Good going Dale Alcock Homes, just gone through the same sort of renovation with my personal residence in North Perth. And now onto Landscaping the front and back yards using our staff to install French Potager style outdoor spaces.

Hi Sarah, hope you enjoyed your travels last night, that's something we have spent our lives doing plus living in different countries. Do look into the attic room/s they are lovely and the Velux skylights very unobtrusive, look great and if positioned correctly take care of venting any hot air, as I mentioned ours were pivoting ones and could be locked open in several positions. I much prefer these to dormer windows, you don't really notice them. The stairs were built off site and lifted into position and installed, built in. At the time we did ours a very good friend a builder did the same but just completely opened the whole ceiling space right out towards the gutters into a large bedroom play study area for his daughters, also using Velux windows. Glass ceilings, like Velux windows have been around for years, believe me I know, we're both getting older. Velux windows can be used as glass ceilings in opening and non opening configurations. I would love to see you keep the outdoor loo as well and updating the old shed into a new connecting space to the house, perhaps a glass breezeway. I will have another look at your plan again over the weekend. I love your front iron gate as well, auto sliding driveway gates work really well and would really fit with your carport. My brother in law put in a tall timber sliding gate at his last home, lovely cheers

Yeah I reckon be super careful with this one....be conscious of making changes that will impact the character and balance to the facade.......when it comes to this era and style, scaling of the fenestration is really important......below is a project that we developed a new home, but the client wanted to reference the homestead type of building of similar era to yours.....that entry door with the highlight window is an important thing to keep IMO, possibly you may need to get some further architectural assistance to ensure you don't make changes that are incongruent to your beautiful property

I am so sorry to everyone my notifications for these were going to by junk mail so I had no idea anyone else had responded! Wow, I am so grateful for all of your ideas and input! @User Thank you for all of your ideas, they will be considered and lots we had not thought about @oklouise Thank you for taking the time and putting in the effort to draw up our house. I am so sorry I did not get to answer your questions in time. The block is flat. Two small steps up to the house (it is not very high off the ground - a person would not fit under the house - a strange 1950s design?) weatherboard with hardwood floorboards throughout. The back laundry is a step down to it - it is almost like an outhouse - which then leads to another step down to outside. This will all need to be levelled. Terracotta roof tiles. I can try to get measurements of the boundaries for you. We had never considered building out that way and loved your design! I guess we stayed on the other side as that is where the kitchen / laundry are now! We have a budget of around 200K. Not sure what you have drawn up would cost! We have been busy sketching up some ideas before seeing this which I will share. We really want to be able to have a big open plan kitchen / living / deck for entertaining. That is important to us as we love having friends over for BBQs. Also really need that extra bathroom! Our drawings are super rough. But as you can see we have changed the sun room into main master - middle living ensuite / walk in robe - We even thought one side of this could be made into a study nook accessed in dining area? On the back right up to and connected to the garage the living area with open plan and large opening doors onto deck. Just figuring out best place for butlers pantry / laundry? This is the type of back we are hoping to achieve (one level) Even if I don't hear from you again thank you SO much - all have contributed to helping us finalise this and envision our plan!