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, 11 October 2011

Week 29 - Staircase - oh, suits you sir!

Hi folks,

WOW ... we have a staircase .... well part of one at least!  A small thing in the grand scheme of things but an amazing transformation inside the Mill as no longer have to clamber up stepladders to the first floor and it almost looks like a house now.  Abbey thinks they are the coolest thing ever and has yet to stop talking about them or wanting to show people!!  This week has also seen Booth's make a start to the wiring for audio, data and TV throughout the house.  Plan is to wire most of the rooms for ceiling speakers and data/TV, but not all will be connected initially, just the rooms used most will get connected now.  Here's hoping we can start the electrics next week and pick up pace on the schedule now!

Later ....

Staircase! ... solid plaster balustrade to be added later
Bedroom 3 - one of the kids bedrooms
Bedroom 2 - another one of the kids bedrooms!
Upstairs family bathroom will be to the right hand side of this picture
Looking down from 1st floor landing - this will be left full height with granite exposed 
Carnage of lots and lots of data cables! .. CAT5e and CAT6 being used
Cable boxes being used
A view from riverside looking back at the soon to be glazed link / hall
(note: block work has now been smooth rendered)

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