The Self Builder’s blog

Exciting stuff.  The upstairs stud walls are erected.

As experienced before, having the beginnings of walls and a roof, gives a great insight into the eventual feel of the upstairs.

The architect was actually concerned, that if we weren’t careful, we would create a house with a marvellous ground floor, but a disappointing, yet still very functional, upstairs.

He was desperately trying to convince me to drop down to three bedrooms and not have a room above the hall at all, thus creating a grand stair case, a landing overlooking the hall and huge space.

While I agreed that would look great, it was too much to sacrifice, so we discussed using some of the space for a galleried landing.

It really works.  It will give the upstairs a nice reception area.  They’ll be a bit of character and personalisation with my own stain glass window design.  Which in itself will bring more light to that area that my original design.

The bathroom suffers a bit.  But it is still big enough for a bath and separate shower.  It will probably only be used by Junior anyway, and he’s only, as ofter mentioned, three-foot anyway. So it will look huge to him.

More trades are back tomorrow, I’m expecting the first fit electrics to start and the plumber won’t be very far behind.

The windows are on order, and should be made next week, for installation the following.  I think the builder is hoping to be in a position to get the plasterer in soon after that point.  To start the mammoth job, that is to put smooth finishes on everything.