Category: House

At the risk of boring everyone not much is happening except for work on the landing. Although work was interupted by having to go and chop firewood (chainsaw playtime….) and … Read More

Another day another new wall. The landing continues to take shape after the construction of the wall and door (to what will be the master bedroom) under the A-frame.   … Read More

So another day and some progress although the morning was taken up with a late start and then off to the builders merchants for more materials (we also stopped to … Read More

Today we started framing out the landing, which is really more of a room than a landing! It will house the study complete with bookshelves and desk. It will also … Read More

What was bedroom 2 downstairs has now been changed into a dining room (and we entertained our dutch neighbours last night), the plan is to knock the wall down and … Read More

Todays jobs included finishing installing the new Tableau and making it look neat and tidy (unlike how we left it yesterday!):

Fitted a new (to us) type of blind to the last 2 velux windows without blinds. This type of blind has both a light reduction blind and a blackout element. … Read More

Three hours before dark the decision was made to install the new electicty board or ‘Tableau’. As the light faded the work was nearly finished, but notfar enough so for … Read More

The previous owners had allowed ivy to grow over much of three sides of the house, while this looked lovely it was slowly getting behind the render and loosening it … Read More

Just to prove that I did finish the third hatch here is the proof! Am geting pretty good with the angle grinder to cut the blocks: The other two hatches … Read More