Big changes at the house today. Decking area taking shape. It was good to feel how we will be able to walk straight out of the bifold doors into the garden.
Justine has tiled one bathroom & is starting the large open plan area.
Three good things:
1. Bedroom carpets chosen.
2. Harry met up with his bowling pals for a teacake & coffee.
3. I have been told by number 2 son in NZ to call the bungalow a house….it’s a word not used in NZ as their house which are mostly single storey living are houses. Bungalow is not my favourite word so I might oblige!
@julzmaioro It will curve round along the existing shape & have a couple of shallow steps onto the lawn but at the shed end will slope down like a ramp Julz.
Looking great Pat, and after seeing it last week, and meeting Justine, I enjoyed
seeing the difference!!
Glad Harry getting out a bit too.
And did laugh at the house/bungalow chat!!
"A bungalow is a small, square, single-story home with front porch. The single floor is raised up with front steps leading up to the porch" We don't use bungalow as has been said but we do have farmhouses and homesteads, villas and baches and cribs!
We don't use the word bungalow in Australia either. We live in a single storey house. I think a bungalow here would probably mean a tiny granny flat single storey building at the back of your house.
If you have two single storey houses attached you would call them a semi-detached house in the UK if I remember rightly but here two houses attached here are called a duplex. More than two houses attached are called town houses and I think they are terraced houses in the UK. Different countries different names aren't they.
I love the decking around your 'single storey house'
@onewing Thanks Babs, great info on the different names, Son says bungalow is a sort of joke word in NZ so he cringes every time I say it! I must say I hate it too….will try & remember not to use it. It’s hard not to here because when you’re explaining where your house is if I said it’s the single story dwelling on the left people would look at me strangely…it’s all what we are used to I suppose. I must remember to say house!!
@maggiemae Any of those words would be nicer than bungalow Maggie….ours looks single storey but inside in the living area the ceiling is very high so confusing! You are single storey, what do you call yours…a house Ant says!
Takes me back a couple of years when we were having major works on our place. I hate having workmen in the house, so we rented somewhere else for 6 months and let the builders get on with it. That's going to be great when it's finished
It has come leaps and bounds! This will be a wonderful deck! Your construction techniques are so different! We get frost down to 48 inches below grade in deep winter, so we have to have concrete footings that go down that deep so things don’t heave and shift. Such a difference!
@happypat oh dear! The Covid takes a while to cast off even in 24 year olds who haven’t just had major surgery so I’m sure Harry will get his mowjo back!
seeing the difference!!
Glad Harry getting out a bit too.
And did laugh at the house/bungalow chat!!
If you have two single storey houses attached you would call them a semi-detached house in the UK if I remember rightly but here two houses attached here are called a duplex. More than two houses attached are called town houses and I think they are terraced houses in the UK. Different countries different names aren't they.
I love the decking around your 'single storey house'