Thread: A New Village House

This was my first view of Variation 1, as shown on post # 32, and was pleased with the decision

This is wood from the old house not suitable for reuse. The good stuff was used for the floor and front of the house. It apparent that we would need to buy more wood.

Wood for external cladding

Upstairs bathroom on left, 2 small bedrooms and passage. I wish we could have left the upstairs like this - open on all sides !

Main bedroom with nice large windows

Bedroom view

Upstairs bathroom

Variation 2, also proposed by the Builder, is what I call a skirt roof. See the steel work just above the downstairs windows. The roof prevents rain from running down the wall onto the windows and provides additional shade to the downstairs concrete walls and windows. In my opinion shade is one of the best ways to avoid a hot house.

Variation 2

Living room and a spare room. The area behind the Manager is for the internal stairway

Living room from the other view. The kitchen is to the left

The start of the external stairway. The first landing makes a nice deck.

The outside stairs looking down onto the deck

Balustrade to the second landing

looking good, progress ....

Originally Posted by pominasia

I wish we could have left the upstairs like this

you could have done, it is your build

Walls from inside

Walls from outside

Upstairs doorway entrance

Shuttering for the upstairs bathroom floor

Nice big house mate, love the extensive use of wood. Nice stuff.

Concreting the upstairs bathroom floor

Upstairs bathroom walls