Conservatory painting

We decided that the conservatory/orangery woodwork would look much more in keeping with style of the cottage if we coloured the wood rather than using wood stain.

We chose Farrow and Ball French Grey shade of paint, very nice quality paint to use, but a very laborious task given the amount of wood and window frames that will make up the basis of the room. (Thanks to Hubby for the many hours he has spent in preparation of the wood and painting, in a very chilly garage x)

More Garage Tidying

As we needed to make space in the garage for timber wooden window frame painting to commence, we had a clear out of items we had collected, no longer required.

Two old pine doors which had succumbed to damp and mildew together with an old white glazed hall door were advertised on Freecycle, and were requested almost immediately, collected and taken away, as was a ladies bike which was not used very often.

Hubby demolished the remaining piece of yard wall, to make way for conservatory building, Victorian red bricks and coping stones were advertised once again on Freecycle, and a chap collected them the following day to make use of them in his garden for a footpath. (much easier for us than renting a skip for construction rubbish)

Conservatory/orangery planning

We have decided to construct a room at rear of the sitting room, 3m x 3m, with hardwood painted windows and dwarf brick wall, with french doors leading outside.

Our options are regarding the roof...because of the different height levels of the existing roof on bathroom extension, we are very limited for head height with a normal polycarbonate conservatory roof type structure, not allowing very much fall for rainwater to the gutter.

A second option would be a constructed roof with black tiles similar to those on existing roof, but we think this type of structure will require building regulations acceptance. Third and most likely choice will be a roof lantern fitted into a flat roof.  This type of construction is normally fitted to an "Orangery" style of building, but given the small square metre size of our room, will it still be a conservatory? a sun room? or a mini organgery?