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Little Man had his bedroom decorated in October half term and since then we’ve been looking for a new bed for him. A grown up bed that can grow with him. He initially wanted bunk beds for when his friends came for sleepovers or a big, tall gaming bed complete with built in desk and flashing lights.
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When we had our loft conversion, bedroom storage was a key part of the planning process and something we really had to think about. We decided early on that we would only look at ottoman beds for our new bedroom as they offer so much more extra storage space in the base compared to standard king size beds or super king size bed frames and we knew that organising that ottoman bed storage would be a priority.
It’s taken me awhile to put this post together but finally it’s done and I can share with you our finished loft conversion with you – and a little video tour at the end.
We started planning our loft conversion nearly two years ago, organised the finances for it and enlisted the services of Altitude Lofts to make our dream loft space become a reality. They have so much experience with loft conversions! And once the work started it all happened so quickly. We had a loft space that was ready to use within 6 weeks – including decorating and carpets!
When we started planning to have our loft conversion we quickly found out that having dormer loft conversions inflated the loft cost quite considerably compared to a Velux loft conversion – and having an L shaped dormer conversion with dormer windows inflated the cost even more. Home improvements are always expensive aren’t they?
From soon after we started planning a loft conversion we knew that we would need to lower our first floor ceilings in the process. It’s often the case with older properties that there isn’t enough head height in the roof space to accommodate another floor.
Two and a half weeks ago we started our loft conversion. It was meant to start back in April but Covid pushed it back and it finally started just after the children went back to school. I wrote about planning a loft conversion but I thought I should also do a little update on the progress.
I started writing about our loft conversion progress and realised I hadn’t shared what our house was like before the work started – and it’s always good to have a true before and after.
We knew quite a few years ago that one day, if we could, we would do a loft conversion on our home. This has always been our forever home, the children were born here and so it makes sense to make the house perfect for us at each stage of our life. A loft conversion made sense.
A year ago we made probably the most middle class decision we have ever made – and we got a cleaner. I had been working from home for a year and found my time pulled between the house, school and work and trying to cram everything into the hours that the children were at school just wasn’t possible. Then, when Dave changed jobs and ended up working Monday to Friday and pretty normal hours rather than the shift work we’d been used to I knew something had to give – so we got a cleaner.
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We always have a list of jobs that need doing around the house and one that we have been meaning to tick off for such a long time was replacing two old radiators in the bedrooms. When we came back from Florida it felt so cold, and like autumn had really set in, that we booked someone to fit new radiators for us immediately.