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Beams and blocks

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Blocks and beams

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Moving mountains

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Burying the foundations

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Saxon times at Wychwood

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Good weather

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A visit to Carpenter Oak

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Staffordshire blues

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A mudlock

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More walls - and a lot of mud

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The first wall

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Pinning down the exact spot

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Foundation trenches

The weather improves, and trenches get dug.

The new house build blog

Today (14 January 2017) I decided to set up a blog, to report progress on our new house. This first post is a brief catch up covering the last 2 years. 1 October 2014 – This is the day I first contacted George Batterham of Batterham Matthews Design, who quickly became our chosen architect. I had found his company by tracking down the architects of this spectacular house – Cranham Lodge in the Cotswolds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp6KpgRKDLE George soon came up with a set of sketches – some more whacky than others, but we rather liked the idea of curves. We quite quickly settled on the basic design – with a curved outline with about half of the footprint single storey half two-storey. Like the Cranham Lodge house the living area would be open-plan, with oak "trees". 24 February 2015 – George and I had our first meeting with one of the Bromsgrove planning officers, Helena Plant. It turns out to...

The fence that went for a walk

(with apologies to Andy Goldsworthy) The picket fence that was once a dog compound, and then walked up the field to become a vegetable patch, has now walked back down to become a side to the driveway. We'll tidy up the bank once all the building work is done.

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