Done and dusted

The shed is now complete and we spent the weekend moving stuff in, our ride-on mower with trailer proved very handy moving the heavy items like left over tiles.

We are happy with the way it has turned out and the roller doors ended up being a close match to the sliding doors and alfresco wood stain which worked out better than we expected.

Mr BBR has started the unenviable task of digging the drainage trenches by hand, we are also getting 10m3 of gravel delivered tomorrow morning which will be used for the drainage and also around the house.

So things are shaping up well and we will have a fair few things to keep us busy over Christmas along with relaxing of course :-) 



To the ManCave!

As promised here is an update on the progress of the shed aka ManCave.

The slab went down early last week, we also opted to get a 6mx6m pad put out the front of it to allow for additional parking.

Here is the finished product: 

and then came the rain, we had 4 days of pretty heavy falls which meant the construction of the shed was delayed for a bit, but there was a bit of a break in the weather on Saturday meaning that the guys could come a do a couple of hours prep work, then come Monday things were full steam ahead with the frame being laid out and by the end of the day the outside frame and 2 walls were up.

As you can see in the pics we need to really concentrate on sorting out the drainage once the shed is complete due to the amount of rain we have been receiving.

The rest of the walls went up along with some of the roof on Tuesday, we opted for skylights to help with providing some natural light since there are no windows.

Today means that the final bits should be going up and we will be able to finally start using the shed, yipee!

Professor Plum, in the study with the candlestick

Well, not quite, but there is now a complete light in the study after Mr BBR spent about an hour painstakingly individually screwing in the rods and then applying the little circles on the end to turn it the spectacular feature light that it now is.

We started off with just the bare fitting and bulbs....

Then added the rods to give it that hedgehog look

And finally added the finishing touches of the circles, and now we have our own little Meteor in the study.

Of course, now we have the other Meteor and the even bigger Asteroid in the lounge to look forward to finishing off too.... good thing the Christmas holidays are coming up ;-)