We have progress.

Hubby's trip to Ireland went well.  It was a quick dash across really but achieved a lot.

He impressed to see how much Robbie the spark had done, all the first fix electrics are in! So he said there were cables everywhere. Glad the electrician knows what leads where because it does look quite complicated.

This is going to be our sitting room.

We have had an engineer go out to the property and measure up for a staircase which will take us up to the first floor.

When we first viewed the property there was a temporary staircase there and we were blown away when we walked up to the first floor. It is built as a bungalow with all the living rooms and bedrooms located on the one floor. However the people who originally designed and built it, allowed space in the roof for future development.

We decided that we would go ahead and develop it at the same time as the rest of the house. I was particularly excited as I could picture

 a rather lovely craft room for myself.

This is what the space looked like when we first viewed it. It measures about 10m wide by 20m length.

So we have plans which do indeed allow me a craft room but also gives hubby a room too. This will be a typical lads room with TV, and gaming consoles as well as comfy sofas.I suspect there may also be a little bar area too! Both of these rooms will also double as extra bedrooms should we ever have a huge crowd of family/friends staying, which we sincerely hope to happen. There will also be a small bathroom too.

So this is what it now looks like. Kevin the builder has been busy.

The next things to be done will be installation of the insulation throughout the property. We have also chosen the stoves/fires which will be in the sitting room and dining area.

Hubby is going back over in about three weeks time. Sadly due to work commitments I can't visit site again until August when I expect I will notice just how much has been done. 

Work has started

I'm feeling excited today as tomorrow hubby is off over to Ireland for about 4 days to check out progress on the house.

I say progress, but I mean to say, if anything has happened at all since the last time we were there.

West of Ireland time is a lot slower than anywhere in the world I have been so although the surveyor said we would be in by Christmas he failed to say which Christmas. We are hoping he meant Christmas 2015.

We speak quite regularly to our lovely neighbours over in Ireland who update us as to the recent activity (or lack of) at the house.  Our house is situated at very end of a lane, you can go no further except up a great mountain so everything has to go past our neighbours house to reach ours, nothing is missed it would seem!

We heard from our electrician that he had been working here and he had a few questions needed answering too about certain positioning of lights, he has now finished the first fix of electrics. So I am excited now because I've sent hubby off with strict instructions to get as many photos as possible to update the blog and we can add it to our timeline of our house,from start to eventual finish.

Hubby has also got to count all the light switches and sockets so I now how many to order. Last year we visited a large home show event and I spied some gorgeous light switches and sockets. Quite unlike anything I have seen before and I fell in love with them. Initially we felt we couldn't justify buying something that was double the price of a normal white light switch but finally we decided we would go for them. We are only going to do this type of project once and so we are going to fit what we like (within reason and financial constraints of course.) I have taken second job and now every time I do a shift I can boast that I just bought X number of light switches.

In other news, the staircase people have been out to measure up and we've totalled up how many led light fittings we need?

Looking forward to showing the progress with some photos soon.