Fronting up to arcs & skirts

Here is the new front door, with windows through the centerline of the house that are also aligned with the bathroom windows on the opposite centerline of the house.  At the summer & winter solstices, the sun will have the opportunity to shine straight through the entire house.  It will be interesting to see if it actually happens!

Here you can also see that the architraves & skirting boards are going in.  Wonder what will be next?

 

Let's get plastered

This time when the plasterers arrived, it was full steam ahead!  Now when we walk around the house, we are really starting to get a feel for what it will be like - how big the rooms will be, how the light will be in each of them and what each of them feels like.  For example, the master bedroom in the southwest corner feels very very settled whereas the meditation room in the northeast corner has a feeling of lightness & liveliness.  In the picture below, you can see where we will one day be cooking our meals, looking out over the park to the east...