Before and After

Back to painting today so I thought I would post a couple of before and after shots.

Miles' room to be just after starting. For some reason there were no wardrobe doors when we moved in.

Nearly finished now with new wardrobe doors and ply down over the old floor boards. New skirting boards and blinds fitted. Just the carpet and new radiator to go.

The Big Storm

  Decorating was temporarily postponed last week after the unseasonably high winds hit Scotland and Northern England. We had gusts of over 80 mph on the East coast. All of the railways and high bridges were closed for a period of time with many of the roads blocked by fallen trees. As you can imagine the electricity network took a battering and so a few late nights had to be worked at my day job - if that makes sense.

  The Old Fishing Station also lost a few slates off the roof, a fence panel blew down, some guttering came down for the second time and the green house which Allison had been intending on refurbishing is in the picture. Probably fair to say it's past refurbishing!!!

Painting and deer

Well, after spotting two deer this morning in front of the house on the old river bed it has been back to the mammoth task which is painting. The whole house was in need of major redecoration amongst other things and we are slowly but surely making progress. The previous owners obviously liked blue emulsion, which we don't and white gloss, which we don't. We took the decision early on that we would replace all the skirting boards with the new ones being varnished rather than painted and that we would paint the walls in each room in turn. Today we are finishing off the feature red wall in Miles' room and starting the first of the letting rooms.

The Old Fishing Station

We hope to be able to keep this blog of the happenings at The Old Fishing Station. As the name suggests the building was used as a base for fishermen. There was a bothy where they would sleep, rooms for preparing the fish for onward travel and areas for repair / storage of the nets. We will endeavour to give more information on all this in due course. The building was converted to a house in the early nineties and we purchased it at the end of October last year. The house is situated on the edge of St Cyrus National Nature Reserve and a two minute walk from a long sandy beach.