bigreader I'm okie..thanks for caring ..just need time to readjust kind of walked out on my job..so looking for stuff to fill in my time ..I hate being bored and sitting sround fiddling my thumb been looking for courses to do and taking my camera out.. these I took yesterday in Warrandyte..

Does your daughter wash the dishes, or use a dishwasher? If she uses a dish washer, where is that positioned? If you are moving the sink are you moving the dishwasher? If the home is almost at lock up stage, then this change will be expensive. If using a dishwasher more often, I would really have to look at my budget to see whether the extra cost, and time delay really worth it.

Just at a quick glance , the best / easiest / cheapest would be turn Bed 3 into the Kitchen ( if the kitchen stays where it is , theres almost no way to avoid it having low light/no view ) -- the plumbing etc could be moved over quite easily . I'd then do 2 new bedrooms and an en-suite ( and probably move the other WC too , or add a powder room ) , stepped down on a concrete pad 'out the back' . This keeps the roof way easier , not too much plumbing to move , not overcapitalising everything . The nest step up from that would be to demolish the laundry , and do a full width addition , I suspect stepped down and on a slab would be easier and cheaper than having to extend the timber floor , and accomodating the roof ( you would probably have to do full roof trusses , and possibly even take the rear half of you existing roof off and modify those trusses ) to get enough slope . Of course there are other options , such as making Bed 3 your master and en-suite , and moving most or all your living , kitchen , laundry to the rear ( North ) and get more indoor/outdoor flow , but you'd be double the cost in ballpark figures , as you'd have a lot more plumbing and gas to move , although most of the 'new' stuff would be easy to install -- either under the slab , or under the floor if you retain a timber floor and piles ( stumps ) -- but it still costs !

Almost there ! The previous owners at my new place have moved out ( well 98% ) as of last weekend , and I have the keys . At some stage I'll get the locks changed -- you just never know ! I've taken one large covered trailer load there , enough stuff for basic camping there haha . Right now , most of that stuff is in the garage . There's a self contained furnished flat above the garage too , so I could live there . As I have 6 weeks to move , I very cleverly thought I would clean everything ( I have a Bissell carpet cleaner and 2 5 litre containers of the fluid , as well as a steam mop , and all the usual brushes , brooms , mops , buckets , rolls of cloth , etc , etc . ) . Great idea ! I've started in the living area and master bedroom -- I was initially going to touch up the skirting boards and door frames etc , but even with a small artists brush and a 25mm paint brush , and white paint and masking tape and lots of paper , the white colours look a bit different . Enough to annoy me haha . So I've been down on my knees most of Sunday , filling any knicks in the wood with a wood filler . Next will be sanding , then painting . Dining , kitchen , family , lounge , foyer and master bedroom first . And that won't even be 1/3rd of the place done ! I think I'll need the 6 weeks haha -- its a busy time in several of my entertainment and sound businesses , plus lots of motorsport , including one trip to Christchurch which is 24 hours each way plus 3 or 4 days there , try and get a few days at the beach at some stage too , paint a commercial building , and the small added issue of a relatively new girlfriend too haha . A few late nights and/or 3am starts me thinks !