What a week...

Phew, what a few weeks! ....

We've been working non stop this last week; Richard has been doing crazy ammounts of driving all over the country and getting up at stupid o'clock!
I've been working with the electricians doing first fix - that was so much tougher than I'd imagined. Knowing where your furniture is going to be so you can work out the lamps, positioning beds for bedside sockets and lights switches and the whole time conforming to building regs.

I've had to map out the ceilings for spot lights working out where the light would work as task lighting or mood lighting, putting sockets and switches in the right places, thinking which way a door is opening... Phew!!
We have ended up with 45 double plug sockets! Not counted the light switches yet! - now to choose what covers? Brushed stainless? White? Oh well more research....!

So apart from electricians on site we closed the road for the big sewer connection!
The contractors came out on Tuesday and we managed to bring the village to a halt whilst a skip was being removed from another street! But that was nothing compared with Wednesday..
the contractor cut through a main electric cable in the road and cut off all the residents!! He actually blew a hole in his digger bucket and frankly is lucky to be alive.
Western Power responded very quickly and all was restored in an hour and a half. Only one irate neighbour which all things considered wasn't bad!!

We've had a bit of a find - we have a secret room! sounds nuts I know and fairly hard to explain: The plans (see photo below) show ground floor connecting to the garage via the utility room and the upstairs plan only goes as far as the lounge therefore the utility room was either going to be vaulted or a floor put in thus making us a very nice dressing room! I must say I'm delighted!! Finally I have a place for all those shoes.. :-)

Our roof has progressed rapidly and we are thrilled with how it looks. Dreadnoughts rep (the company who make the clay tiles) came out and wants to photograph and put us in their advertising!

As you can see we've had some gorgeous but bitterly cold days

And so finally and most excitingly (I know thats not a word!!)we've moved into the textile studio!!

We collected our furniture from our "temporary" storage at HB Group (friends Richard and Dinah's contract furniture company www.hbgroup.co.uk)

We had earmarked a few key pieces last December when we moved out of our previous house; namely our bed, a wardrobe, a couple of desks, a few chairs - enough to set up a little home from home!

It is however taking a while to get everything connected - we have a fully function loo LUXURY!!! A functioning washing machine and dishwasher DOUBLE LUXURY!!! but as yet no working taps or shower.. we had to run the gauntlet this morning and shower in the caravan then run back up!!

I must say Sunday morning lie in; in a proper bed was fabulous!

I even managed to make a simple chicken roast dinner amongst the chaos in my new mini oven/rotisserie!! LOL!