More Mud and Baby Birds

I had thought I’d post more frequently now that there are things to see going on at the house. We’re always excited to see whatever new bit of render has gone on when we drop in but unfortunately, in photos, there isn’t much to show. All mud just looks like mud.

 The morning sun coming through our bedroom window.

So far the lounge and our bedroom are done both inside & out. The bathroom is taking shape with a first coat inside and the spare room has its initial inside coat too.

The first coat of render inside the bathroom.  

Both the bathroom and the spare bedroom have their final coats outside so this end of the house is starting to look pretty good.

 The spare room - final coat outside

Here’s the actual interesting bit. We had to do something about the curved wall in the kitchen. Initially it was meant to only go up to stair level so its height would step up following the height of the stairs to the study BUT that created problems for how we would attach the ceiling above the stairs (I don’t think of these practical things when I come up with my design brilliance… it’s up to somebody else to make it work. I should have been an architect!) To solve this problem we decided to make the wall the full height all the way around but to allow light into the stairwell we’ve done this…

I wasn’t keen on the idea at first but I came around & now that it’s in, I think it looks better than my original idea.

This is an arty shot of our curved wall from above :) Do you feel dizzy?

 This is still our favourite view – from the big window in the study:

The Grey Shrike-thrush who has nested in the shack before has come back now that it's a bit quieter without us around. Look, baby birds!