Windows and High Winds!

Another couple of weeks has passed with such changeable weather - but on the whole we have been lucky. I think Paul has been wet through, nearly blown away and frozen solid all at once!

We have had an exciting two weeks as the windows have been fitted! Here is the first one to arrive. Its quite difficult to see in the photos as they are grey but once the scaffold comes down next week we'll get a much better view inside and out and we'll be able to open the doors. The funniest thing is the dogs have been used to running through the open space and suddenly they can't get anywhere!

 

We have all the first fix electrics in now and thought I'd give you a peek at our dining lights! They will be above the dining table, evenly spaced of course! They are Tom Dixon Beat Lights. I think they will look very cool - they have a gold/copper hammered finish on the inside and are hi gloss white on the outside.

All the velux windows are in and are producing a lovely light into the hallway..

One of the things I've noticed here is the beautiful sky - I'm not sure why as we did have sky at our last house!!! All my photographs seem to show amazing colour and cloud formation. Followed by fabulous sunsets

Across the Midlands on Thursday we had gale force winds up to 60 mile per hour! Paul decided it may be an idea to place a tarpaulin across the gable end to prevent any accidents :-/

The gable end window has been damaged and we are waiting to hear when this will go in? It's frustrating but it happens; this is where weeks can be lost and the build is set behind schedule...


The next stage in progress is the plaster boarding of the internal walls. It's finally looking like we have actual rooms and it's all coming together. I can finally visualise where furniture will be now. Lots of lovely roof angles and spaces..

The front door: We are having a painted front door to match the colour of the windows, I found this one (left) on a fabulous web site called Urban Front but they are in excess of £6000! Our good friends Richard and Dinah have a contact and we have had a similar one made 80% cheaper! (It doesn't have any side windows yet and so we'll have to build this in) I'm now looking for big chunky handles and a long door handle like the pic..

 
We had a real giggle last weekend at the local village quiz. We've made some nice friends here and have joined the choir (!!) and we are off to lots of organised do's over the next few weeks.

We invited our friends Melanie & David over and ended up coming last!! Obviously this was a tactical manoeuvre NOT!!! It was a bit of a surprise to find I'd been mentioned in the local newsletter ;-@. I like that we were excused for being in a tent - would we have done any better if we were in a caravan LOL! We have to make sure we do much better next year....

And so I'll sign off again and hope to blog about more exciting progress soon. One of the most commonly asked questions now is "when will you be in?" or "will you be in for Christmas?" The decision to not try and be in for Christmas was the best one we've made! The pressure just for a couple of days was too much and we now feel much happier working at an achievable pace with a plan to finish or at least be in by the end of January ... 

Ciao for now...Wendi xx