Thursday 29 October 2009

Cornerstones

The builders seem to have found a new lease of life and suddenly things have progressed at the house (probably because he wants to finish and be paid and get us out of his hair)! Ian has been receiving daily updates with pictures of the work and requests for money!

They have finishing off the outside and putting some cornerstones on the building prior to it being rendered. These are made of reconstituted stone as the real things would be far too expensive. They are a bit 'mockney-chav' but hopefully will look okay once the building is rendered.
We also have mock lintels across the tops of the windows (Ian changed his mind about the arched windows) and a keystone in the middle of front door lintel.

3 comments:

twosheilasandadog said...

It is looking amazing-when do you start sourcing llamas?
Fx

Lovely's Blot said...

Hoping to get out there by next summer so sometime around then I hope!

Chairman Bill said...

It's starting to look like Badger's End, but without the wooden barge boarding. It looks lovely.

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