We commissioned a few pieces from an insanely talented craftsman near the NI border and honestly, we’re amazed at how gorgeous and solid the furniture is. Made the 12hr trip to go get them totally worth it! ?
Our kitchen vision is slowly but surely coming together – if only we could finish the bloody wiring! ?
Haven’t touched the landing area since we put the walls up because we wanted to focus on “necessary” things, not decorating. But I finally got fed up with how dingy it is up there and wanted to brighten it up. Only with a primer until we decide what colours we want, but white is still nicer than this:
You can just see it in the above photo, but the joints here are messy: the boards are roughly cut and it was difficult to cover up. It’ll be visible after painting.. trying not to care!
The little black shapes here are butterflies! I’ve noticed a few throughout the house but hadn’t spotted these right at the top of the stairwell.
They hibernate over winter in houses and leave in the spring. I’m worried about a couple in the living room that seemed to settle very early – early July I think it was. I do hope they wake up at a good time.
I don’t want to move them unless absolutely necessary, even though I wondered if the paint smell would affect them. I hoped for the best and painted around them.
Yeh, wonky joints at the top! The rest of them are fine *breathe*
Will cover the edges up and around doors at a later time. But for now, it’s less dingy at least ??
There was this awful shelf in the corner that has simply been a pain to manoeuvre around (mainly due to our insistence on keeping our too-big-for-this-tiny-space dining table). I had taken a halfhearted stab at ripping it out before we moved in but the thing was solidly built into the wall and floor.
We have a new dining bench coming soon so it was finally time to rip the sucker out and get on with flooring and plastering the dining room. Let’s just not pay too much attention to the mold inside the ceiling tiles. ??
We’ve outgrown our tiny compost barrel so are temporarily (or probably semi-permanently) using some of the old sheep stalls as a new multi-stage compost pile. But there’s this lovely young ash tree growing right up out of the concrete!
A bit of Googling revealed that ash trees grow to 35m and live for hundreds of years soooo.. best to move that! This is going to take some serious chiseling to get the roots out! ??
The boys noticed this tiny little guy struggling by the side of the road and we just had to take him in… We had no idea what he was or how to care for him but a bit of Googling and some calls around to some wildlife vets and rescue people and we discovered he was an abandoned little rabbit! (I thought he was a squirrel! ?) He was so brand new he still had a bloody bit at his umbilical cord ?
We nursed him back to health on goat milk and drove him to the city the next morning, to be checked by a vet and rehomed by a volunteer wildlife nurse. She’s been sending us a few updates since (picture at bottom of the post). We all fell in love with him during his short stay with us- we sure do miss him! ?
His fur is in and his eyes are now almost open! ?
We’ve been living with the cabinet open as our hot water tank wouldn’t allow for a drawer so she dismantled it, bought a hinge cutter drill bit and some hinges and voila! ?
It’s been awhile since we’ve posted! But we’ve been hard at work on the house and around the farm! ???????
I popped up into the attic to clear out some of the rubbish left behind and discovered that our hot water tank was uncovered, and most of the attic was devoid of insulation of any kind. ?
So I popped round to the old stone house which had loads of new insulation in bags, presumably for some DIY project that never came to fruition. Some of it was compromised but plenty was still usable and winter is coming so stuffing the loft is a high priority.
Managed to fill about 3/4 of the attic base before I ran out of steam.. will have to sort out the rest and do the eaves another day, but we’ll probably call in the pros for that as we might get a grant. ??
And at least we can rest easy knowing our hot water doesn’t have anything gross floating around in it now. ??
We had originally tried to fit tiny bits of tile around the outlets only to quickly realize that that’s a terrible idea… So we picked up a time cutter Dremel bit and cut some holes out of whole tiles which will end up with a much cleaner finish.
Now we just need to get the right length socket screws and install the tiles and grout! ??
Finished my workday today to the surprise that K had grouted the wall as it is so far.. honestly can’t believe how great it looks ???
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