It's what dreams are made of and nightmares kindled: Most home owners aspire to it; some take a few tentative steps and fewer still are crazy enough to go the full hog! This blog shares some of the trials and tribulations of a major redevelopment of a 1950s home through a cataclysmic transformation which retains the best of the last Century while metamorposing the property into a design classic fit for today's living.

Monday, August 07, 2006

WEEK 21 - Another week (Delay = 5 weeks)

I've said since the beginning that, taking all the various complex elements of the project into account, we'll probably be finished by Christmas. Not that this has ever been mentioned to the contractors, as they would take this as a carte blanche for dragging it out even further. But unless we can get some half-decent resourcing, i.e. more than a couple of joiners on the job every day, it could be well into the autumn before we can wrap this up. An unbearable thought and one I sincerely hope we can avoid. At the moment, though, it's not looking particularly great.