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Floor Plan - Fresh pair of eyes!

3 years ago

Fresh eyes needed!

To try and keep costs down we wanted to retain as much as the original house as possible, kind of logical. However, our new ground floor layout is screaming at me to stay it's over-complicated.

The front/entrance of the house needs to be looked at again anyway.

Any thoughts welcome...

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