Hello and welcome to our Jamieson family blog page! We have set up this site to allow us to record and share with friends and family our exploits as we (at long last) begin renovating the derelict water mill at Little Ennochie into what will hopefully be a fab and funky family house!! This has only taken us 3 1/2 years to get this far (and two bambinos!) .... so here's hoping this blog doesn't run for another 3 1/2 years !

As a bit of an intro, the mill is located on the outskirts of the village of Finzean, near Banchory in Aberdeenshire. The building sits on the banks of the river Feugh with great views of open fields and the hills, including Clachnaben. We have been slogging through Aberdeenshire planning and building warrants for what feels like forever, but we now have everything in place and the ball is rolling!

I will endevour to update this blog weekly with updates and photos so will see how that goes! Please keep watching and here's hoping this thing doesn't bankrupt us!

The Jamieson Family

Tuesday, 28 June 2011

Week 14 - Extension walls start to go up, and kitchen dilemma continues!

Hello,

Next edition of our delayed blog coming up! Since the underfloor heating went down last week progress has slowed slightly, despite all the wood for the extension having now arrived in the yard. We managed to get a few of the wall panels up on the east extension which, although not much, really makes the area look like a proper building now! The window in the office has a fab view of the river!! Before we can progress much more we are still waiting to source a reclaimed red brick for the mill doorway and also still trying to resolved the remaining underfloor heating questions (I've learned much more than I ever wanted to know on this topic!). This week we also tried out some of the kitchen materials from Ashley Ann in the hope of picking the worktop and doors/trims. Unfortunately that proved to be too many decisions for one week therefore we've put that one off for another day!


Walls are up .. yipee!
This is the east extension which will house the utility room, cloakroom, plant room, office and store
One of the double corner windows in the office - magic view!
Looking back towards East building ...
Trying to pick kitchen finishes ... not easy!
Repointing is underway
Wood panels for the wall are under the tarpaulin
The second underfloor manifold controlling inside the mill
Looking into the Master bedroom from ensuite

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