Fixing up the bedroom

13 December 2015

We took the decision that it was time to sort out some niggly bits in the bedroom, before the weather gets cold and while we wait for the remaining two window frames for the front door section from Rowan.

 These are ceiling edge boards above the bed, replacing loose straw and stuffed pillows - this should help keep the dust down

 Impossible to photograph - this is our little walk-in-and-bang-your-head wardrobe at the end of the bedroom.  The straw bales plastered, and then boxed in with plasterboard offcuts that just stretched to do the whole space (and cleared us out of plasterboard pieces).

 And I set to and made us some fancy linen with cotton lining curtains for the bedroom, to help insulate our polythene windows, since there won't be any glass in them this winter.  Lovely fabric.

 Then, at the last possible moment, Rowan arrived with the two window frames we need to keep plastering, and left them with us to fit ourselves.  He's been working day and night to meet all his obligations before going away for three weeks.

 Dave had also completed all the ceiling boards in the living room, giving it a nice neat finish.  Apart from all the straw still needing to be covered.

This is our polythene cat flap door, it proved too successful for the neighbouring stray cats, so I plywooded up the opening, but something - possibly one or both of our own cats - is ripping it's way in through the plastic.  More plywood needed.