September 2012 update
During the trip to our house in France, the last for this year, we made a little more progress on the final finishing works to upstairs area of the house. This time around we took a couple of enthusiastic volunteers, or son Nic and a friend of our James.
After taking time out on the first day we set about laying parquet flooring to the two smaller bedrooms. James lead on the project teaming up with Nic on laying the boarding. I got the "easy" job of cutting the boards to size. We spent two days completing the bedrooms and into the landing area before running out of material. Off to Leroy Merlin to see if we could get a couple more packs but as is the way in France we left empty handed. Fortunately we were able to order the extra packs for collection next year.
We had decided before going out to France that we would treat all the skirtings and door frames with Danish oil. Di had spent the previous few days doing this so next job was fixing skirtings to the bedrooms and bathroom. James did and another excellent job on whilst Di and Nic painted the main Bedroom. We built up the double bed for the middle sized bedroom and built up a double wardrobe, a chest of drawers and two bed side tables.
Once the door frames were oiled any doubts we had in using it evaporated. The natural look of the skirting and frames against the white walls and doors was exactly the contemporary look we were hoping for.
Having been attacked two nights running by Hornets I decided to PV foam around the new door and window openings which they were managing to squeeze through. That was not before I had captured six of the blighters using a coffee and releasing them.
Last job before we left after seven days was to treat some of the remaining original timbers with wood work treatment and fit the remaining Georgian bars to the windows.
A long and busy week punctuated with a bit of site seeing, swimming in our neighbours pool and evenings spent playing cards that got more serious and competitive as the week wore on.
