Bill reflecting on the servery
A minute (or minuet) for piano practice
Tulips in bloom
Emily happy planting
Raised bed planted. Fingers crossed for no frost
Doors ready to open
Old school corner
Coffee shop and servery nearly ready
Emily practises making a latte
Our trolly gets a rain hood
Outdoor tables and chairs
Tables and chairs in place inside the coffee shop
School desks waiting for pupils
Servery with train above
Clock's ticking
Daffs out
Coffee shop kitchen with two sinks under the window
Coffee shop kitchen nearly installed
Bulbs coming up nicely
Our new entrance door painted
New gate next to the fence
Bill's new door for his shed/store
Accessible entrance with new water pipes installed below
Main entrance to coffee shop with new steps
Basin installed in utility room
Cloakroom bench in entrance hall
Bunk room bookcase installed
Chandelier in mezzanine bedroom
Ceiling lights in coffee shop
Old wall light working
What Not in situ
Victorian bookcase with Victorian books inside
Arts and crafts dresser in place in the coffee shop
Iroko worktops fitted
Emily under the Coffee Shop clock
Coffee Shop servery awaiting worktops
New laid pipe ready to be connected at the Old School
50mm water pipe going in
Peter and his mini digger
Pipe awaiting connection to the water mains
Coffee Shop - a hive of activity
Bathroom finished
First piano movement
Do you know the piano's on my foot?
Furniture in place
Oh the weather outside is frightful...
Let it snow, let it snow...
Mezzanine populated
Emily in the midst of unpacking 200 boxes of stuff
Bill wondering where all the stuff will go
Bathroom with driftwood
Ready for our stuff
Lights on, woodburner lit
Derek fitting the new doors for the Coffee Shop
Coffee shop toilets ready for 'pottery'
Kitchen cabinets and worktop under construction
Bunk room basics in place
Emily imagining our young helpers in the bunk room
New (extended) mullion almost in place - nobody move!
Breakfast bar under construction
John, Bill's friend from way back, cutting engineered floorboards to size
New oak flooring in one of the bedrooms
Chris fitting the arches to the bookcase
Bookcase nearing completion
James (the Blacksmith) and his team fitting the balusters and balcony
Bill looking for cash in the attic
Opening for new doors in the Coffee Shop
New stone for extending the mullion in the doorway - defrosting in the Coffee Shop
Saloon doors between the servery and the Coffee Shop kitchen
Coffee shop toilet tiled
Derek fitting the main door to the dwelling
Dwelling kitchen taking shape
Unpacking the flat packs
John completes the wood flooring in the bunk room
Woodburning stove in the dwelling gets its smoke test
Stove showing transition from single to insulated flue
Derek making a cupboard in the entrance hall
Chris working on bookcases
Bookcase waiting for arches
Ian with completed entrance ramp
Stairs in place, waiting for balustrade
Derek & Chris, our joiners, fitting the stairs
Bookcase desk taking shape
Keiran cleans up with, in the background, props in place in the enlarged opening for two new doors to the Coffee Shop
Bathroom tiled and fitted, ready for painting
Arch in Coffee Shop ready for hearth
Access ramp under construction
Raised bed completed with wood trim, ready for filling
Indian stone to be used to form the hearths for the woodburning stoves
Duggie & Neil fitting the new door and window
Rear corridor plastered
Knotty door with stopping applied
North wall painted with base cabinets for the bookcase in place
Painters at work on North wall of dwelling
South end of Coffee Shop ceiling showing plastering and repaired truss
Andy at work plastering the Coffee Shop ceiling
Seat under dog owners' shelter
Semi-circular seat for dog owners
Dog owners' shelter being built
Wardrobes showing modification to fit under ceiling
Wardrobes installed, clear-up elf in background
Framework for wardrobes in mezzanine bedroom
Paul, our tiler, at work in the shower room
Tiling in the shower room
Bathroom tiles ready for grouting
Bathroom tiling in progress
First course of stones laid for the raised flower bed
Air source heat pump in place
Dwelling clear looking East
Dwelling clear looking West
Detail of new gate showing sconce for candle
New gates & arch before painting
Emily tamping the concrete for the raised bed footings
Featherboarding completed
Emily with ice sheet
Emily (with seven layers - not veils) building the fence
DC to AC inverter for electricity generated on our roof
New panels on the South wall
Concrete slab down in the coffee shop
Our plumbers fixing our photovoltaic solar panels
Pergola finished
Ceiling plastered
East window with floor detail completed
Bath under wraps
West window with new window ledge
Bedroom three - first plaster and bathroom fittings waiting to be fitted
Bedroom two - first plaster
Window-ledges going in
New entrance doorframe and window waiting to be fitted
Bill under the pergola imagining the grapevine
Emily under the pergola imagining the climbing roses
Plastering in progress
New windows in East end of the dwelling
Refurbished dormers painted
New windows in the West end of the dwelling
Pergola as darkness falls
Pergola looking West
Basic pergola frame in place
Sandblasted trusses looking west
Mullion sandblasted back to stone
Drains going in
Emily looking for finds
Ford across the Murk
Looking down the path to the Co-op
Emily looking East
Looking down to the station
School with former headteacher's cottage
