My Barn Conversion

With plans in place, some success under my belt and a enthusiasm for cutting wood(!) I recently started work on a cabin bed for the second bedroom in the barn. The cabin bed build was a part of a larger project that included boxing-in the large thermal water store and all the associated pipe work,Continue reading Cabin bed build ~ part 1

According to an article in today’s Telegraph a cross party group of MP’s has been pretty critical of the National Planning Policy Framework, commenting amongst other things that it is “unhelpfully vague” and a “lawyer’s charter”. The Local Government Committee go on to make the following recommendations: * Scrapping a clause where developers are givenContinue reading Local Government Committee brands the National Planning Policy Framework as “unhelpfully vague” and a “lawyer’s charter”

When designing a layout it’s easy to forget to plan for storage…

Laying bare the basics of my floor structure through an annotated diagram that a layman like me can better understand, the aim of this post is to answer the question…what are the component parts of a floor? The diagram is based on the floor of the barn to the best of my recollection (it’s beenContinue reading The anatomy of a floor

Update on building progress during July 2011…

My wife has been hankering for some solid oak beam lamp stands for around the barn. You can get them from quite a few places across the ‘net, but the cost of delivery is usually quite prohibative due to the weight and size of them. As I was tidying the garage the other week IContinue reading Oak beam lamp stand

Here’s and old friend that I don’t see as much as I’d like… From Barn Conversion 2011 …and we probably need to start seeing more of if we’re to get ourselves out of this mess…