House and garden...nearly.

I am using the term 'garden' very loosely here but there have been some developments at our house build which involve the marking out of a garden boundary. It is making me think that someone is looking down on us favourably and that I can dream a little about an actual garden.

These gabion baskets form a ha-ha at the end of our garden They hold back 1.5m of ground and the field falls away as a slope. The wall acts as a barrier to stop the sheep getting in the garden because  we didn't want a fence, hedge or trees to obscure our view. 

Do you see? You can't put anything in front of that now can you? This is the view from the grown ups bedroom window. A bit less farm (s)crap and a little more soil than before.

From downstairs in the kitchen we are starting to see how the garden will really feel like another room in our house.

The large angled picture window in our bedroom was thought up by my late dad when he designed the house. It perfectly frames the view, how did he know that?

Other windows are getting a bit of TLC too. The girls went round and scraped all the stickers from the windows. They are good little helpers.

Stepping back from that window, I decided to paint the end wall in the lounge blue. It was going to be white but every time the dog heard the front door open or a car go past he jumped up at the window cill and the wall was filthy before we had even thought about living there!

 I love it. It is a rich blue called Dulux easycare sapphire salute which looks good with our old furniture. I have wiped off dusty paw prints so far and it came off well.

Other notable improvements are the completion of the bathroom except we don't have hot water but it is all ready to go.

The stair case is now finished, but not quite in this picture. We have been trying to train Beano to stay downstairs to stop him mucking up the white paint upstairs - it requires us to remember to close the bedroom doors just in case.

So lots has been done, lots more to do but slowly slowly...

Thanks for dropping in. Hope you are all well. Jo xxx