We just had a great afternoon with Mick, our architect from Squirrel Design. With John having exposed all the walls and ceilings, Mick came up to have a look at what we needed to do… quite a lot actually! A new oak beam joists needs to be supported – the question is how. New roof supports needed to be created so that the ceiling could be vaulted. A wall needed to be underpinned to allow a raised earth bank to be removed, and a new floor needs to be put in below the foundations of the original barn. Nothing too challenging then!
I think involving an architect regularly is even more important with renovations. Mick had both the knowledge and experience to know what the best options were… things we hadn’t come across before, he had.
After several hours and a lot of tea and coffee we felt we had made huge progress and lots of decisions.
So an exciting time begins, that or reconstruction of a breathing, low VOC naturally renovated barn into a beautiful, fun, healthy building with another 300 years life built into it! And that’ just the first the buildings we will be tackling in this project.
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