Week 50 - Kitchen & family Rooms formed ... cladding continues!

Hi folks,

Week 50, wow, where is the time going!?  We had a lot of procrastination this week trying to figure out how best to use the main living and family snug rooms, in particular, where to put the doors between the two spaces.  This has meant lots of drawings from the architect helping us consider a bunch of options ... thanks Sarah!  In the end, we needed to get the builder to put the wall frames up so we could see the space in the flesh.  That helped, and we have now decided where to put everything .. why do simple decisions always seem sooooo difficult when building a house!?!

The kitchen size and shape looks great, and the old mill lade lever in the wall looks even better now that the main wall has been pointed and roof windows framed.  Other jobs happening indoors this week included more plaster boarding, laying the first floor surfaces with tiles going down in the plant room and store ... those were a nice last minute bargain!  The monster boiler was also moved to location in the plant room in readiness for hooking up.  We also managed to get both kids to site this weekend awake for once .... what a laugh, but never again!  It was like watching the opening 5 mins of an episode of Casualty while they were running about!!

Outside the larch cladding has continued.  The west gable is nearly complete now and the south face is started ..... we think it really looks fab.

Until next week ......

Things coming together outside ... 

View back from the hot tub!?! :-)

Looking down the river

Roof lights above kitchen with old Mill lade lever
(this was used to divert water away from the Mill wheel and back into the Feugh)

Looking down the bank of roof windows

Looking into lounge at fireplace 

Looking into kitchen space

Looking side on into kitchen space

Looking into the family/TV snug room ... door in will be from hallway

Cut offs for the extension metal profile roof