2nd - 8th August 2010

The builders were with us only two days this week as they returned to finish the pergola on Monday and Tuesday and then went off to their next job. They had erected the posts last week and the ever meticulous Neil complained that they had moved in the wind over the weekend and spent ages persuading them to realign.

Eventually, they were satisfied and it looked awesome, though in need of a vine or two to grow up it. So thanks to Neil and Richard for a job well done, please don't forget to come back for all the finishing inside.

Meanwhile inside our three highly skilled gibstoppers had been doing their stuff and had been working through the house room by room and layer by layer.

Gradually they finished rooms so that Dave could move in for the painting stage.
The main priority was the kitchen as the units were due next Monday but for some reason the bathrooms were finished first and we could not start in the kitchen until Saturday morning so it was all very rushed and stressful.

Anyway after a lot of hard work and some advice from the gibstopper who was clearly worried about what we were going to do to his amazingly perfect walls, we first gained a white kitchen ...

... and then a caramel one. The photo really does not show off the room in its full caramelly glory but neither does it do justice to its wonderful smooth finish.