Finishing touches

Posted by Penny Sunday 3 April 2011

The project was completed on time thanks to all the labourers and of course Jackie and her team who put the finishing touches to the property in time for our first guests to arrive on Saturday.

Photos courtesy of Maria Burton www.lake-district-light.com

Final stretch

Posted by Maria Friday 1 April 2011

Final furnishing arrangements in full swing... log fires being made up ready, chandeliers being hung, pews emerging from piles of boxes, beds being made up.... and of course, the new sign! […]

Habitable again....

Posted by Penny on Wednesday 30 March 2011

I just got off the train from Keswick after three days of non-stop Number-Twenty-ing. Sunday night was a milestone - the first night someone has slept in the house since our last guests left on 4th Jan. I slept on the cushions of the new sofa we've just bought, on the newly-carpeted floor of the second floor family room. Colin had spent all day putting up bedframes but hadn't got as far as retrieving the mattresses from storage! Jackie had cleaned up one of the showers. Only a few lightbulbs were in so I was in the dark til morning ... and what a sight! Nice clean walls, carpets everywhere, and gorgeous bedrames from the Original Bedstead Company.... […]