Until August last year, there used to be an old barn attached to the cottages here. With the kitchen due to be installed in about 3 weeks time, we are getting ready for the decorators to start on Monday – once the kitchen is installed, it will be very difficult to get tower scaffold into the kitchen to paint the ceiling. With the plaster on the walls, it is starting to resemble something habitable.
The balcony into the kitchen is from the upstairs study and marks the transition between old and new. The doorway on the left leads into the hall (where we are just finishing off the plastering).
There is a series of tall unit to go into this space. The canopy slightly overhangs the units as there are lights embedded in the canopy. There is another light just over the doorway into the utility room.
The roof trusses and purlins are all made of oak and built in the old fashioned way to match the rest of the property.
This wall was built using stone that we reclaimed from an internal wall that we demolished in the old cottages. There will be a bank of work surfaces (including a sink and a hob) to go along here.
