Not David Bailey

It's Sunday evening, the clocks have gone back and I was just about to settle down and watch a movie when I realised that I have been living here for a fortnight now and I am due to update this blog. So I have just had a nice hot shower and here I am at the computer. It's snowing hard outside, it has been for a few hours, and there is about five inches of wet snow on the ground. I don't think it will last that long but, who knows.

The big news this fortnight is that I have found my little digital camera which isn't great and doesn't turn me into David Bailey but, it is better than my iPone camera that I have been using for the last two years for the blog. So I'll start by showing you some better photos of my bedroom and en-suite bathroom and then I'll show you what I have been up to these last two weeks.

Most mornings the sun wakes me up by shining straight through the french window onto my bed, …..

…. which as you can see I had already made by the time the sun came out on this occasion.

This camera has a slightly wider field of view than the iPhone and therefore you can gauge the room size better.

I am afraid that I haven't had time to put any pictures up or to get any rugs for the floors yet but, they will eventually make the place a bit more homely.

So far the wood burning stove in the Great Room has managed to keep the house nice and warm and therefore the furness and baseboard heaters (one of which you can see here) have not been put to use yet. 

A better view of the vanity in the en-suite …..

and the shower, which has proven a great success. No problems with moisture for the wood in the shower area. The extractor fan takes all the steam out almost instantly and the dry atmosphere in the cabin absorbs any residual moisture very quickly. I also gave the beams a couple of extra coats of external wood stain just for good measure.

My main effort this fortnight has been finishing all the high areas of the Great Room, which included painting the white wall boards, staining the beams and then putting on the trim to cover the gap between the two. I also managed to put this fan up - sorry about the specks of dust on the camera lens.

I have also put the trim on the prow windows and doors which wasn't as straight forward as at first I thought it was going to be but, the end result is good.

I have also removed the plastic protection from the windows and that has brightened the place up considerably. 

I had to wait until it was dark outside to take these photos as all my attempts during daylight didn't show any of the detail because it was too bright outside. You can see my neighbours house in the distance through the windows.

I also put up the panelling on the other side of the Great Room (top left of the photo), by the second bedroom and once the window is in (you can see one on the floor here) I will be able to get the scaffolding out of the house.

The next task is to do the panelling at the entrance and on the stairwell. I'll make a start on this tomorrow after I have finished making the internal windows for the second bedroom, which I will then have to take into town to have the glass made for them.

The only negative thing this fortnight was that I dislocated the middle joint of my little finger on my left hand. I managed to do it climbing up the scaffolding would you believe. I put it back in place without any pain at all but, I should then have put a splint on it, which I didn't. So now I have a permanently thickened joint and I cannot straighten the bloody thing. Well, at least it isn't my trigger finger. Hey ho!