Planning to study

It was another beautiful day to wake up to this morning, with the sun shining through a few disparate white clouds and the air feeling warm and almost spring-like. But it felt like there was a change in the air, and we know the forecast shows that temperatures will be dropping over the coming days, so we are bracing ourselves for a cold spell.

We took the Christmas decorations down earlier so the house is now looking quite bare, however, it has energised us to start planning our next projects.

We have two main projects we want to complete before spring arrives. One is the salon, although we think this will be done in small chunks of work, and the other is the library, which I think we are now both quite excited to get started on. We call it the library as that is what it was when we bought the house. It’s a small room at the side of the salon, which you can access the outside courtyard from, or you can access the cloakroom we created from the larger bathroom/laundry room. We insulated a couple of the walls when this work was done, so the old bookshelves of the library had to be removed. We now plan to replace them and to create a study/office area, to include a desk and storage area for filing.

We have always had a sofa bed in there, which has been used by family and friends when there’d been a lot of us in the house. It has proved quite useful in the past, so we are planning to keep it, and will work this into the room. The pictures above are sketches of our early thoughts.