m trying to say). To be fair to them, our house definitely wins the Hallowe’en prize this year – no amount of elaborately carved pumpkins or giant spider webs draped over the front garden could compete with the notion of a family actually residing in the creepy skeleton of the falling-down house next door. “You’re living in there,” gasped a neighbour when I bumped into them the other day. It costs almost as much to hire a skip these days as it does to rent a two-bedroom flat, hence our decision to “live in” during our home renovation, much to the horror of, well, everyone. Actually, we started off living in three-quarters of a room – relatively spacious – but as our renovation project has gone on and more problems have been found in the walls of our Victorian terraced home, the space we can safely live in without getting rained on or knocked out by flying debris has got smaller and smaller, until eventually I expect we will be living in the skip outside, under some tarpaulin. Owners are relocating for work.For the past four months, my family and I have been living in half a room. New roof put on approximately three years ago. This unique property is not a cookie cutter home and much care and attention to detail has made this a place that you will love to come home to. Enjoy three wood burning fireplaces including on in the master bedroom! Circular driveway leads to two car side entry garage. Hand scraped teak plank floors in the living room and custom tile and wood floor in the kitchen as well as hardwood and carpet throughout. The beautiful home features double stairs, upgraded fixtures and ceiling fans, crown molding and trayed ceilings in most rooms and new carpet in most of the bedrooms. The kitchen has high-end granite counters, custom cabinets, stainless steel Kenmore Elite appliances, an induction cook top, wine bar and wine bar refrigerator. The screened pool area is perfect for outdoor dining or relaxing in the solar heated pool. Relax by the decked pond in the secluded meditation garden planted with flowers to attract hummingbirds and butterflies. This oversized lot is graced by old oaks, avocado producing trees, banana trees, gardenias, crepe myrtle, magnolia, red cedars for privacy. Sit on your handmade porch swing on the wrap around porch of this gorgeous home in a small gated, established neighborhood close to George Jenkins High school. ACCEPTING BACK UP OFFERS-Traditional five bedroom, three full, two half bath private custom pool home in desirable Lakeland Highlands, in an excellent school district.
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