Windows, doors and details

Hello again. It's Sunday evening and this is where we are at. The builders cracked on with things at the end of the week and got quite a bit more stone work up which when I look at how they do it really is a skilled job. Each of the stones is hand-picked for its size which will depend where it will go. The stone the builders have used is a great match and the extension to the house is almost seamless.


Then on Friday the windows and doors arrived. I've only briefly seen the windows but looking at these patio doors the moulding looks really good and solid.

We've got the dormer windows going in tomorrow. The joiner, Phil, had to build a new carcass for the dormers as we wanted them to be as good a quality as the extension and we didn't just want to do a patching up job.

Anyway, as an antidote to the chaos at home we went to one of the NGS Open Gardens near us which was a delight and very inspiring for when we turn our attention to our garden - probably next year and beyond. They said it had taken almost 25 years to get it looking like it does today. So only another 21 years for us and we've cracked it! Anyway, if you're in the area, check it out as it is a lovely garden with great views across the Vale of Pickering and the Wolds - http://www.jacksonswoldgarden.com/

The images above are of our own garden. The thing I come away with when I visit these open gardens is that mass planting does have the wow factor. We have a mass of poppies this time of year in our garden which always look spectacular. You can see them from quite a distance when you are walking up to our house from the village.