Lily the pink

The dynamics have changed a little in terms of blogging on the house and seeing progress.  Like I said in a previous post, the nights have drawn in, so we are really only seeing progress each weekend, not each evening.  This has its pros and cons.

Driving up to the site today, Caitlin and myself agreed that when the scaffold is taken away we will get a real idea of how the house will look.  It will be a day to look forward to and a day to remember.  As we approached the turn for Nicholls Road we agreed not to look across at the back of the house so as not to spoil the surprise, it's also a dangerous thing to do on a main road.  Anyway, we avoided looking at the house as we drove through Coytrahen.  As usual we turned left at the pub, which is up for sale incidentally, and drew up to the front of the house.

As it happened, the day had come.  The scaffold had been taken down and the house could be seen in all its (unfinished) glory.

Wonderful.

Right hand side of the house, a lot of the features that I have blogged about previously can now be seen together, as a house.  The stone wall will be brought up to cover the two block pillars you can see.

The left hand side of the house.  The drive way will stretch from the edge of the garage to the top of the steps.

The side of the house.  The rendered finish is a thing of beauty.  It will look better when there is no plastic flapping about in the wind.

When stood above the garage, in the rafters, you can see out of the window.  This is that view.  It will probably be a better view when the builders take their toilet away.

This photo is captivating, I am not sure why.  The different materials that meet and work with each other, the angles and the lines.  The architects vision is possibly captured in this photo.  Or maybe it is just a photo of the roof and the sky.  Up to you.

Finally, our house, no scaffold.

This post could well end up being the one that gives me the second most amount of pleasure.  Thanks for reading.

Sean "McCloud" Rice.