let's go around here
in this exciting episode well there's a couple of things we're going to be looking at
namely architects we meet the other arctic the second half of fine line architecture we have
concept plans but plans for this renovation and um maybe maybe i'll get my cabinet here in the office
this is like one hour from our house
hey kitty can i ask why you know before um before we moved down here yesterday to nelson
to buy this house i was reading about houses in general and development and architecture and all
that kind of stuff and i read this article and uh stuff i think it was i'll put the link below
and it was about how when people do land developments and they do multiple houses
it's important to consider not just how big the house is and how many bedrooms you can squeeze in
but what is the quality of living in there you know how much light is the house getting how does
it warm up how does it cool down what are the shared spaces around the house going to be like
if you're doing a big development what is like the nearby park that all the residents can use quality
of life should come into the design of houses anyway i got to the end of that article and i
saw it said nelson based architect and i was like hey jess and i are looking for a house in nelson
maybe we should reach out to them when we get down there we could end up doing some cool projects
anyway i forgot about that jess and i were busy you know moving house and moving an entire life
from one city to another and when we moved to nelson we actually got a lot of emails from people
saying hey i live in this area welcome to the area i'd love to have a beer with you and it was it was
overwhelming to be honest but it was so nice um and we reached out to a few people couldn't
reach out to everyone but one of the people that we did reach out to has been a subscriber for
a long time and he said my wife might be able to help you with architecture and his name is
raymond he was in the last episode and his wife is the co-director of fine line architecture
and she is also the person who wrote that article that i read back in november it's funny how small
the world is sometimes so needless to say we got in touch with them and matt her co-director
and magdalena are now our architects so jess the architects are coming this morning yeah
what do you think about the design of our potential renovation i haven't seen it yet well
what do you what are your expectations i'm excited is that a oh no it's the it's the steak whoops
i guess your mind's another thing isn't this plant cool my neighbor gifted it to me i have
no idea what it is though what's what the comment section is for yeah actually a lot of people knew
what the other plants were in the other video maybe people know what this is isn't it beautiful
hello
good to see you guys
so i'm very happy to have magda and matt on board and they've prepared three different
roads i guess you could say for the renovation to take and for each road they have two different
plans that are pretty much the same except minor differences and that's what we're
about to look at here and i just want to say before we do that this is all very new to me
um even though i've been renovating houses for years i've been building for 18 years
having to make these decisions around design and and where do we want a door where do we
want a window do we want this layer do we want that i'm taking it in at the same time as you um
but i'll be curious to see what you think of these three designs so that's just your existing
layout and we'll put it on top for reference so normally we don't really you know show
five or you know different options but because we are really early in the process and because
we wanted to be a bit more collaborative with you guys we thought we just come up with a few
and all of those options work but they really um they really depend on how you want to live and how
you want to use um the space we kind of um started with this idea of the galley kitchen so in this
example you have uh you keep the same entry in the front or back or however you call it i think
front for now and the same entry at the back and then you have um just a kind of a line
kitchen one thing that that you you you said when we came here the first time was that you
quite like this circular thing that's happening and so you know in this example we're actually
keeping the loop so we would remove some of that cabinetry that's here and only keep you
know have the fire area and make a you know really cool central feature out of it which
means that you have more space to have a proper kitchen with you know enough spice on both sides
the next one just removes completely the fire so removes completely that central area your kitchen
dining becomes really the heart the center of the whole house you could have um some sort of screen
that you know when you are having your coffee and someone comes they don't need to see you directly
and then um a big open space and what we quite like about this one is that you know you create
that little study nook so the office can become a third bedroom yeah it's really interesting i'm
just kind of radical quite radical i'm trying to i need to get my heat around that we are increasing
the let's say the complexity and we're completely changing things so we're keeping the central you
know fire on a fire depending on where it's going to be but what we're moving is um your bedroom
into here into that corner and what this allows us to do is to create this really nice open space
here and a little snug for the tv you know you actually have four bedrooms without losing um
space what i like about this um version is is kind of how it responds to the sun because in the late
afternoon you actually this bedroom or where the this bedroom here is actually going to get a lot
of that late afternoon sun coming in on the side and so you're sort of allowing that part of the
living space to sort of move more towards the sun so normally we'd be kind of you know focusing our
this is sort of our sun arc and so to get your living all into there is pretty cool
this goes on the side here just to make it more decorative on the end when the bench is done and
now i've got a top to cut as well and i've got to make legs that's going to be a little bit tricky
speaking of tricky three plans to choose from i think i know which plan i'm leaning toward
i'm curious about what you guys think of the three different options one thing i couldn't
help doing when i started reading those plans there was i just started building it in my
head you know as soon as i look at the layout i'm like okay we need a beam there oh we'll need like
brace bracing elements on that corner oh how am i going to get the scaffold in there will i be able
to get a higher you know i start solving all the problems automatically because that's that's what
i've been doing for years i usually get the plans when the building consent has been issued and um
the job's kind of ready to go clients have worked out all these things that i'm working on now and
i'm just like i've just got to solve the problems right but all these things aren't things that need
to be sorted out yet these are just the concept plans these drawings are in the conceptual stage
so they're not trying to show specifics and so we all we're sort of talking about is these kind of
big picture ideas yeah and trying to get your head into like the the possibilities and and what we're
hoping is that you'll be like i really like that from this bit and i like this from this and then
we can like you know like so it's a it is it's more about ideas than the physical at the moment
learn my lesson i feel like we're on safe hands with these guys i like them a lot
and i like the plans and i'm leaning towards i'm leaning towards the last plan the uh the snug
as it's called it has the obvious benefit of essentially adding another room
or at least maintaining the amount of rooms if you include that problem room which is really just an
office and i actually like where the kitchen is i like the new location of the kitchen and there's
also a chance to do more built-in seating which is great for me more projects and the snug room
the sort of living room that could be a bedroom as well we'll we can make like a ceiling height
door that's open most of the time and if someone's coming to stay with us or something we can roll
it shut so we've got their privacy now this is a way of getting rid of the cut edge it's just
a stick on sort of plastic and when you heat it up with the iron the glue melts and adheres
um yeah so my initial instinct was when we first looked at these plans was this one here because it
was quite similar to what we already the more that i think about it i'm i'm really leaning
towards this one with the snug that really appeals to me and then in summer when we have um all of
our friends oh yeah and some of them we have people over the idea of this being really bright
and airy and open and a really social space yeah i like that and very collaborative as well because
when we have had friends over everyone's cooked everyone's cooked to me and everyone's
helped and so for us the kitchen is a really fun social collaborative area
and also also a work area we like to incorporate it into a big opening
so
i'm no finish maker i am definitely a builder so i've just come up with this
idea i bought these legs from bunnings or something and i've cut plywood strips
there and this is going to be the base that holds the cabinet so we've got it
on this angle here so it's got an angle on no matter which way you look at it
so that's my plan a leg on a funny angle like that
what do you got there oh food scraps my worms
it's disgusting garlic too close how is your worm farm going well they're not dead that's good son
no it's actually going really well they're making heaps of castings good for the future
vegetable garden this looks mint scott i'm really impressed and thanks i'm not push doors okay
i need some handles nice those are the legs and i'll put these little blocks on and that's
where the screw will go into the cabinet someone commented in the last video that it's cool you're
recycling reusing materials i couldn't agree more that was a pretty ugly cabinet now you've turned
it into a nice something nice i won't win any design awards but it's all right he's very clever
actually jess i just needed a hand with the this was gonna lift it up
oh
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what could possibly go wrong
it didn't break
well there you go it's a little bit lighter out here
so you open the doors like that i think i need to get some handles put your printer on there
and then like you can lift the scanner thing at the top up i think that needs a bit of a clean
and then i just reused that shelf that was in our dining room so the holes line up with one another
i can put shelves at different heights depending on what we store in there so there's mostly reused
material these end ones are just a piece of melamine that we bought in that top it's just
a cheap oak veneer kind of thing that we bought so yeah will sit nicely in the office behind my desk
there you go here's a little bit of a paint job but uh not bad for some second-hand stuff what
do you think of the plans i'm real curious to see in the comments below what you guys think of our
site plans concept plans the next stage is to pick a plan go into more detail
and then apply for building consent in the meantime i am looking at other work
i get that question a lot but our main focus is here that was the plan all along focus on getting
this ready to renovate and then start renovating but i'll talk more about that in the future
thanks for watching this exciting episode and um see in the next one