Traditional building methods

Scotland beating France 1-0 at football? That's something you don't see very often.

Here's another thing you don't see very often


It's the new dining room and it's looking far from finished.

The wall to the left of the picture is called a "stud partition" and consists of wooden beams with wee strips of wood called lath attached to them. The plaster is applied to the lath and sticks to it.

Well, usually it does, but as you can see here it's all fallen off. The wall to the right of the picture didn't have any lath - the plaster was stuck straight onto the stone and, again, it's all fallen off.

Looking a bit less like a bomb site...


we have the function room nearing completion. The new bar is taking shape and the cornicing and ceiling are pretty well complete. We have to decide on colours. Soon.

Ages ago I promised you pictures of the bathroom of Room 5.

and here it is. The lighted mirrors are very pretty and less than £100 each. Available from lighting styles if you fancy one.



The bath looks pretty good as well. We'll be closing in November to complete the renovation of the other two bathrooms and the rest of the rewiring of that side of the building. Room 9 on the other side of the building will be made ensuite and the gents toilet on the ground floor will be getting renovated.