Foundations of the New En-suite

The second bedroom is about as far away as possible from our one bathroom. Anyone taken short in the night has to find their way in the dark across the lounge, through the dining room, across the kitchen, past the utility room and along a corridor.

So an en-suite bathroom in the second bedroom is a priority. But the bedroom, with its sloping roof giving it a shape like a triangular slab of cheese, is a challenge. It was probably a cowshed attached to the main house with steps down to it from what's now the lounge. The end nearest the lounge soars up to a colombage wall. Yet this is the end where the en-suite needs to go.



To build a small box for the en-suite in the tallest corner seemed grotesque. This was the skill of our architect - to raise the box of the en-suite so it was on a level with the lounge entrance and put cupboards underneath into the bedroom. To give symmetry, a matching box is to be built the other side of the steps from the lounge for a walk-in wardrobe. The foundations for these two boxes are already down.