Upstairs rooms becoming better defined

Despite the weather, tehre has been a lot of visible progress in the last few days.

Clair standing in front of the top of the staircase - bathroom in background

Main bathroom with large saw already in place

View throught the doorway into child's bedroom.  It looks like he's moved in already

The scaffolders have also installed the provisional staircase which saves clambering around on ladders and through trap doors.

View from the bedroom window

There was a break in the rain over the weekend and I took the chance to climb up onto the upper scaffolding gantry. 

View from what will be our bedroom window

The view across the Riedsbach looks really pretty (apart from te uilding site rubbish in the corner).  I wonder how it will look if/when the houses get built in the new development over there.

Meanwhile, back at the allotment, I established that (i) damp apple tree branches don't burn very well, and (ii) the annoying couchgrass I pulled up was one f the two sweetcorn seend which had actually germinated.  At least all the potatoes (Laura) have made it above ground level now.

Colour scheme selection

Yesterday we made some progress working on colours of exterior surfaces.

The exterior sliding panels to cover the windows will be woven with willow to match the surroundings.  After looking at steamed, peeled, smoked, natural (coarse) and natural (fine) and keeping all five samples out in the rain, sun, snow and wind for the best part of a year, we have chose the peeled willow (I think).  In the picture it is the second one down.

Woven willow sampler for sliding window covers (Schiebeläden).  Colours are, from top to bottom, steamed, peeled, smoked, natural (coarse) and natural (fine)

We also chose the colour of the window frames (there were many [50-ish] shades of grey to choose from - we went for zeltgrau) and the type of wood.  We also made an initial selection for the upper floor plastering but it is hard to describe (pale handbag) and not a final choice yet.

The curved concrete wall has been revealed - basically it is lovely, but there are some bits of cosmetic adjustment to made in a couple of area.

Shuttering for curved wall in exposed concrete

On the ground floor there is a curved wall with a small window in the middle.  The curve is a complex shape and the wall will be made of exposed concrete (Sichtbeton), so the shuttering has taken a long time to design and build.

The inner sufraces of the shuttering are formed from a bendy plastic sheeting, which is held up against the faceted wooden infrastructure.

It should be poured this week.

Inner surface of shutering exposed

Exterior of curved shuttering