[cont...]

This is the next stage, a bay window:



This is what caused me the most worry. I've not seen a lot here and was worried that I might not have been explicit enough in my instructions to the builders on exactly what it is I wanted. You can see in the background what was the front door, that is going to be removed and a full wall put in place.

Needn't have worried because the support structure for it went up in no time at all and exactly according to my plans.

We're going to put a 'built-in' sofa in the bay window area that doubles as a storage box. The doors to the right (below) I'm not yet sure about... remove them and put shelving or keep them, get them stripped, sanded and lacquered? Same area snapped from the inside:






As you can see from the 2nd pic the brickwork has blocked-off what used to be an opening to our front porch. Now this is interesting, clearly the brickwork is pretty rough and was only ever intended to be covered with the usual, smoother, interior plastering/concrete stuff. However the more I look at it the more I'm convinced to simply leave it.

Kinda like a mini-feature wall, albeit very rustic. Also we're going to put shelving in there anyways for a book shelf so I think that it will look quite nice with a simple brick/concrete backing. I'd also flirted with the same idea for the other (porch) side of the wall:



But think that might be a bit too rough. So instead we're off to the shops tomorrow to try and find some nice tiles or something for there. I'm leaning towards something terracotta right now, perhaps even a relief of somesort?

[to be continued...]