Remodelling the bedroom

After spending a lot of time scribbling layouts on bits paper; it wasn't until a few of the new additions to the rooms (electrics etc) had started to go in that we got a sense of what the spaces were going to look and feel like. The one room that has had the most changes has been the master bedroom. As we are at a stage with the house where we can make major disruptive changes and look at future-proofing it for other eventualities, we spent a lot of time talking about how the room worked with the rest of the house. Because this is going to be our our 'sanctuary space' from all things work and business, we decided to put a few more things in place to allow it to have that feel. 

We have borrowed a bit more space from the main corridor to enable a new lobby like entrance in the main room, making the room feel more spacious:

We have installed an en-suite, borrowing the doorway from the old toilet door in the bathroom: 

As the en-suite will be quite a dark space we got Jim to introduce a new window opening, that is now very in keeping with the rest of the external look of the property:

In the main quarters of the room, we have established two new openings:

On the left is an opening to a walk in wardrobe and the right is the new lobby into the room:

That's most of the major work done in this room now, some plastering to do then it's all ready for second fix plumbing and electrics

Ready for Reclaim

We have a huge interest in reclaimed materials and are blessed with the house and barns that they offer us a plethora in which to choose from. There is a lot of work to do to get the pieces up to scratch, but that's very much part of the whole process with this project. We are interested in celebrating what the buildings were and have been. It was sad that so many of the properties we looked at during our search had been stripped of their past. This was the #1 attraction of Clayhill - so much to celebrate! So much untouched!

We are on the hunt today for a door to replace the old woodstore:

Looking over in the barns we found a few that are able to be reclaimed: 

This is the one that was the ideal fit, so we will be stripping it back and getting it ready to install in the next few weeks:

There are endless possibilities that can be achieved with reclaim. I have lots of inspiration over on my pinterest boards and this is very much the aesthetic we're hoping to achieve over in the barns. We are big fans of Salvage Hunters and recent subscribers of SalvoWeb too. Somerset also has some *fantastic* salvage & reclamation yards. Our favourites locally are: Wells and Glastonbury.

The chicken shed is becoming quite the holding pen (ahem, excuse the pun!) for our finds of late - all of the wood we found left by a local farmer ready to be burnt - Noooooooo! We saved it from the rain and will be spending the sunny days soon knocking all the nails out: