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When I said 'Nearly Finished'....

7/16/2017

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So we finally got rid of our builders which means we can thankfully stop making endless bacons sandwiches and tea, the garage/studio is built, now we just have to small task of decorating and landscaping to do....shouldn't take too long right?
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It's taken about 6 weeks and several false starts but we finally have the studio doors on, these where a last minuet alterations to our plans as originally we didn't think we had the budget to do double glass doors but our builders happened to mention that they had some high spec grey doors that had be ordered for another job and then the client decided they didn't like them. So we managed to bag £3000 worth of doors for £1000 fully fitted!
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We also had to have the steps going down rebuilt as the hights where slightly off and I kept tripping going up them!

We have the walls of the little courtyard at the back now painted white, it was going to be rendered but again money constrains stopped this so we just painted it to match the inside of the studio.

We've also made a start on laying the reclaimed parquet flooring, I managed to score this of eBay for just £10! The slight down side is its taking bloody ages to clean off each piece ready to lay but we are really happy with how it looking...
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We decided to lay it at a slight angle across the room, although the room is square (not something we are used to with our 300 year old cottage!) we just felt it would add a more modern edge to have it run at 30 degrees.

We have the stove guys booked for the end of this month which is why this corner got done first, Im soooo excited about getting the stove in, cant wait to play with it!

The sexy german gutting has also gone up which lead to this whatsapp conversation with The Mothership and Sis...

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...shes very proud!
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Despite how complicated looking all the parts where when in the box this was surprisingly easy to fit and look 100 times better than plastic. We have used plastic on the other side but as you cant really see it as it butts up to next door so closely we though we'd save some pennies.

We have also finally got the trench that we dug for all the electric and cat 6 cables filled in, thank god! We both kept falling in it repeatedly, I actually though Rich had broken his leg at one point but no just really bad bruising from hip to knee!

Unfortunately 3 months of soil piled high has killed quite a few plants and pretty much all the grass, as we cant now afford turf rolls we are falling back on grass seed and time. It does make the place seem a bit bleak however.

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Despite everything else happening I have managed to get some veg in, Victoriana Nursery once again coming to my rescue and sending lots of parcels of lovely plants.

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Im experimenting with growing beans up the fence of the chicken coop as Im not a bit pushed for space, so far so good.
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So thats it for not, just a few jobs to be geeting on with...lots more scraping of parquet blocks, pouring the courtyard floor to get the correct hight, lay the pavers, steps and capping stomes, digout the garden at the top of the studio steps to make a seating area, fit out the garage, fit garage doors, wire up lighting in both garage and studio then move office in...just one or two things to do then!
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