Month: November 2010

  • 300th Post on MyBarnConversion

    I’ve made 299 posts before this one on MyBarnConversion.com, so I thought I’d take some time out and see how I got here while writing the 300th… The first post was made on the 28th June 2006. Since I started monitoring traffic to the site on the 6th April 2007 there have been 113,473 Visits…

  • Digger!

    I’ve been itching get started on sorting out the garden and beds at both the front and back of the barn all summer. So, when we arrived at the barn last Saturday to find S digging a ditch along the drive with a digger and with the offer of starting on our garden there seemed…

  • My Favourite Things ~ Stairs

    We invested a lot of money in wood when converting the barn. The stairs, doors and window frames have all been pricey items. Each involved a number of decisions – hardwood or softwood, oak or pine, painted or treated, natural or stained … Suffice to say that the decision made was rarely on the side…

  • Sheeps wools insulation

    I was at Rounded Developments last week for a meeting and a big bag of sheeps wool insulation was cluttering the place up. It was a cancelled order that was now looking for a home and fortunately I have a home for it. I have two ‘boxing-in’ projects to complete. From Barn Conversion 2010 The…

  • Pumpkin soup

    I managed to grow a couple of pumpkins this year. From Barn Conversion 2010 They led me to make some soup, which in turn led me to write up the recipe, which in turn led me to write a post on a website that I all but abandoned a couple of years ago when the…

  • Progress in Pictures – Update 2010

    I was recently ferreting through my old posts re-tagging and categorising them and came across this Progress in Pictures post from summer 2008. An update seemed to be in order, so in the spirit of these posts, I’ll let the pictures do the talking… Before… autumn 2007 Before (picture taken October 2007) During… summer 2008…

  • Guy Fawkes night (+1) 2010

    A week last Saturday… Emergency, emergency…. From Barn Conversion 2010 It’s OK – 2 year-old firemen were at hand…

  • planners have a lot to answer for…

    As usual, I must agree with Roger Deakin… Planners have a lot to answer for on the commons. Roof heights are all wrong now. The monster executive villas dwarf the older, vernacular language of the Suffolk houses, which all more or less had the same roof height and alignment. Planners have allowed the scale and…

  • Green Books Campaign: The Making of the British Landscape

    This review is part of the Green Books campaign.

  • Maintain Traditions – architecture, design and the local vernacular

    Consider the local vernacular.

  • Building Progress ~ October 2010

    Update on building progress during October 2010… ‘Seems like I’ve been repointing for ever and ever…’ …but I’m nearly there!

  • the things done on not enough money…

    I’ve been poring over Roger Deakin’s Notes from Walnut Tree Farm again. I feel somewhat chastised for my insistence on oak in the interior of the barn (although there’s also beech in the kitchen)… …converting old barns with as much oak as possible. Oak represents value now and is like gold teeth here: you have…