home extension part I

It's exciting (and scary) to think that in a few (several?) months we will have a new extension to our home. Now that I'm pregnant we have sped things up a bit! We have put the plans into council, and the engineers report has been received. The go-ahead from Council will take 6-8 weeks. This is what we're proposing to do:

• Knock out three walls (one in the kitchen, and two are exterior), extending into the backyard and partly into the driveway
• In doing the above, we will create an open plan kitchen/lounge area
• New kitchen and bathrom
• Turn the current bathroom into a laundry
• Have a baby!

Our house was built around the 1920s and has retained original features such as high ceilings and floorboards. We plan to make a modern looking extension using colorbond (corrugated iron). It will look something like this except our original exterior walls are red brick. The contrast of red brick and silver/grey colorbond, I think, will look striking.

Image - colorbond.com