I feel as though today (Wed 5 March) is the first complete day’s work I’ve done for a while, not broken by phonecalls and admin. Yesterday I had the long bottom shelf in position, propped on random pieces of wood, and by this evening I had it cut and trimmed to fit, notched to accommodateContinue reading “Wolves and mouflon”
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Going south for action painting
HOUSE: Another Saturday, another roll of seagrass matting. Although it was slightly larger we managed to wrestle the second piece of matting upstairs on our own, having overcome some mental inertia to empty our bedroom of furniture… …make floor space in the living room then unroll and trim the seagrass. T omake fitting at theContinue reading “Going south for action painting”
Raw easterly
Since Friday 25 March In contrast to the sun’s warmth through glass, the day outside felt raw, with a chill easterly chasing clouds towards us, across the loch. I collected a warm hens egg from the neighbour’s chickens and reflected that it was’t a good day for outdoor working after all. The four hens betweenContinue reading “Raw easterly”
Green because it’s moldy?
Scullery: I picked up where I left off, adding a floor to the right hand cupboard under the scullery (‘the second kitchen’ as Chris calls it…)sink. A shelf followed for the left hand cupboard, which is where we’ll hide – and use – the microwave. We need left and right hand drawers so I’ll need toContinue reading “Green because it’s moldy?”
New glasses, some driftwood
Time to fix that piece of sea-smoothed gorse wood and a hook for the shopping list onto the larder door. The door is an insubstantial affair, skinned with thin hardboard on softwood edges. Fixings away from the edges need reinforcement, in this case ply patches. In the magic room the new shelf and cupboard unit needed itsContinue reading “New glasses, some driftwood”
Enough shelves and cupboards?
Can one have enough shelves and cupboards? WORK: I don’t know, but I’ve ended the week feeling positive, new shelves and cupboards standing firm in the magic room (Bedroom 3 on planning drawings), attached to the wall and the floor and surprisingly level and plumb! I did my best with limited resources, cutting the plywood sheetsContinue reading “Enough shelves and cupboards?”
A sustainable house for unsustainable times... 