Making Progress

Although I haven’t been very good at reporting on the barns converting recently, work on the barn has been going on a pace. Having done all the grotty stuff dad has taken over the reigns to do the stuff that needs a little more care and attention.

Some of the wooden walls and stalls and mangers have been removed to open up the space.

Then it began to go white, walls, stalls and the ceiling

painstakingly sprayed white. It has to be said that if I had been involved with this bit the floor would likely be sprayed white too!

The hebe at the back has been cut back – hard – so that the light can now come in through this back window and the bars smartly blackened.

It’s really beginning to take shape.

The electricity has been reconnected and three strip lights and umpteen plug sockets installed.

Dad oiled up the enormous gate and has re hung that, so that the gallery retains it’s barn-ness and enables us to change the interior space from time to time.

Panels have been hung on the far wall to make hanging pictures easier but they leave the wall exposed in between as you can see.

The stalls at the other end have had new tops to the partitions that echo the central one that you can see in the previous picture. The tethering chains have been blackened and re hung.

Through the square window

The barn has a smart new front door and over the next couple of days the floor will be painted. With just two weeks to go before we open it has been all hands on deck and I spent yesterday afternoon strimming (or ‘scalping’) the yard so that it looks tidy and mum has been potting up plants and arranging flower pots and tubs along the wall.

But the first visitors arrived ……..

.... And were promptly shooed back out again! There are other barns for nesting in, perhaps they can join the maternity (we’re still awaiting the new arrivals) ward in the Green barn. These large, and getting larger, ladies could do with some entertainment.