Rainbow brown

"Why, when you've got a whole rainbow of colours to choose from, do you paint the hall brown?!"   This was Hannah's exasperated question upon seeing 'Truffle' paint on one of the hall walls. (The rest are all Bridleways White, giving the required light and airy feel.) "It's not quite as bad as I feared." was Emma's encouraging response.  Adrian and I quite like it!

Dad and Pen have been to visit for a couple of days (staying with Sue and Dave in Rustington) and been a huge help with painting and domestic chores.  Emma's bathroom is now a beautiful 'Macaroon Mint'.

As well as painting, Adrian's weekend chores have included: preparing another wooden beam for the family room fireplace (hole pictured below); rerouting the phone line to the garden room through a previously buried duct and into the new house; and fitting insulated pipes from the ground floor hot water tank to the loft ready for future solar panels.

 

This is the rebuilt kitchen fireplace (complete with another of Adrian's oak beams) where the cooker will go.

 

This last picture shows Adrian's filter system for our rainwater harvesting unit, shortly to be hidden behind walls with a secret access point.

With just five weeks until Easter (our original intended moving-in date!), next week's jobs include deciding which liquid screed company to do the whole ground floor, and ordering the under floor heating system.  And hopefully the plasterers will be back to continue with the ground floor walls (and outside rendering, weather/temperature allowing).  Pat and Alan will continue boarding out the remaining ground floor rooms and hallway, which will make everything start to look a lot more 'homely'.