Taking shape

Ian's week away slipped by, and suddenly he was back – and so were the offspring. When the latter were last at home, we were in a frenzy of loft-clearing prior to the start of work, and all they'd had to go on were photos and the earlier posts in this blog. So they – and Ian – were eager to see the progress for themselves.
The room is starting to take shape...

Looking into the corner of what will be our bedroom, at the gable end

  

The bathroom will be to the right; the dressing-room to the left

But it was clear that the main attraction was the temporary balcony afforded by the scaffolding.

and the view, which I believe I have probably mentioned, once or twice.

In the week that followed the mass return, Andy and Mike got on and finished laying the new wooden joists. And the carpenter who's building the staircase visited again to finalise the position of the top-floor landing (which Andy needed to know, for the joists and floor).
We're at the point where we have to make some decisions. Always tricky! (For example, we did think about having glass walls in our little eyrie, but we've decided against it.) So we've confirmed how many lights and sockets we want – that sort of thing. We also decided to change the two pendant lights on the first-floor landing for four recessed lights. Might as well get that sorted out now, while there's no difficulty in pulling up the floor of our nice, new loft room! 

Ian and Andy check the plans