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Romantic Candlelit Bath?

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Candlelit Bath

Candlelit Bath

What could be more romantic, a bath by candle light to soothe the stresses of the day away… I wish! No, the candles in our bathroom are actually the lights in our bathroom because we had the ceiling over-boarded and re-plastered, and now we don’t actually have any … errmm … electric lights in our bathroom!!

At first the kids thought it was a great novelty, now they just accept it. Looking forward to the clocks going forward :)

Now we just need to find an electrician to fit the new 12v down lighters.

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Wooden Hardwood Double Glazed Window for En-suite

Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Wooden Hardwood Window

Wooden Hardwood Window

Finally (after rather a long wait!) our new double glazed wooden hardwood window for the en-suite has been fitted! Yay! Which means I we now have some natural daylight to add to the down lighters.

We had a tough time trying to choose the right window, as we knew we wanted hardwood, but did not know which type was best. Also, it needed to match in style and colour our new bi-folding Sunfold doors as well. In the end we chose Iroko hardwood which we got stained using Sikkens Cettol 2 application wood stain, which was also used on our doors and windows in the family room.

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Solatube ‘Light Pipe Daylight Tube’ Thing Installation

Monday, September 7th, 2009
Solatube Light Pipe on Roof

Solatube Light Pipe on Roof

A friend of mine reminded me the other day that we have never posted a blog about our Solatube ‘Light tubes’.  So I thought it was high time I did!

A light tube is a way of getting natural daylight into a space where typically you might not have any windows. Due to the fact the Farm has been extended many times by the previous owners, the stair well and landing is almost landlocked, therefore we have installed and fitted 2 (third is waiting to be fitted) Solatube light pipes.

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Our New Sunfold Bi-Folding Doors in Hardwood

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Sunfold Doors Before

Before Sunfold Doors

We are very excited and proud to finally have our Sunfold bi-folding doors installed. This was always part of the ‘big picture/grand design’ for The Farm and they are simply awesome!

It was great to finally see the hoarding that we have lived with months get ripped away and finally reveal the views of the garden.

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Top 5 Best & Worst Renovation Moments

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

Well, we have now been in a for a few weeks, and it’s great to get some time to take stock and watch the kids running ‘Little House on the Prairie’ like around the land :)

However, it has also been a good time to stop and think about all the last 9 months has thrown up, in particular the building works. I thought I would share you with (for cathartic reasons) my top 5 best and worst moments of the work:

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