Ibiza Grand Designs

Today's the day the builders moved into our house. No, we're not doing B&B, we're having a bit of work done - creating an urban oasis of rural chic - to be precise. In other words, we're knocking a wall down and having it built somewhere else to give us a whopping 38 square metres of underground loft style living space.

Today already, we've been visited by a kitchen fitter, plumber, electrician and bricklayer/tiler who is as I type knocking lumps out of the house with a bloody big sledge hammer.

Just before they arrived, our apartment lounge looked like this,

now it looks like this and our storeroom looked like this What can't be seen is the metric ton of tiles and associated material that I unloaded by hand last week (even with my bad knees!). And now it looks like this