November's Update

Lots has happened up the road at the cottage (this names seems a little inappropriate at the moment!)

The outside drying area is under construction at the moment. It's now up to wall plate level ready for the floor joists.  the 3 youngest members of the family have already moved up to witness protection in the new house. Meadow is in camouflage in this picture! This is the playroom door.

This is just to the left of the playroom door, this is the lock up for the rubbish etc. It will also hold the water tanks on top of it.

We have inside partition walls. This is the view as you walk up the stairs and look down the hall to the bathroom.

 This is standing at the top of the stairs and looking right into the guest room and the landing.

At the top of the stairs this is the first bedroom on the left. The insulation is all lambswool and feels lovely.

The laundry room

  

The second bedroom (beside the bathroom)

The much debated bathroom, we eventually have a final decision made on the layout and have the sanitary ware bought. Got a great deal at xchange auction house in sandyford.

Hard to see this but this is the ensuite in the master bedroom

Easier to make out here. The door into the shower is the one on an angle and there will be a half wall between the shower and the toilet and sink. The door into the toilet and sink is at the far end beside the windows.

The walk in wardrobe

This is upstairs a bit further. We got a stairs from someone who was throwing it out and it goes up the attic which is partitioned a bit and the room you can see here straight ahead will be an office space. The part you can barely just to the left of the wall is for storage.

This is the opposite side, it will have the heat recovery ventilation system and possibly a snooker table. Through the partitions is the sleeping platform in the girls' bedroom.

This is looking down the two stairs 

The un-apltly named cat, snow white, 1 guess who named her. 

Autumn Update

Oh dear! I knew it had been a while since I had updated this blog but hadn't realised it was over 3 months - oops! sorry V.

Well a lot has happen since June, the outside is finished and the partitions have started inside. The caravan has gone and we have a fantastic new play/treehouse. Let me show you loads of photos to illustrate.

The scaffolding came down on the Friday we left for holidays in July. It looks like a house!

This is the front door and porch

The other side of the house: the good sitting room and the spare room are the two square box windows and then the long window/door with 3 panes is the living/dining area. Above that is our bedroom balconey.

This caravan was on site when we got it, it is a little worse for the wear and really dirty but in fairly good nick. The kids were playing in it when we were up on site and had some of their toys there. But a friend of ours decided he could make better use of it than us and we got a garden shed off a friend of mine that was upgrading.

This space is where the treehouse is now.

We used the slide from our old climbing frame that we got from jumbletown years ago and needed a new home in hammond lane this year.

The steps up onto the platform.

The first partition! It is the wall between the first bedroom at the top of the stairs and the laundry room. We have gorgeous sheep's wool insulation for the walls, it is better sound proofing and Mark got a good price in work for it. It feels so nice!

That's it for now, will go take a lot more pictures soon and update again (hopefully before 3 months!)

Lots of little jobs happening up on the site these days and one big job just started - the plasterer has arrived!

Tea break time

The recycling centre

Looking out from the hall to outside

The lovely surround at the patio door 

The stone is all finished and we are so thrilled with it, fabulous looking. one of the kids christened the stone masons the stoners and they were there for 5 weeks. 

A white bell

 mushrooms!

Our only window sill and it is granite

 Mark silicon-ing the gaps in the flashing

The plasterer has done the edges and filled in gaps , hopefully the base coat will go on tomorrow

windows

 Very exciting last Thursday our giant patio door arrived and was fitted. 

Looking out from the dining area.

Open a different way!

The downstairs corner window almost ready. 

The upstairs corner window with the flashings.

The stone finished up to the curvy bit.

creeping its way up the other walls

We have been working on the house now for a good few months but we have also been working on our family - this is the newest addition :)

I haven't done an update on this in a month - kept forgetting to bring the camera with me when I was going up to the site. So here is a very picture heavy post .....

This is the hole for our recycling, it is in the pantry and you won't see out of it like a window. It will all be covered in. 

We have one sliding door. the windows all arrived with the wrong window sills on them and had to go back to the factory, they should be coming back this week. This was the only one that could be fitted. It's in the playroom.

 

And from the outside!

Some of the daffodils I planted last Autumn.

We have stone! The stone masons arrived at the beginning of last week and they are this far along now.

The bottom of the window here is beside the front door and goes the whole way up to the roof.

This is our "curvy bit." Jonathan did a lot of the steel work on this with Mark and it is ready now for the zinc covering. The front door will be under the slope to the right of the red post you can see.

This is downstairs in the sitting room, the window seat is finished. Mark is working on the top of this window,  getting it ready to order the glass for them.

At the top of the stairs this is what you will see (well it will be finished!) you can see the wiring for the down lights poking out here.

This is out of the spare bedroom window, you can see the deep window all around the bottom, it will be a desk.

We also have a poured bit of concrete to support the chimney, this is one block of the chimney.

Turning your head to one side here! These are the two corner windows from the outside.

we also have a door for the laundry room, it will be fitted after some more fibre glassing is done.

And our bedroom sliding door, also waiting for more fibre glassing.

A lot done even in the last month and more big changes in the next week or two with windows and plastering coming up.