Initial Design Ideas

Lego is wonderful stuff. We started by just having basic room shapes for the rooms we wanted and then putting them together in different ways to consider all sorts of ideas.  We knew from our initial planning discussions that there were tight rules on distances from neighbours windows that needed to be met. This meant the obvious position for the house part way down the plot would not work. We needed to be either on the existing foot print or a long way down.

Some fairly weird and wacky shapes were considered but we kept coming back to an H or A house. Two main blocks opening out at the back of the plot with a joining atrium with lots of glass. We curently have a hall, dining room and conservatory all of which are not used as much as we would like, particularly the conservatory is hardly used except for the summer. The idea was to combine them into one big space that could be used all year round.

The other issue is the sun light, cuurently we have the afternoon and evening sun on the back of the house and garden, 78 Stafford Road is the other way round so we did not know how it would work.

So we built a lego model to scale and put it outside in the sun and photographed it during the day, I think this was one of the earlier times the children told us we were odd/sad.