Building Progress ~ February 2008, week 4
We have walls.
Well at least partially, the partition walls have started to be built in the kitchen, to form a utility / services room & a small WC and upstairs, to form the second bedroom, main bathroom and ensuite / dressing area (if you can call a meter-&-a-half corridor a dressing area).
This dressing area is an example of how you need to remain flexible when planning the internal layout of a conversion. This area started out as a strange 1 meter wide space. However, as the walls were placed in relation to the A-frames of the roof, the velux windows positioned and the true dimensions of the barn discovered (the original plans were out by enough to make a difference) I think we’ve been able to make good use of the space and provide rooms that are big enough, but not wasteful. And so my strange 1 meter wide space has transformed into a dressing area - magic!
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Building Progress ~ February 2008, week 3 on February 28th, 2008
Things are moving along at a pace now as the first floor is in and the upstairs partitions are about to go in.
Radon Report on May 23rd, 2007
Until I started researching the Healthy House concept, I’d always taken such things as the need for a radon survey with a pinch of salt; as a necessary evil, a piece of unavoidable paid-for bureaucracy.
Cables on April 17th, 2008
Beautiful things electrical cables.
Where have all the builders gone? Part 2 on July 2nd, 2007
Déjà vu….
Copper Nails! on August 11th, 2006
There are all sorts in interesting(?) facts that you learn when you begin to dabble in an area with which you've had little previous experience (such as converting a shed to a house is to me).
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March 14th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Hi great blog, i’m glad you are making so much progress. Unfortunately my barn is not!I have a blog lightwood.blogspot.com- Good luck