My Barn Conversion

Anyone who has encountered my stuttering inability to remember the proper name for things … things like the constituent parts of a roof or a staircase, or the name of a particular tool, or of different types of nuts, bolts and other fasteners will understand my attraction to this page found on an American website…Continue reading Nuts and Bolts

I have a lot of shelving and storage to build, install or buy for the barn. At the moment there is very little real storage. That makes things nice and open – no big closed in furniture and nice uncluttered walls, but it’s not very practical. In my usual way, I’ve been trawling the webContinue reading Shelving and storage

In my slow, intermittent, literary stroll through Roger Deakin’s Notes from Walnut Tree Farm I stumbled across another quotation that I couldn’t help but agree with… I really do want people to come home to a real fire. A nation without the flames of a fire in the hearth, and birds singing outside the openContinue reading the lost soul of the nation…

Suffice to say the garden is a bit of a bomb site…

Whilst the interiors of this barn conversion in Austria are a little too coldly architectural for my liking, I love this external wall. It evokes a favourite Roger Deakin quote. (It’s also a bit daft that it’s the north facade of the building as the logs will get no sun on them to aid inContinue reading a mosaic of cut log ends…

Update on building progress during December 2010…

Snow, snow, snow…