Inside and out

Insulation in end bedroom - plus the beginnings of an en suite and the start of the carport - roof trusses arrived today.......

Michael visit from Ohio

Lovely to see Michael for the weekend - over on business.  Come back soon! x

Sunset beauty

We are really going to get some stunning sunsets as we face west........

Beginnings of a carport

We love the garden!

Garden completed - bar 3 trees!

 This is my Westmorland slate with Wordsworth poem around - moved from Ewerby

Getting warmer!

 

There are still some barn like shutter doors to go on either side of the doors and others to be made for kitchen entrance

Gravel delivered!

 Gravel ready to spread.  Next Monday the planting starts which is very exciting.  I have a full list of all the plants and they are going to transform the garden so stand by to be amazed!

More windows!

First windows (nearly) in

 This is NOT an opener!! We didn't want one of those Juliette balconies so leaves a good view to the garden from the library/fourth bedroom

Gorgeous topsoil for the garden

Windows safely transported!

Windows arrive!

The weather was miserable and the mud was thick and it was as scary as it could have been!

Starting to insulate

All outside walls must be insulated - the building inspector's instructions......so here are the first sheets going in....We will keep as much of the stone on the inside walls as we can.  The insulation will obviously help with the heating (which will be underfloor from the ground source).

Moove In or Moove on!

Panoramic!!

Noreen and friends come to inspect!

Misty Morning

Almost There!

In the garden anyway!!

Moving ahead now!

Got a tooth problem Anth?

Quick pan round!

Rubbish video with really annoying vehicle backing and bleeping.  Will take a better one when no one is there at the weekend!

Nearly a garden!

Watch the garden progess

If you go to www.aptstudios.co.uk and look under "News" in April, August and September you will be able to see the garden progress and there is a good plan on there too of the finished design.  More photos tomorrow as I haven't been up there since Thursday last......

Thanks to Ully for these early photos

You soon forget how it used to look!!!

Look how far we have come!

Bibby on another windy day!

Bibby always seems to bring the windy weather with her!  Felt a bit wintry up there today as well.  We had lunch in the Hare and Hounds and caught up with the family news which was fun.

Builders' Fashion Page!

Malc sporting shorts and woolly socks!!  You would have thought they would have learned by now that the temperature at the barns is always colder than anywhere else in the county....

and Dell - with clothes on this time!!

Roofwork nearly completed

Ol, Zaira and the stonework

Ol and Zaira were with us for the weekend - lots of prediction whist and hedgehog saving!  If you look at the wall behind them (sorry O and Z!!) you can see three stages of stonework;  the original on the right and above the door;  the mortar removed on the top left and the finished effect bottom left....

Garden progress

This is the stone area outside the study/bedroom - the room with the arched window.  The blue tiles have been lying around at Ewerby ever since we have lived there - 10 years now - so it is good to see them being used.  The area outside the kitchen will be similar to this.