1st Floor interior

We feel as if we have achieved very little in the past couple of weeks, of course, this is our busiest time for our business and it really is "all hands on deck" most of the week to make sure our guests have a great holiday. We are also very mindful of only working when our guests are out for the day...hence progress is slow.

We have started work on the 1st floor walls. To allow light into the ground floor kitchen as well as some into the first floor bedroom, we fitted two small velux windows very near the base of the roof. In this way, we were able to allow light to flood downwards by keeping the first floor joists open over the kitchen and using glass bricks on the first floor. We are really pleased with the affect.

The majority of the remaining walls on the first floor (which are really the inside of the roof) are going to be covered by "lambris" or tongue and groove. The rafters are going to remain partially exposed and coloured white and the lambris is going to have a white wash and be fitted in between each rafter. It is a painstakingly slow process as each piece of lambris has to be cut to size then fitted. We have tried really hard to limit the amount of plasterboard going up as we are keen not to creatE a "white box" effect. As the house is very straight and simple we are endeavouring to keep any of the unique characteristics, such as the timber, exposed to inject some "soul" into the building (as well as the blood, sweat and tears which are already in it!!!)

We've also started to fit some of the wardrobe doors which has been a bit of a nightmare as the timber rafters are obviously all slightly different but there you go..we have come to expect all jobs to be difficult!

The 1st fix of electrics are now in place at last and we have mounted the "Gaine Technique de Logement" or in English, a massive great big space where all electrics, aerial cables, phone lines and internet lines should meet.

So onwards we plod!