First Steps: planning

We’ve lived in this little house for more than 5 years and spent quite a bit of time thinking about how what we’d like to do with it. It’s a typical Australian 1950s beach house (it was moved to its current location from Sawtell, near Coffs Harbour, in 2000). At present the house has four main rooms (kitchen, lounge and two bedrooms) plus a bathroom/laundry on one end and a sewing/spare room on the other (see the plan of the house below).

(pic coming soon)

In 2006 we did some rough sketches of what we’d like to do. Our main priorities were

• opening up the living area
• having at least three bedrooms (so the girls can have their own space)
• a spare room for visitors and/or as a study
• a largish deck to the north, outside the kitchen and dining areas
• passive solar design