Outdoor inspiration #1
Once painting (windows frames) and pointing (repointing the stonework) are completed, I’m hoping that the good temperatures and most importantly dry weather of late summer-autumn will extend long enough to allow for some further work outside the barn.
We intend to dig out much of the the bank that currently dominates what will be the rear garden and then to landscape it to provide a level lawn area surrounded by slopping banks, terraces and retaining walls. Due to the nature of the plot we’ll need to cleverly build quite a few retaining walls of varying sizes. For the smaller, less steep slopping areas where structural strength isn’t such a concern I like the approach taken at the foot of the wall on this photograph from robinlucianobeaty.blogspot.com:
Garden Inspiration
There is quite a lot of dry stone walling around the place already – this will be nicely in keeping and also quicker and easier to build than a solid mortared stone wall.
If you enjoyed that post, then read these…
Lime Pointing ~ Summer 2008 – part 3
Whilst not wanting to become a lime-pointing-bore (I bet there aren’t too many of those in the world) I feel another update is in order.
Building Progress ~ August 2009
The rainy damp Summer of 2009 continues.
Cornwall 2010
I picked up on a few ‘nuggets’ of inspiration on our recent trip to Cornwall.
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September 22nd, 2010 at 9:30 am
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