Sunshine
At last! Glorious sunshine and lovely weather, and how long have we been waiting. Mind you, the late frosts we’ve been having seem to have ‘extended’ Spring, and as it’s my favourite time of year, that’s been a bit of a bonus! We’ve move stone fireplace carving outside, and we’re all working out in the sunshine today. It’s so much easier, and unquestionably more enjoyable, to be making our stone fireplaces out in natural light. It makes the final finishing of the stone so much easier because there is no better light than full, unfiltered, natural light.
We’re also working on a very large stone staircase at the moment, and it was proving quite difficult to fit it all into our workshop. We’ve now moved that outside too, and it makes life a whole lot easier. I visited a lovely project last night. It was a beautiful half timbered house that had been dismantled piece by piece and re-erected by the owner about 1/2 a mile away as it used to lie directly in the middle of the current M40. It is part of a rebuilt traditional farmyard, and we are trying to come up with a suitable and correct stone coping for the wall that goes around the farmhouse. The house is only about 700 yards from the motorway, and yet there were wild deer in the garden last night eating low hanging leaves from the trees… wonderful!
Today i have to look at a stone surround for a kitchen range. It’s an old grey and quite ugly thing, and the customer would like to replace it with something less gloomy. I’m sure we can provide something just perfect!