PIMP MY CARAVAN!

We have been busy getting the caravan ready to live in, removing some of the furniture and adding more useful storage, pete has been building a made to measure desk, shoe storage, and shelving in the wardrobes,  I have been making brighter curtains and blinds in between the school and playschool runs and feeding Reuben! This week, we hope to get the verhandah built, and when I've finished all my sewing projects I will have to clean it thoroughly, ( that's my thoroughly of course !!!!!!!!!!!!- I am never ill too clean is bad for your health!)

Pete spoke to the folks next door about the boundry hedge and as they have now sold their propertey they were happy to let us remove the hedge (horrid lime green privett) and replace with fence (horrid bright orange panels), it is so bad I cant bring myself to include a photo, until it fades or a certain garden designer from London comes and tells me what plant will cover it and quickly! so that is all sorted now before the new people move in.

Pete has been making the fixed windows for the house, and the porch doors, (between the porch and the hall) the doors are based on a design that we admired whilst in covent garden.

Today Pete has started to make the window sills for the entire house, he predicts it will take a month to complete the project as he will only be able to make 2 every 2 days as they will take 48 hours to set, he also had to make a vibrating table to ensure a perfect finish, after hours of research on you tube - which brought up all sorts of interesting clips!!!!!!, he made it out of a load of wood a couple of old car tyres and a lot of double sided sticky tape- I think!!!!!

A SINK FOR SINDY!

Despite the brief break from work when Baby Reuben arrived  things are still moving in the right direction! The drive has been dug up to take the services to the caravan, we now have working electrics and running water and drainage, so it looks like the caravan is here to stay!

 The garden room is as finished as it can be until we knock down the bungalow and use the floor boards from the bedrooms to create the flooring. The log burner has been installed and works a treat!

Pete has been installing a toilet and sink in the corner of the garage, he used an old sink we had in the garden shed, earlier in the week he found a bargain vintage/ retro sink unit on ebay, but he failed to read the "small " print, and I kindly told him it was for a sindy house!!!!!!, it seemed too mean to let him head off with a trailer only to bring it back in the glove box!

Planning wise we have had the timber frames sent for us to view 3D on the computer which was great, but we are still waiting to have everything ready to apply for building regs and time is ticking............

LUCKY HEATHER AND BAKED HEDGEHOGS

The Caravan which will be our home nearly 2 years arrived today and has been installed on the drive, the deliverey guys were great and they brought a tractor with them, which was probably the better option, origionally we thought we might be able to hook it up to the CORSA!!!!!!! to manouvre into position! the whole job took about an hour and a half and the traffic was stopped for about 10 minutes!  Of course the village has never been so busy.

IT EVEN HAS ITS VERY OWN BEACH HUT!

The "site Office " has also been put up today!! and the old garage cleared out- looks like another bonfire.

SCOOP, MUCK AND DIZZY!

After a good few days and the help of some big boys toys the turning circle and its vegetable beds have been removed. We now have a new veg patch in the orchard raised beds laid out to comfort the hardiest of  OCD sufferers, and a big space in the middle for future green house. The holly tree was burnt, as promised, spectacularly on the remains of the turning circle and anything else green has been pruned back to within an inch of it's life! The garden room has now been plastered and is ready for painting, and the tomatos and potatos growing on the roof ( from the home made compost) look like fine specimens, our alpine seedlings are coming up so we can't get up there at the moment to remove the unwanted guests!

GROUND WORKS BEGIN!

The holly tree has been felled to make way for the big fat gypsy caravan!, that is going to be delivered on the 19th of September (hopefully baby won't decide to arrive on the same day- that would be a little in-convenient!). We are planning on having a bonfire on the turning circle to get rid of the Holly tree, it will probably be quite big and the bungalow could be destroyed earlier than planned!

WOODLANDS THE BEGINNING!

WELCOME TO OUR BLOG ABOUT OUR SELF BUILD, THE SMALL BUT LOVELY BUNGALOW THAT WILL SOON MAKE WAY FOR THE BUILDING OF OUR FAMILY HOUSE. BOTH PETE AND I ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO FINISHING WORK IN THE BEGINNING OF SEPTEMBER AND STARTING TO PREPARE THE SITE FOR THE BUILD.

THE GARDEN ROOM, THAT WILL GIVE US SOME REST BITE FROM THE CARAVAN, IN THE WARMER MONTHS IS COMING ON NICELY NOW AND WE ARE GLAD OF THE RECENT RAIN ON THE NEW GREEN ROOF.