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January in pictures
A monthly picture diary… :: Karl’s experiments with the alchemy of wood finishes : the drawer handles go on in the kitchen : deciding on a paint colour for the inside of the kitchen cupboards : lime plaster repairs in the entrance porch : it’s cold : homemade sticky orange delight for our breakfast : repairing the entrance porch :…
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kitchen build – part 1
Mid December and in mid manic festive preparation time, we clear the ‘kitchen’ area to make way for carpenter Paul and Karl to commence the kitchen build. During recent weeks the ceiling has been painted and the walls lime washed; the antique Holophane lights hung and the air extraction ducting installed. The Christmas tree was a little in the way,…
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It’s beginning to look a lot like… Clearing the House and creating our temporary Christmas living room begins. Easier said than done when work on the kitchen also begins – the surrounding chaos has been cropped out of this shot! Image of the Week #116
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Have been enjoying this view all week while painting ceilings and walls. Not used to an outside view! Image of the week #110
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switches…
We have got to the exciting part of house building, where we can start adding little details… such as light switches. Or maybe we’ve been slogging away at this project for far too long that we get rather over excited at installing light switches! Karl spotted these switches on Ebay some years ago, and they’ve been sitting in a…
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A finished staircase
From a drawing by Karl literally on the back of an envelope… followed by more technical CAD drawings… to Craig fabricating it… followed by Natalie’s painting… the staircase has been finished off by carpenter Paul who has made and fitted the oak treads. This was not an easy job as the oak planks had to be biscuit jointed to…
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Hot water!
Our dreams of having a bath came a step closer to realisation recently with the installation of a hot water tank. Brandon and Dan of ‘Beyond the Stove’ have been putting in more pipes, dials and switches to add to the maze of existing pipework from the boiler and underfloor heating. Karl has been plaster boarding the bathroom walls,…
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Showing it as it is… 2014
In January of last year, I posted about ‘showing it as it is’ and revealing the not quite so tidy bits of the church which don’t normally make it onto the blog. It featured two full length shots looking over the pews with all our possessions stacked in a seemingly chaotic jumble. I wanted to record this as a way…
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It’s images like this which will be forgotten once the house is completed. Mistletoe adorning the lighting wires as part of our ‘pop up’ living room for Christmas. Image of the Week #67
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It’s that time of year again!
The tree is up! Our little extravagance is to get a big tree. With these high ceilings, anything smaller than 10ft looks tiny. Its is quite an undertaking to clear a space for it and getting it up, let alone decorating it. Image of the Week #65
