Just starting - Mar 2007

First step was to clear the garden and create somewhere to live in whilst the building works to the main house were being undertaken.

Decided that rather give money to a landlord, I would create an additional building onsite first which could be used for temporary housing and then transformed into office/library space after. A garden office being the obvious choice. The actual building chosen was a Lugarde Ruben Log Cabin http://www.lugarde.nl/english/index.html This provides some 20 square metres of space (In light of the building's size full planning permission had been sought and granted by the local Council).

So, this stage involved the

a) removal of everything in the garden,










b) laying a new concrete foundation for the log cabin



















c) construction of wooden building




















d) treating the building outside against rot/woodworm

e) treating the inside of the building inside and out

f) painting the outside










g) construction of new fencing to property boundaries.










This work takes the whole of March 2007 to complete.



Hopefully the pictures do it justice!