Author: K

• OMG finally almost finished the red room ???

  Yes, apparently ‘red room’ has stuck for now. It’s been too long! We’ve spent months basically rebuilding this room, from repointing the stone sections and plastering the walls, to repairing the joists and opening the hearth. It seems so close to the decorating/fun bit but there’s still a bunch to do. The biggest being to…

• Bits and pieces

  We haven’t made a post in a while because we haven’t done one big thing to require one. Just a few things that still felt like progress. Especially getting a skip to clear out some more rubbish! This was full of bin bags with rubbish in, it was gross.. you can breathe easier walking around…

• Old bathroom

  Ok Tim just pointed out that I didn’t post pics of the old bathroom for comparison. Fair enough, I was just too excited about how it looks now I didn’t even think about it.

• Upstairs bathrooooooom!

  FINALLY after almost exactly a year being in this house I am able to pee during the night without waddling and tripping all over the house. It’s right there next to my room. Of course there are a lot of other reasons I’m excited about having this room done, that’s just the top one. The…

• Owen’s room!

  Finally have a room finished! It makes sense I guess that Owen’s room was the first one to be done. It’s tiny, so it was a quick way to feel some accomplishment. I say quick but here’s a reminder of how it started.. this photo was taken exactly a year ago.. Owen wanted a bright…

• Bits and pieces update

  We went to Center Parcs with Grandma and Grandpa mid April. Twas a nice break from the smell of dusty things and the daily dip in a hot tub has kept me going since. We came back with some souvenirs through the paint your own pottery studio. The roofing company came throughout April to remove…

• Red room renovation report

  I really wanted to have photos of lovely, clean, neat exposed stone walls to share. I went to sleep last night thinking I only had the middle section of the last window to complete. Nearly done the hard parts! Let’s go! I had a gap along the bottom of the wall, same as the other…

• Red room wall so far

  I wanted to plaster the back wall of the red room this week. Well, I was going to do the joists on the other side of the room but ugh no I don’t wanna. Holding heavy stuff slightly above my head for interminable lengths of time isn’t very appealing right now. Decided to wait until…

• Planted a few trees today

  We planted half of the 6 bundles of hawthorn – 163 individual saplings planted today. All along the fence at the bottom of the field, leaving a few gaps for bigger trees like rowan and birch. We assumed we’d have some sent to us, but it was only hawthorn in the hedgerow bundles. They do…

• Supporting the joists

  I spent the morning scraping out the crumbly mortar in the rocks between the joist ends in the red room. Rocks came out with it, and I was feeling a bit more grim with each one (it’s ok this is only a load bearing wall that I’m taking literal boulders out of). A couple of…