Sunday visit....

Today we visited the house before we went for dinner in my parents house.

I climbed out the above window to have a look at the hot tub in the garden - the door out to the garden is currently blocked by scaffolding.
You can get an idea of the scale of the window by the fact that I was comfortably able to climb out it!





Here I am trying out what will be the bench seat.  It is very low to the ground, will probably fit about 8-10 people on it....... a perfect conversation pit!

Bench seat in the front room is being constructed.  

Steel frame will be covered in oak and then custom upholstered.

Canopy above the front door is being rebuilt. The original canopy was in such a state of disrepair that it needed to be removed.  Ciaran considered leaving it off but decided to build a new one and reinstall it as he felt it would do a good job of protecting us from the rain as we were opening the door.  

Glass has been fitted in the door out to the tiny courtyard. In the above picture you can look right through to the back of the house and see the glass door in the below picture.  Lights have been fitted that will illuminate this area to the back of the house and it will make a nice feature at night as you enter the house.  The light will be welcoming and will draw you in to the house.

A new design for the front room!

Open plan front room, with a view back up to higher entrance hallway, which utilises the high floor to ceiling height space   The main feature of this space will be a built in wrap around seating area under the window and shutter boxes.

Here is a photo of me standing in the front room and how it currently looks!

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