Internally the big news is the completion of Freya's bedroom. Its turned out really nicely and Freya is thrilled with it. She obviously had a large role in the decorative theme for the room (luckily claypaint does come in pink).
The beautiful weather this week was perfect for taking photos of the cottage, and so I thought it was about time I updated this blog. Although I've not been keeping up to date, there has been a lot going on. As you can see from the picture above, the exterior stone walls of the cottage are now lime-washed and the exterior is close to complete, though we do plan to repaint the chimneys and there will be a final change to the front with the re-instatement of the front porch. Internally the big news is the completion of Freya's bedroom. Its turned out really nicely and Freya is thrilled with it. She obviously had a large role in the decorative theme for the room (luckily claypaint does come in pink). Freya's room is in the oldest part of the property and also had one wall where a previous owner had, had the "bright" idea to take down part of the inner skin in order to install a fitted cupboard. Although Brian repaired and stabilized the wall some time ago, it had left this old wall pretty unlevel in places. The solution was a poured render of insulating lime plaster on the two exterior walls, levelling them up and also making the room lovely and cosy. Speaking of lovely and cosy, the other big development since my last post is not easily illustrated in pictures. We've had the stove in for some time now providing heat and hot water and running a single "heat leak" radiator in the corridor, but this winter Brian plumbed in all the other radiators and got the pump up and running so we had fully functional central heating (and an airing cupboard, or "hot press" as they call it here).
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