Our swanky London flat

I've had requests to blog some images of our barn conversion. Apologies for the delay.. Part of me wanted to wait until we were in - which since Christmas I've constantly thought was going to be in about 3 or 4 days time! We're converting the barn as somewhere to live until we build the house. Anyway, we decided to do things properly, so we are essentially building a proper flat within the barn, and that means everything takes longer. Steven has done the whole conversion himself - I thought I was a perfectionist! When I help I can almost feel him worrying that I won't continue the STRAIGHT LINE.

Even though I say this every week and no one is going to believe me anymore - we will actually be moving in next Sunday. WOOHOO! There's only a few hundred more little things to do in the meantime. Sometimes I find myself daydreaming that its all magically finished and we can move in tonight. Here are my most popular daydreams at the moment:

1) We win the lottery, and pay a team of the fastest tradesmen around to finish the barn for us. Then we holiday in Hawaii for a bit.
2) We actually do the work ourselves, although I have a magical remote control that fastforwards to me sitting in the barn watching a good film with a large slab of chocolate thinking "I'm glad THATS all over".
3) We are nominated to be on one of those television programmes where Very Good People get rewarded for their good deeds by having their house built for them. Overnight. Only I'm not sure donating to charity by direct debit every month would qualify us.

Here are the photos!

Space for a double door and an upstairs window at the front:



Our new gravel driveway!





The upstairs is a mezzanine area, typical of a £300,000 flat in London! Only this is costing us a little less..



Weather boarding the outside:



This day Steven was doing the outside walls and I was doing the insulation on the inside:





A self portrait:



And a demonstration of how you insert the pink batts insulation into the walls:







That last one is Donna of course looking after her chicks. Its so cute watching them copy what she does. We only have 4 chicks now since Nana killed one (Nana the dog that is). She has a dark side to her that one. The only problem is she looks so cute and mournful on the naughty chain.