And so our plans head off to Kerry County Council

Wednesday 13^th September is an important day in the life of Carrigeen. 

It is the day we lodge our renovation plans with Kerry County Council. Yes, that’s right, we have put ourselves at the mercy of a planner in West Kerry. We’ll know in about 3 months where her thoughts are about our plans.

As they say on TV programmes, it’s all been a bit of a journey. We began, before Christmas, thinking about a few odd jobs that needed to be done. A little bit of this, a little bit of that, but when we (eventually) got the quotes for those “small jobs” and picked ourselves up off the floor we thought, “ah sure we might as well go for the full job” and build ourselves a mini Knoll.

Back in February we met with a couple of architects, talked through our plans and decided to work with David Moriarty.  We met again at Easter to begin the process of the design and here we are five months later with a design we love and think is going to be fantastic.

What have we planned you might ask? 

For those of you who have been will know the best views  are from the upstairs, albeit mostly bending down under the eves. We've decided to switch the house around and move our living room upstairs together with the kitchen and our bedroom. Downstairs will be guest bedrooms, utility room, bathroom, the control room and storage. 

This is the floor plan with the ground floor on the left and upstairs on the right. The front entrance is at the top left corner of the house and you'll enter straight into a large hallway. You'll see two large bedrooms which will be yours if you visit (again) a study, bathroom and other rooms.

The right hand plan is upstairs and you'll see a large living room like we have now, a kitchen off that, our bedroom further on down and stop the clocks, a terrace. We are wondering if we'll get a chance to seat out on that terrace more than 10 times a year, without a fleece.😄

This is a virtual 3D model of the house which gives you a sense of what we are asking for. It will be interesting to see if this lights the fire in a good or bad with the planner in West Kerry.

Potentially an exciting time.

We'll keep you posted on developments and no doubt the ups and downs of the planning process.

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