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I feel guilty because I haven't written anything for quite a while...but moving home for the second time in a year is quite something... and I spent a whole WEEK in Scotland packing ready to make the BIG MOVE to Poland.

In the meantime, everything has gone on as planned...almost!!....costs have gone up on a few items... but I blame myself for that.

I decided to use a high quality ceramic roof tile, and of course the extra area to be covered meant that the amount of money spent on this was astronomic.

I decided I needed to cut some corners and save some money by looking at the upstairs accommodation more carefully. The widening of the garage and the study made a huge difference to the amount of room upstairs. The shape of the roof changed in the middle section and this meant that the four roof post supports moved as well. I created a large loft area by flooring the area between them and inserted an additional Fakro skylight, allowing natural light into that area, as well as providing an access point to examine/clean the chimney when required.

Not being a small man, I like my space, and I decided that I only wanted two bedrooms upstairs. Both bedrooms now have a balcony and two skylight windows and are really big. A new area was created at the top of the stairs - a hallway with its own large skylight situated between the two skylights in the bathroom and the bedroom. This gives the area upstairs plenty of light and also lightens up the stairs...which are not there as yet!

I did away with the en-suite bathroom and dressing-room in the front bedroom. Why?...Well I decided I wanted one large bathroom that had a stand-alone WET shower enclosure and a large bath...and by large I mean LARGE! This meant that I could keep the costs down and concentrate on designing the very large bathroom.

I still have to decide whether I'm going for 'an all-singing and dancing' corner bath or a straightforwatd 1900x90 'long' bath. In the end it will come down to what I can afford!

As for the positioning of these items in the bathroom it is an interesting exercise.....

The sloping roof intrudes quite badly into the room. This is not a problem if you're small...but in my case it means that we have to build out from the walls by at least 60cm to achieve a reasonable height. Some of you might point out that by building up by an extra two blocks I could have avoided this problem, but the original architect did a fine job in getting proportions right and I wasn't going to spoil the look of the house by doing that or getting rid of a window in the kitchen.

I wonder what the rest of you have done? I have studied all the blogs carefully and I have only seen one bathroom partially completed.....It seems to be quite an exercise to make this an attractive, yet practical space...and in my case I have 14 square metres to design sensibly.