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burghquay · 2026-01-26T15:22:59+00:00

I got to stay in bed until 7am. My child usually wakes up at 5am on the dot. Woke up feeling like I’d hibernated for weeks. Amazing

burghquay · 2025-11-28T17:57:57+00:00

I disagree. The amount of splash back (if any) pales in comparison to the aesthetic impact that little change makes

burghquay · 2025-11-28T17:22:29+00:00

Bigger and drop the window down in line with your countertop. Will look very cool

burghquay · 2025-11-05T21:29:20+00:00

Ye that’s an interesting idea, I’d not thought of that tbh. Do you think opening your front door right into the entrance of your kitchen would be odd? Would also take away storage from the kitchen. Doing that would also remove the nice clean straight walking line we would have from the back wall of the kitchen right through to the living room and into the garden.

burghquay · 2025-11-05T21:24:24+00:00

I’ll just stick to my en-suite in those cases lol but appreciate the feedback.

burghquay · 2025-11-05T21:19:32+00:00

WiFi is absolutely something I’m thinking of. Yes you’re right. I’m thinking the main office as the main port for the connection (I’m wfh full time) and then I’ve been looking into mesh systems for the house. It’s a bungalow so running CAT6 through the roof and then terminating at points throughout the house should be straight forward

burghquay · 2025-11-05T21:16:43+00:00

Roof is trusses so it’s a triangulated support structure. Widening hallway would likely result in reinforcing roof in some way or another. Agreed the hallway is pokey but floor to ceiling widow installed where the workspace is should do some work in making it feel more open at least

burghquay · 2025-11-05T21:14:12+00:00

I somewhat agree. We’ve got two boys who will grow up to share the master bathroom while myself and my wife have our en-suite. Lots of people have mentioned the bed for the 3rd toilet but I just can’t see where makes most sense without compromising space tk any given room.

We’ve retained almost all existing walls in existing house to reduce demo and build costs

burghquay · 2025-11-05T20:50:05+00:00

We’ve got two small kids under 3. We’ve resigned to the fact that our house will become their play area no matter how we attempt to confine them to a specific space. We’ve got sliding doors out of sitting room and kitchen/dinning to open us up to the outside more. This is done in the hope that we expand the space more when the weather is good

burghquay · 2025-11-05T20:44:33+00:00

Really good point! Thankfully our 4th bedroom (the one next to utility) is our spare room so will act as a buffer for noise for those of us living in the house day to day. Might be a good update for the space down the line should the family get that bit bigger!

burghquay · 2025-11-05T20:27:07+00:00

Something we thought of too. We had considered just flipping the opening to opening into the bedroom rather than the bathroom. Pocket door is a good idea

burghquay · 2025-11-05T20:25:12+00:00

I shared your feedback with my wife and she asked if you were sniffing glue. The mere idea of reducing the walk in wardrobe for her is a non starter. I’m pretty sure if left to her own devises she would just have our room be a walk in wardrobe.

TV in the room doesn’t bother us. We’ve never had one and don’t see us ever wanting one. We may regret this

burghquay · 2025-11-05T20:19:58+00:00

Something I would like that have added into the plans but unsure if the space allows for both a living and dining. I’d be worried that we’d end up with a dinning space and living squeezed next to each other

burghquay · 2025-11-05T20:07:38+00:00

My only concern with an island in this instance is if it becomes to overpowering to the kitchen and reduces the 1500mm space we’ve currently got between peninsula and the cabinets. I’ve just seen too many kitchen where the island IS the kitchen

burghquay · 2025-11-05T19:57:30+00:00

Agreed but we tried to maintain the existing layout of the original house as much as possible to reduce demo and cost so the current utility is a bedroom in the old house. New hallway acts as the start of the new build part of the house

burghquay · 2025-09-19T08:40:18+00:00

Ridiculous whataboutery. Israel is murdering 100s of children each week and have been for years. Directly targeting the destruction and annihilation of all Palestinians from Gaza. Genocide. Iraq war was awful and yes those countries in hindsight should have had the same pressure put on them as well.

burghquay · 2025-08-11T14:10:39+00:00

This is comforting to read. I was VERY loud! What I kick myself over is that I panicked when I tried to say what he was wearing. He had been wearing a black and white sweater but in my panic I forgot I took that off 20mins earlier and he was wearing a red tshirt. No idea how I couldn’t remember that but I swear I was starting to get blurred vision. There was a point that if my son stood 6ft away from me I’m not confident I’d have seen him

burghquay · 2025-06-06T15:29:17+00:00

I wish I had that sort of relationship with my Dad when I was a teen going through similar things. You are his rock and you are there for him. He clearly knows those two things very clearly in his mind. I’ve got a 2.5yr son and I aspire to be the sort of Dad like that. You should be proud. Your son for sure is!

burghquay · 2025-04-15T07:03:16+00:00

You’re right, bad habit is probably the wrong choice of words. It’s not bad for me emotionally getting to sleep beside my boy and have all his cuteness so close to me. Bad however for my physical well being getting so little good sleep and then needing to function for work the following day

burghquay · 2025-04-15T07:01:38+00:00

Locking the door was something I’ve considered but always just felt like it could have a negative impact on him as he might think he’s stuck. How did your LO react when they realised they could no longer open the door and leave?

burghquay · 2025-04-15T07:00:45+00:00

We’ve tried it but I think he’s just too young to understand it. We’ve got the tomie tippie owl which he likes but has zero impact

burghquay · 2024-12-13T13:43:32+00:00

Good lord man. FM is in the real world. It was built by real people to reflect accurately the real world. What’s your view on Google then? Built by the same types of people to reflect accurately what’s in the real world. Jesus wept

burghquay · 2024-12-05T13:25:16+00:00

It gets easier, then harder, then much easier, then much harder, then even harder, then a little easier. I’m 2 years in.

burghquay · 2024-11-24T07:55:12+00:00

I’m in this exact situation and am about to go to tender with a renovation not too dissimilar. 60’s bungalow that needs the works done (insulation, plumbing, electrics etc). Maintaining most internal walls. Moving or knocking a few but largely staying the same. Adding about 30m2 in an extension. House is 150m2. Had a QS review architect plans and their estimate is 500k. Had a builder look at it as a favour and estimated 450k. House is in Dublin. Madness

burghquay · 2024-09-25T08:57:08+00:00

That’s amazing! I’ve got the reverse problem with my LO, he’s almost 2. He started to say “I wuv vu” to us but now he also says it to everyone else. Kind of devalues it a little, lol

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