Renovation Diary: Chapter Four

Reality bites...

Isn’t it amazing(-ly frustrating) how life just has other plans, even when you’re utterly determined to get going on something? I was so sure our garden room would be finished, okay, almost finished by now, but between Cleo injuring herself, the whole house coming down with a knockout virus and then me going away for a few days, it’s meant that despite best intentions we’ve not achieved much at all.

The old chicken or the egg, tetris situation is in full force. Pretty sure I need to get used to this being my life for the forseeable, don’t I? So much waiting.

I still haven’t pressed go on our windows (plus garden room door), as I hated the mockup of the front window, which threw me into a tailspin. Aluminium frames, are currently as thin as they can be, and that’s limited due to limited strength, unlike steel which is stronger and can therefore be thinner, and also usually more expensive, but the problem with aluminium is as soon as you add window openings, it basically doubles the thickness of the frame. Our big front window, which will very much be a feature, will be nine panes, and we wanted the top three to be openable with the bottom six fixed, but upon seeing the mockup my heart sank. The openable panes ruined the symmetry instantly. And it looked cheap. It didn’t look that dissimilar to what’s already there, and that is most definitely not the look we’re going for.