The rebuild begins!

Hooray, we are starting to put the house back together!  Charlie from CEB Property Maintenance has been in and put in a damp proof course in the bedroom, filled in the hole in the dining room floor and has lifted the living room floor.  He said the living room floor was dangerous and was only a matter of time until someone fell through it!  He is back today to replace the joists and the new floor goes down on Monday - yay!  After that he can get the woodworm treatment done and that's his job done.

Off camping to Aviemore this weekend but going to have a look in on our way home on Sunday.  Back to school Monday :-( and my baby starts school Tuesday :-((

Photos as promised!

Original wood cladding and Victorian fireplace upstairs!

Wood paneling on stairs which was hidden under ply!

Wood paneling upstairs

The door I thought was a 60's door...

It was the original cottage door covered up!!

Partitions between study, bathroom and bedroom now down.  I love my new tool - a crowbar!!

We are still here!

Sorry I have been a bit lax at my blog!  We had 2 fantastic weeks in Italy  (thanks Claire and Andy!) and have been busy pulling down all the lath and plaster walls at the house so not had much time for blogging.

We have been told by the builder that the kitchen is unsafe and needs to come down.  We were not expecting this but no point plastering up the (very huge) cracks.

Downstairs the external walls are totally exposed.  We discovered more beautiful wood paneling underneath plasterboard and ply.  The boys room is totally wood paneled which looks fab!  We uncovered a fireplace upstairs complete with ironwork.  Michael gave it a nudge and it fell apart!

Thank you also to our dad's who really deserved their trip to the Three Kings for a cider after filling an enormous skip!  After the skip was filled I had a day on my own and uncovered the original cottage doors upstairs - they are fab and even have the marks where the original large hinges have been.  Photos to follow!

Next quilt!

When we are not at Cullen I am working on a new quilt.  I love the way they go together, building up the blocks bit by bit!

Where do we start!

Not sure my dad is too impressed!

Fireplace in dining room

Michael stripping the dining room

The lovely shutters!

Kitchen

Well we have started to pull the lath and plaster off the walls.  The wall in the kitchen looks worse now the plaster is off!  The dining room has a great fireplace and we uncovered the original shutters in there too.  It looks like we will have all the original shutters downstairs.  We are a bit disappointed with the fireplaces in the living room and bedroom - I was hoping to uncover a treasure!

And the demolition continues!

We have come across lots of great history in the house this weekend.  Wood panelling has been uncovered on the staircase and the boys bedroom.  The fireplaces are disappointing, they have been badly damaged when they have been covered up.  Michael pulled off a panel from a door and found the original underneath!  Pity it is so badly damaged.  There was lovely painting on the panelled doors and we also found it on the living room wall!  In behind another panelled door we found a piece of what we think was part of an RAF kit box from WW2.  It has the name SGT Marland written on it but we cannot make out anything else.  Google has brought up 2 Sgt Marland's neither of whom lived in Scotland but both flew with the RAF in WW2!

Michael also met with another joiner yesterday who told us the reason for the ceiling being lower in the centre of the house was because that was where they stored their fishing nets!  I love uncovering the stories!

The mess, the mess!

Kitchen is out, carpets are up, I know it's going to be a lot worse before it gets better!