T - 3 weeks ...

For those of you who enjoy a good panic, we will move in a little under 3 weeks and have:
no kitchen
no library
no doors
no dressing room
no front door
no satellite dish
no patch panel
no car port
no driveway
no front path
...

But the skirting boards are nearly finished upstairs, so we can relax on that front.

T - 5 weeks and counting

We are moving in on 15 February, which is not far away.

Right now we have lovely oak floors on the ground and first floor of the house.

Oak parquet/parkett floor looking from the dining room into the living room

The craftsman laying them worked on his own across the winter break and has done a great job.  The colours don't look very nice on the web ... sorry about that.

We still don't have any bathroom furniture, a kitchen, any doors, a dressing room, any shelves, a front door, etc. but the house was busy today when I popped down.  I will check again tomorrow and see how the tiler, metal worker and fine plasterer are getting on.

We chose the wood for the terrace and balcony today - Siberian larch, which is, according to the source of all wisdom and lies, ideal for velodromes and mine props.