Coming back to the house in March, we had no idea it was going to be the driest, hottest Irish summer in recorded history.
It more than made up for 2012.
I forgot to mention in the 2012 entry that the downstairs ceiling - the underside of the upper floor - got painted (it used to be black). Mike carried on with some more brightness on the wood paneling on the side of the stairs.
There was some structural stabilization to be done under the upper floor, then Mike got stuck into the long, painstaking job of tiling the living room floor, installing electric cable underfloor heating as he went.
And some more painting (after completely re-facing the back wall of the fireplace)...
bringing us ever closer to our dream of a real living room.
Upstairs. These photos may be earlier than 2013, because we have roll-up shades on most of the skylights now, and curtain rods over most of the windows. It's still a very bright room to sleep in, but that just encourages us to keep more to daylight hours and less to musicians' hours.
