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Sounds good, great that you're using some local/found materials. I'm sure you're on to this already but high reflectances will offer better brightness thus driving down energy. If any of those darker finish rooms end up feeling gloomy i'd suggest introducing some lighter surfaces over adding extra lighting. For the big room you might want to think about a more neutral colour temperature (3-4000K) for the fittings you would likely only have on in the day. 2700K can be quite yellow in the daytime.
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That’s really useful, thank you. There’s white mdf windowsills going in too so hoping that will lift it a wee bit. Really tempted to find a bit of live edge to use for a few of the windowsills though.. Sorry, I’m not up on this at all, is that bulb temperature?
@spotter we went with a natural coir one from here;
https://www.commercial-matting.net/ seems tough and like it will last a while, but I would consider going for the synthetic if I was to buy again because this feels like it may molt a lot..Bit of a photo dump upcoming, had some really good things and really frustrating things happen over the last few days but keeping on keeping on, we’re almost there..
Render finally arrived and went on the final gable on Thursday, and then slipped off when 60mph winds and really heavy rains arrived Friday, spent our anniversary up scaffolding in wind and rain scraping the last of it off, bit of a blow that..
However, yesterday the digger showed up and fortunately did the stuff in the lower bit of the field first, we had a ton of rain forecast overnight and he said that would have been just boggy and unmanageable this morning. They spent today working their way up the hill and digging the waste and drainage around the house!
Joiner has been stuck fixing a family barn but says he’ll be back as soon as he can. He showed up Monday to get the barge boards in and the scaffolding down for the drainage starting today.
I’ve just been continually sealing tiles or grouting, or scrubbing grout or mopping with any time I’ve had. It’s very close to done though!
Have had a couple positive chats, but, no concrete answer from the grant technical team about how the heat pump can be controlled or managed in an off grid system. They seem to think it should be manageable and I found out it can be controlled by hive or nest so there must be a way to, somehow..?
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Thanks very much, it’s feeling more like a home inside with the floor coming together. Here’s a sketch we’d done years ago which kind of shows it. We’re going to have a few spotlights above the worktops on the wall side of the kitchen and a wall mounted light the other side of the door into the porch, a bit of driftwood with 3 or 4 bulbs on cables wrapped around it hanging above the lid of islandy worktop, two big lights up in the vaulted space and some up and down lighters on the walls in the middle of each gable so hoping we should have enough different lighting ambiences for the different weathers. We’re just going with recessed spotlights in the bedroom and bathroom and just a standard pendant light in the utility, office and porch. The big lights we’re making from whisky barrel staves which I think will project a really nice shadow
Actually got callouses on my knees from all the kneeling over the past few weeks but almost there..