Red & BBs retirement home......

[korvin karbon]

lovely pics, i am green with envy but also liking the ideas you have given me if i win this contract i am chasing

Are all of the fireplace chimmneys clear? just a thought that popped into my head.

 

[British Red]

lovely pics, i am green with envy but also liking the ideas you have given me if i win this contract i am chasing

Are all of the fireplace chimmneys clear? just a thought that popped into my head.

Four of them are,

the one in the kitchen is covered (but accesible)

The stoves should be in a few weeks for the downstairs fireplaces

That stupid concrete plinth in the study (you can see it with red paint in the photos above) needs to be cut out - which will be a game cos its been cast in place on metal

Cue the angle grinder

Red

 

[British Red]

Well, the decorating is coming along

Here's the kitchen.....the green has grown on us but it was a bit of a shock at first!

This is the bedroom - if you look back earlier - this is the floor we had to remove entirely

Downstairs from that bedroom is the lounge - now with all mod cons (like a ceiling)

The bathroom looks nice I think - the blue and raw stone work

The study is coming on too............you can just see where the "shelf" in the fireplace has gone...reasy for plastering and woodburner

Clearly most of the floors need finishing and the fires have to go in....and we still have to work on the drainage,,,,,,,and theres lots of boxing in to do.......and carpets in the other bedrooms .......and....I'll stop now...I'm getting depressed

Red

 

[Cegga]

:wow1: :wow1: :wow1: :wow1: :wow1: fantastic :wow1: :wow1: :wow1: fantastic
What a place you have
Cegga

 

[British Red]

You will be welcome any time Cegga - now you need a fire to sit beside sooooo


The Ironheart is in :dance :dance

And a woodburner is in the study (plus the floors are stained now too)

Guess what my axes will be feeding?

Red

 

[dogwood]

Red,

It's looking GREAT. Thanks so much for sharing the photos. You two are going to be very happy there, I'm sure.

 

[John Fenna]

Looking Good!

 

[pwb]

Love the Esse Red.

Home is where the Ironheart is .

Your sure going to be busy with the logs .

Pete.

 

[BorderReiver]

Still enjoying the progress pictures, keep 'em coming please.

 

[Cegga]

You will be welcome any time Cegga - now you need a fire to sit beside sooooo

Thanks
I bring the axe you have to hold the wood
Maybe a sharp things market on you plot
When all are ready
Cegga

 

[scrogger]

Stunning Red that is a lovely place to call home.

 

[lou1661]

Hi Red and BB,
How is the new place going? Have you moved away from the land of green beer already?

Best wishes
Louis

 

[harryhawk]

It was on my mind to ask and see how the renovations were going?
Us bushcraft lot can be a bit nosey!!

 

[British Red]

Hi Red and BB,
How is the new place going? Have you moved away from the land of green beer already?

Best wishes
Louis

Hi Louis!

We're still down for work in the week but up at the new place as much as possible

The inside is pretty much "there" although I still have lots to do in terms of upstairs curtains, bathroom shelves and the like! The grounds and outbuildings give me scope for a few years of hard slog really

You would be very welcome for a tour of the windmills and salt marshes when you find yourself up that way

Heres a few pictures: in reverse chronological order!

Our moving in day!

The Dartmoor ponies in the field behind ours

The Shire foal who hadn't seen snow before!

Dinner!

My buddy Chris came round for home made christmas pud - cooked the proper way

Lincolnshire winter

New gate shut - "Get orf my land"

Kettle's on!

Dawn at home

Our bedroom

Guest Room

Even a working kitchen!

Well I hope you get the idea mate!

Its nothing "posh" just like us - but its comfortable and its home

Red

 

[lou1661]

Hi Red and BB,
It Looks cracking! i can well understand why you would be up there as much as possible, if im ever passing by i would like to have a bimble, how far off is the new local?
Louis

 

[Melonfish]

This looks amazing red! can't say how incredible it all looks i'm so jelous!
all those woodburners, the amazing flooring and the work thats generally gone into that place is quite astounding, why on earth didn't you get it all televised m8 you'd have made a mint off the tv company and had half the country drooling for the good life
its just looking amazing, i reckon you should put together some before/after shots just to show how much has gone into the place
Pete



edit: just realised you have a dishwasher, some mod cons are just too valuable man, like the rest of us you'll spend all day chopping your own wood but scream at the thought of washing a dish

 

[British Red]

Thanks for the kind words all

Louis - nearest pub is about the same distance as here...not such a good pub though

That said though, one of my neighbours booze is great! Grows his own hops, has a proper cellar and a beer engine in the hall to pump it up from! He also has four early series Landrovers so I suspect you'll get on

Oh yeah - you are right about the dishwasher Pete. This is a home so, whilst we've been "sympathetic" to the style to keep it in, it has to be practical. A good example is the heating. Yes we have woodburners and fire places and we use them, but we also have a calor gas combi boiler hidder inside a wooden cupboard with a suffolk latch!

If I come in after a couple of days away I don't want the place freezing!

Red

 

[drewdunnrespect]

my god thats georgous mate well done well jealous

 

[eraaij]

What a grand place! Loved the photo shoots - lots of effort went into that. Thanks for documenting it.

-Emile

 

[Wilderbeast]

looks really lovely mate, really very nice and peaceful!